would you like some Mayo with Chicken and Vino?

[margo49]

Margo, I think the town is Giriona

Yeah, that's the one.
Silly Mummy!

[KnottedYet]

I have patients who take Epo (post cancer and such). They are monitored very closely to be sure they aren't damaging their bodies. Who is monitoring the athletes bodies to be sure they don't damage themselves with Epo?

Or are they just taking the stuff willy-nilly?

[Fredwina]

I have patients who take Epo (post cancer and such). They are monitored very closely to be sure they aren't damaging their bodies. Who is monitoring the athletes bodies to be sure they don't damage themselves with Epo?

Or are they just taking the stuff willy-nilly?

My impression is Willy- nilly, There has been several young riders that have died in their sleep - rumor was massive Heart Attack due to too thick blood. would Vino on top of the world in TT , then OTB be due to a bad blood match?(not a rhetorical question)

[smilingcat]

EPO usage is willy nilly mixed in with made up number for how much one should take. Obviously, some idiots will take more than the made up number cause they are desperate for a win? Others think they are invincible. Most know that the side effect is you DIE in YOUR SLEEP. But does it stop them? nooo...

Years ago, one gal told me " S**t (add my name here), if you want to win you need to take steroids. Everyone else is doing it...How else are you going to win?..." I'm not going to say anything else about the gal cause I don't want something to comeback and haunt me. Besides, we are both wayyy over the hill anyway. The ones who are nationally ranked today could be young enough to be my child age wise.

Yup. It's a sad sordid affair with the drug. But sometimes, I do wonder about UCI and their witch hunt.

Someone wanted to know why not the same level of "enforcement" in other sports and it finally donned on me. Other pro sports have players union. We don't in the cycling world. If the riders had a strong union, I'm sure the testing would be done more uniformly and under better control.

Sad about Vino, Ivan, Rassumusan, Riis, and all the rest. Screwed up health 10, 20 years down the road. It just isn't worth it.

smilingcat

[IFjane]

This article is several years old but is a chilling narrative of the life of a cyclist in the late 90's.

http://www.racelistings.com/rzone/ar....asp?recid=329

The author is from "here" & went to high school with my oldest...