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I saw that on cyclingnews just now. I just can't understand why they think they have an advantage when all of the teams and agencies are coming down on everyone about this to stop the doping. That is the quickest way to not have a job in cycling right now.
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08-11-2008, 05:45 AM #1
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Girls dope, too
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Maria Moreno of Spain tests positive for EPO:
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?...g08/aug11news2
the only "good news": she didn't participate in the Road Race
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08-11-2008, 06:01 AM #2
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08-11-2008, 06:11 AM #3
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Stupid, stupid, stupid. I am actually happy to see so many busts though, maybe they will stop thinking they can get away with it.
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08-11-2008, 09:40 AM #4
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I totally agree.
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08-11-2008, 10:08 AM #5
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Naw, they'll just find new ways to do it that the detection technology hasn't caught up with, and unfortunately the year-round baseline testing means more people will dope year-round, with the concomitant side effects, rather than just before an event.
I still don't know where you draw the line. LASIK? That surgery the baseball pitchers have? Reconstruction of a knee ligament? Targeted nutrition? Lactate threshold or arterial blood gas testing? Sleeping in one of those hypoxic tents? It's all medical technology that gives a clear performance advantage. What exactly is wrong with EPO that couldn't be said about any of those things?Speed comes from what you put behind you. - Judi Ketteler
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08-11-2008, 10:36 AM #6
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It can kill you. Originally Posted by OakLeaf
Of course, one could die on the operation table, but that is somewhat less likely than a misuse of EPO leading to heart failure. http://www.rice.edu/~jenky/sports/epo.html
When Geneviève Jeanson (a former queen of female pro cycling, especially climbing) admitted to doping at every single one of her winning races with EPO for her whole career (despite strongly denying it until that day last year), she also explained how she was scared of dying when her heart rate would go dangerously low at night. When EPO first came around, lots of racers died in their sleep. At some point they figured out that they needed to have an alarm to wake them up every other hour during their sleep to avoid dying.
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08-11-2008, 11:33 AM #7
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She left before the RR. She knew it was over when they tested her July 31. She wasn't expecting that and was reportedly upset after she was tested. If she'd just been tested after the race, she'd have been in the clear. Glad the cheat was busted.
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08-11-2008, 11:53 AM #8
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I knew someone who talked about the benefits of EPO. Not that I was interested ..just amazed that she was thinking about it. Weird.
Then I found out from my pharmacist-sister about the dangers of EPO.
The sad thing is that the Internet still has both the wrong and right info. about EPO. So confusion continues to reign or some people are still stupid enough to court death.
