Doping Article - Interesting Read

[meridian]

Drug Test

Sent to me from a co-worker after all the Tour de France doping disappointments.

Old, but interesting and informational read. With aid from a physician, an amateur cyclist dopes himself to help us understand what hold these drugs have over the sport of cycling.

Intro

"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."

[mimitabby]

thanks for posting that. Most interesting. And at the end he quit taking anything
and no bad effect from it!

[margo49]

Very interesting.

[RoadRaven]

I agree it was interesting, but didn't he kind've defeat the purpose by jumping on a tandem?

Wouldn't it have been easier/more sensible to measure differences if he had to ride ON HIS OWN?

DOH!
I think he put himself to all that nasty exposure to prove nyada, zip, zilch, nothing! Ijit...

[han-grrl]

Ditto on the interesting...

i know its all performance enhancing, but some athletes will ehmm, pump in someone else's PEE into their bladders in order to fool the testing. YECK!!!!!