Has Kenya found a super drug? 2021 Boston champ is one of 10 Kenyans to test positive for triamcinolone acetonide since 2021

Agreed. But your title "Has Kenya found a super drug?" is quite strange, since that "super drug" was already used by Armstrong.

Lets start with the connection between her and the other Kenyan busted -
Betty Wilson Lempus. Do they have the same coach? There must be a connection surely for both to be suspended at the same time for the same offence?

Good work from Gault to get an admission of guilt (or second hand admission). That should keep some of the doping apologists quiet who claim this was simply another careless Kenyan taking something inconsequential.

Triamcinolone acetonide IS something inconsequential in terms of performance enhancement.

Why don't you focus some of that foaming at the mouth anti African rage of yours into, for example, Paula Radcliffe's blood values? Or does that not interest you because she is British and white?

I’m just glad to finally see the truth come out that drugs are the reason so many Kenyans do well. Genetic superiority is a racist lie.

This is not a super drug and it is not new. I would bet most on this message board have used it topically for one rash or another. It is also fairly common in inhalers for asthma.

The question Gault should have asked is what does Demadonna plan to do with his cut of the Boston prize money? Assuming it has been paid out. He very succintly lays out the motivation for a Kenyan or anybody else from an impoverished background to dope to win life-changing money, but all those Italians (and Kim Macdonald back in the day) aren't over there in Kenya out of the goodness of their hearts. They profit tremendously from these athletes.

It's funny how the African doping apologists are saying this ped is inconsequential, yet have used Bradley Wiggins TUE for it as evidence that all British runners have been juiced to the gills in a state sponsored doping program since Harold Abrahams.

And why should I waste time on Paula Radcliffe from 20 years ago? If she was one of the few non Spanish Westerners on the EPO train, all it further shows is what EPO can do whatever the color of skin, and the complete and utter fallacy of the East African genetic superiority myth. How about you and your multiple throw away accounts show some concern over the weekly doping busts from Kenya that continue to make a joke of the sport? Well I guess whoever you are shilling for wouldn't like that.

This is the better question: Why are the Italian, Dutch, and British agents and coaches supplying this drug to Kenyan athletes in their camps?

this reminds me how much bs this site pushes

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Here is how and why it works…especially in endurance sports…

chemistryworld.com

Triamcinolone

Concluding our pair of podcasts on a recent cycling scandal, Ben Valsler looks at the corticosteroid triamcinolone

Link:www.chemistryworld.com/podcasts/triamc...

The bottom line is you can't win without cheating. The races are just too damn competitive. I am guessing they're paranoid another cheater will take their prize money so they have to preemptively cheat too. I stopped getting excited about Africans running fast times.

It is time for a serious investigation.

Many are cheating, and Kipchoge may very well be one of them (and of course no one wants to ask questions)

Or is it doctors out of the camps? Either way, yes doping with this drug near competition seems dumb. It doesn’t evade the tests. It’s weird to think it’s some super drug yet legal out of competition. That should not be a thing.

This is the drug for which she tested positive. Is the only drug being used? Armstrong was on a cocktail of drugs designed to work together for both performance and test evasion. It is extremely likely this drug is just a piece of a bigger formula.

"Triamcinolone acetonide can be used to reduce inflammation but it also
has the potential to be abused as a performance-enhancing drug as it can
help athletes lose weight, build muscle, and increase endurance."

Build muscle? This is a catabolic--not anabolic--steroid.

I admit to not knowing much about triamcinolone, but I used it a few years ago for a rash I had on my leg. I don't see how it could be a performance enhancer. It certainly didn't help me lose any weight, and I was using it for a couple of months. If it actually works for weight loss I'd be digging the tube out again and firing it up.

Doping works best when the coaches are in on it. So they know when you can work extra hard and when you need a break and how much recovery you need.

As for dumb, that's usually a case of getting too greedy. So you increase the dosis a bit because it worked so well last time, but then glow a bit too long, and bang, they catch you in-competition.

Rojo- L-carnitine is an amino acid derivative. Far from a thyroid medicine. Only noteworthy because of the infusions but the actual substance is no PED

You must be new here as it's been done to death for years on the LR forum, but if you can come up with something new please let us know.