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I heard that Teide is hollow on the inside like a James Bond Villain's lair, and that its filled with Italian 'doctors' extracting and centrifuging the blood of infants as part of an elaborate sacrifice at the altar of Mithras. #marginalgains
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Not entirely true. Calms your nerves so you can perform under pressure.
This can be performance enhancing in lots of situations.
You also don't have to smoke it so there's no harm to your lungs.Slows the thinking, physical reflexes, really easily destracted, extreme hunger, blurred vision, spontaneous outbursts of laughter because that dog is SO funny, did you see it? Oh and a sudden predilection for dub. And staring at clouds
If the pro-peleton was using they'd be stopping at every patisserie. There'd be a riot at the feeding stations.
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Quaaludes are as good as an active recovery ride.
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Crystal meth for HIIT.
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We were talking about snowboarders and downhillers not roadies.
Road performance more likely dictated by climbing your arse up various mountains, snowboard and downhill performance more likely determined by descending like a maniac and not dying.
Still the image of the the peloton all stopping outside every bakers on the route is a fun one
And I'm still not sure it would help with descending, you'd likely get THE FEAR
Caffeine is definately a far more effective PED
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A few years ago there were articles about how Viagra was good for hilly rides. Probably helps to get up but not sure how it might help with descents.
moar aero?
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Still the image of the the peloton all stopping outside every bakers on the route is a fun one
And I'm still not sure it would help with descending, you'd likely get THE FEAR
Caffeine is definately a far more effective PED
Caffeine is an endurance performance enhancer.
Marijuana can enhance performance if it lets you sleep or calms you before a competition or steadies your hand when shooting or even makes you hungry so you can eat when previously you were too nervous to get enough food in. Then again WADA are pretty vague about why it's on their list. I think they added a bunch of recreational drugs simply because they were told to by goverment groups.
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Viagra or Chris Boardman induced erections are both folly.
The Dutch and German track cyclists trained at altitude before London 2012. Team GB didn't. They may have used Chris's tents but he's admitted in the past they might not work. Teun Mulder (who shared a bronze with in the Keirin) didn't join the rest of the Dutch team at altitude and he won stuff.
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The only way Boardman could induce an erection is because of the yawning.
The tent thing is utter sports "science" bollocks, no?
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The Dr. Leinders thing is disturbing, for sure. Not knowing him, I can't comment on his current attitude towards things. I don't know.
2009? Wiggo did not dope. You can say I'm wrong, but I'll stick with my statement on this, that I've made over and over...
2012 Sky? My opinion (not statement) is that they are not doping, based on VAM, power values, and information we have from Wiggins in 2009. Brad didn't ride much faster in 2012 than 2009, he just was more mentally consistent, the parcours suited him more, and he did not have the same competitors.
Again: My Opinion.... I'm sure we will all find out if it's right or wrong with time. As of today, i am just saying this is what I think. It may be proven wrong.
Posted this in the doping thread as well, it seems Jonhnny Vaughters did a little Q&A session in the clinic last night, picked out this tidbit. Important for me to believe that he does race clean, and there are few more qualified to judge than JV
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Vaughters wrote a great piece quite a few years ago for Cycle Sport ( I think) where he went into the reasons why a young rider might dope. It was a brilliant insight into the sport and it's pressures on young riders to come up with quick results to avoid being dumped by the sport.
I quote it (roughly) whenever people want to talk about how terrible it is that sportsman 'A' doped and how could he do it when he knew it was cheating.
Anyone else remember reading it, or is it online? It's particularly true now, seeing as he's come clean, and it is obviously written from first hand experience.
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He wrote something just weekend didn't he for the NYT or something similar?
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/12/opinion/sunday/how-to-get-doping-out-of-sports.html?_r=1
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Vaughters wrote a great piece quite a few years ago for Cycle Sport ( I think) where he went into the reasons why a young rider might dope. It was a brilliant insight into the sport and it's pressures on young riders to come up with quick results to avoid being dumped by the sport.
I quote it (roughly) whenever people want to talk about how terrible it is that sportsman 'A' doped and how could he do it when he knew it was cheating.
Anyone else remember reading it, or is it online? It's particularly true now, seeing as he's come clean, and it is obviously written from first hand experience.
[ame="http://www.scribd.com/doc/56420890/Drugs-Vaughters"]Drugs Vaughters[/ame]
From the numbers he's quoted about himself he was one of the guys who only would have got a teeny tiny bump from EPO as his HCT was at 48.5 compared to the 50 limit already, so if that's all he did without blood transfusions etc. why did he bother?
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the number of ridiculous rumors floating around now is insane. It's to be expected considering cycling's history, but it isn't reality.
He also said that, which hopefully means that the peloton is generally much cleaner than many suspect He also said that if he knew of doping going on he would blow the whistle to WADA, unlike in 2005 because he's not scared shitless anymore. Makes LA sound like the Scarface
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Surely the risk of being burny alive by hot lava in your sleep is a marginal loss set against the gain in altitude... i'd need a spliff to calm my nerves too.