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Tour de France winner 2006
floyd landis (i think) tested postive for drugs
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I was reading somthing the other day saying its almost impossible to be "clean" and compete at the top level in cycling.
i.e the're all taking something They just have to think of new and cleverer ways of concealing the performance enhancing substances. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/othe...ng/5221122.stm
Errmmm???? :? :? :? :? Don't all men have Testosterone already ( Except Dale Winton ) |
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hardly Ben Jonhson type stuff is it?! :shock: |
Yeah, all people have testosterone in their system, its the amounts they are worried about.
I know that Landis was on tons of Cortisone, and other steroids. This was because his hip was essentially rotting, and has been since he crashed about three years ago. (He is getting a new hip in a few months now.) Testosterone is another steroid. All of these "ones" look fairly similar to mass specs I think. Its possible that the abundance of cortisone in his system looked like Testosterone. Or... for some reason he actually had naturally elevated testosterone levels. Or, he was doping. Who knows. The longer I live though, the more glad I made the decision (or rather had it made for me due to being a bit crap) that I was not going to spend any more time trying to be a pro rider. Its all just very sad. It is possible to be clean and be a pro these days. It is just very very very difficult it seems. There is a culture of doping. For instance, your very own Chris Boardman was clean I have heard. I am not going to comment about Kelly or Roche :( |
Cyclists doing drugs?I don't believe a word of it. :lol:
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I think its a wonderful sport, that there is nothing else like it. Pro riders are really phenomenal athletes, tacticians and technicians all rolled into one. The suffering, and the levels of toughness that become your daily routine are unparralelled by any other sport. And the whole thing is becoming a laughing stock now. |
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Then it all came tumbling down in drugs. Pantani's suicide, the Festina scandal... :roll: I can honestly say I didn't sit down to watch 5 minutes worth of the Tour, this year. If someone told me 8 years ago I would be doing this, I'd laugh at their faces. :roll: |
Pantani
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/cyc...tani_ap-01.jpg Kelly (The Hard Man). http://outyourbackdoor.com/Images/pic.sean.kelly.jpg Merckx (The Cannibal) http://www.lequipe.fr/Xml/Cyclisme/D...ckx_1969_2.jpg LeMonde http://www.cyfronet.krakow.pl/rowery...e/roubaix2.jpg Just wanted to get back into a good mood a little. |
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