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Doping in Cycling

  • 25-07-2010 7:04pm
    #1
    RobFowl
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 11,669 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    I hope the Mods will indulge me here.

    I saw this from Greg Lemonds blog and remeber this cyclist well. I also remember usinng him as an example of how doping affects the sthelete and not just the result.

    Johannes Draaijer finished 19th in the TDF and was found dead in his sleep by his wife some months after.


    http://greglemond.com/blog/doping-and-those-we-love/


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  • #2
    petethedrummer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,604 ✭✭✭petethedrummer


    Are you trawling the clinic as well? I just got a link to Greg's blog from there.


  • #3
    RobFowl
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 11,669 Mod ✭✭✭✭RobFowl


    petethedrummer wrote: »
    Are you trawling the clinic as well? I just got a link to Greg's blog from there.

    Got it from a facebook link.

    I've given a few talks about doping and Johannes wasone guy I've mentioned in the past. Makes it more real to see the effects of doping on the familt not just the athete or the results.

    I've vested interests but it's more important to me to see the effets of doping on the athletes health rather than just the results...

    Is 19th place in the Tour worth dying for ???

    Indeed is winning it worth dying for........


  • #4
    ednwireland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,573 ✭✭✭✭ednwireland


    remeber hearing about this in the early 90's

    The mysterious deaths of 18 Belgian and Dutch amateur cyclists in the late 1980s and early 1990s offered the first suggestion that the doping stakes had been raised. EPO, a hormone that stimulated production of red blood cells, was first synthesised in 1975, and made widely available as a valuable weapon against anaemia, a common symptom of Aids.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/3666074/Vicious-cycle.html

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    https://www.ecowitt.net/home/share?authorize=96CT1F



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