Doping

With that Felicity Pendleton.

you're distracting me from reading about surbiton now.

Very interesting article on doping from 2003.

Everybody knows that many athletes cheat by using performance-enhancing drugs like steroids, testosterone, and EPO. But what is it like to take these banned substances? Do they really help you win? To find out, we sent an amateur cyclist into the back rooms of sports medicine, where he just said yes to the most controversial chemicals in sports.

http://outsideonline.com/outside/bodywork/200311/200311_drug_test_1.html

Cliff Richards...

No 's'.

I know that, you fucking divvy spakker.

Tynan = Joey Deacon

Fuck cycling, lets get ripped.

http://www.nissansilvia.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=431324

Tynan = Joey Deacon

Don't talk about my son like that.

dunno if this is a repost but makes interesting viewing: David Millar on doping
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/scotland/8785907.stm

full credit to him.

http://www.cyclingnews.com/features/thomas-dekker-a-dopers-desire-for-redemption

Not sure how much of this you can believe but he is not blaming pressure from his team.

Mealy mouthed rubbish.

If he was genuinely committed to a drug free support he'd name names, detail how he doped and explain how he beat the tests. Instead he avoids that and claims he's learnt a lesson and is very sorry, just as teams are starting to firm up rosters for next year when his ban ends.

Tynan = Joey Deacon

so who is Stan? (joey's mate who translated his belming)

I really don't appreciate Millar completely blaming others - at the end of the day it is still down to the individual.

He just doens't seem convinced himself... playing the innocent idealist.

Nah mate.

http://www.cyclingnews.com/features/thomas-dekker-a-dopers-desire-for-redemption

Not sure how much of this you can believe but he is not blaming pressure from his team.

On a second listen I would say this is mealy mouthed rubbish.
If he was genuinely committed to a drug free support he'd name names, detail how he doped and explain how he beat the tests. Instead he avoids that and claims he's learnt a lesson and is very sorry, just as teams are starting to firm up rosters for next year when his ban ends.

Suddenly the joke's worn thinner than a 15-year-old pair of bibshorts.

I never got it in the first place.

It's a mating ritual of sorts.

Inhalers contain corticosteroids...

The brown ones do. It's the blue ones you need for cycling. Several people have been busted for being over the limit on salbutamol (the active ingredient in your Ventolin inhaler), although the limit is huge if you are actually asthmatic and have a Therapeutic Use Exemption, far higher than you could get from an inhaler unless you took all 200 doses in one day ;-) All the alternative beta-2 agonist drugs are banned*, so salbutamol is your only choice if you're asthmatic and want to race.

*The 2010 WADA list now permits the use of Salmeterol with a TUE

That sucks because Salbutamol has little effect on me. I mean it stops my throat closing up but it does not help at all with lung capacity issues. And I refrain from using the steroids for fear of systemic effects.

Im never going to be worthy of real racing anyway. But I think for my next domestic level sporting venture I am totally going to DTFU on Ephedrine and massive quantities of the salbutamol.

http://www.sportsscientists.com/2007/11/effect-of-epo-on-performance-who.html

EPO use improved time to exhaustion by an enormous 54% within 4 weeks!

Want.

I know some of these links have already been posted but it's worth linking this site again. There's a huge amount of information contained here..
http://www.sportsscientists.com/search/label/Cycling

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/blog/blazin-saddles/article/1100/

hahahah!

You're quite outspoken about doping and you even testified in the Floyd Landis affair. Has it ever landed you in hot water?

I have an interesting relationship with Lance Armstrong via Twitter in that he's blocked, unblocked, followed, and unfollowed me several times this year - and when Lance is marking you on Twitter when he only follows a couple hundred people, well, if nothing else it's flattering. Unfortunately, when my name appeared on the witness list for the Landis arbitration in 2007, I had the disconcerting experience of receiving a death threat from a particular individual whom I knew very well.

The last comment is best, Lance won the 1996 Tour...

Were any riders not doped up to the eyeballs on the 96 Tour? If there were, I doubt they were more than just a few. My former teammate finished that Tour over three-and-a-quarter hours down on overall on GC, and he admitted to me on more than one occasion that he had to dope himself "up to the eyeballs" as you say - just to do domestique duties. JUST to be a domestique! And to lose over three hours!

Joe Papp's blog and twitter has always been great value. I think he's expecting/hoping to be summoned by the Feds and absolutely spilling his guts about everything. Keeps alluding to 'his list'

               self/auto-RT: if you think  you are on "my list" I urge you turn yourself in, b/c there's little  chance of leveraging anything later. [#doping](https://twitter.com/search?q=%23doping)                   [     8:47 AM Aug 19th](https://twitter.com/joepabike/status/21556760131)   via web        

'List of people Joe Papp needs to slap'?