European champion Valery Kaykov sacked for failing drug test

Capt'n Midnight

Since this is a new test is it a once off or will it be the usual tip of the iceberg ?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cycling/22111802

the Russian, who won European Track Championship team pursuit gold in 2012, tested positive for fat-burning drug GW1516.

The 24-year-old has also been suspended by the International Cycling Union (UCI), world cycling's governing body.

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He becomes the first athlete to be suspended for using the substance, which was withdrawn from research when it was found to cause cancer in rats.

Junior

Considering what the side effects of GW1516 are, this won't be the tip of the iceberg..

But the company abandoned further development in 2006 after tests on rats showed that at all doses, the drug rapidly causes cancers in a multitude of organs, including the liver, bladder, stomach, skin, thyroid, tongue, testes, ovaries and womb.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21729103.400-antidoping-agency-warns-athletes-of-black-market-drug.html

Peterx

Assuming there was someone who gave it to him;

This is surely a case where the administering doctor/soigneur/whoever should be imprisoned for reckless endangerment ~ it shows an absolute lack of morality to give such a clearly carcinogenic agent to a young lad.

Young lads are all invincible, they don't a rat's carcinogenic arse about risks 30 years down the line.

tunney

Peterx wrote: »

Assuming there was someone who gave it to him;

This is surely a case where the administering doctor/soigneur/whoever should be imprisoned for reckless endangerment ~ it shows an absolute lack of morality to give such a clearly carcinogenic agent to a young lad.

Young lads are all invincible, they don't a rat's carcinogenic arse about risks 30 years down the line.

Its something that's easily ordered off the net unfortunately

Capt'n Midnight

Junior wrote: »

Considering what the side effects of GW1516 are, this won't be the tip of the iceberg..

But the company abandoned further development in 2006 after tests on rats showed that at all doses, the drug rapidly causes cancers in a multitude of organs, including the liver, bladder, stomach, skin, thyroid, tongue, testes, ovaries and womb.

Well at least he won't have to worry about cancer of the womb

and Lance would only have half the risk of testicular cancer :pac:


It's back to the Goldman Dilemma

A key point here is that
elite athletes are different from the general population, especially on desire to win
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/20/phys-ed-will-olympic-athletes-dope-if-they-know-it-might-kill-them/

Only recently did researchers get around to asking nonathletes the same question. In results published online in February, 2009 in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, exactly 2 of the 250 people surveyed in Sydney, Australia, said that they would take a drug that would ensure both success and an early death. “We were surprised,” James Connor, Ph.D., a lecturer at the University of New South Wales and one of the study’s authors, said in an e-mail message. “I expected 10-20 percent yes.” His conclusion, unassailable if inexplicable, is that “elite athletes are different from the general population, especially on desire to win.”

uphillonly

Good article on Inner Ring:

http://inrng.com/2013/04/valery-kaykov-gw501516/

We learn far too much about the pharmaceutical industry as cycling fans!