Being asthmatic is an advantage in the sport, LOL :-)
Yet again proof that "elite athletism" and asthma just aren't compatible, and hoping to shoehorn PED usage into "returning to normal" is a hopeless wish.
But he's spinning it:
I can prove Froome is innocent. Just let me get my laptop. Oh dear, where did I put it now?
Zede wrote:
Being asthmatic is an advantage in the sport, LOL :-)
Norway even tries to induce it in their skiers.
Dry air helps wrote:
Zede wrote:
Being asthmatic is an advantage in the sport, LOL :-)
Norway even tries to induce it in their skiers.
How many stacks of piles of TUEs did Western nations give their swimboys for this "condition"? Yet Russians are "dopers" because of use of inert meldonium for heart conditions?
Brits don't dope. Show me the evidence.
Did not expect anything else from a kenian
A loyal Scotsman wrote:
Brits don't dope. Show me the evidence.
He's about to become Kenyan, just like Andy Murray became a Scot when he stopped winning.
Dry air helps wrote:
Zede wrote:
Being asthmatic is an advantage in the sport, LOL :-)
Norway even tries to induce it in their skiers.
Such a high incidence of asthmatics in cycling. Predisposed, perhaps?
Anyway, not looking good for Froomey:
Qty allowed under WADA rules: 1000 ng/ml
Alessandro Petacchi: 1360 ng/ml - Banned for 1 year.
Diego Ulissi: 1900 ng/ml - Banned for 9 months.
Christopher Froome: 2000 ng/ml ...?
Kenyans now even introducing doping culture to cycling. Time to ban all Kenyan born athletes from ALL sports.
obviously Lance made him do it.
A loyal Scotsman wrote:
Brits don't dope. Show me the evidence.
The Briton was founded to have had Salbutamol in excess of 1000 nanograms per millilitre in a sample collected on September 7.
The UCI stated that Froome was informed of the finding on September 20, with analysis having since confirmed the result.
Team Sky confirmed the test showed concentration of 2,000 nanograms per millilitre, TWICE the allowed limit.
Team Sky stated that Salbutamol is permitted by WADA rules, without the need for a TUE, when inhaled up to a limit of 1,600 micrograms over a period of 24 hours and no more than 800 mcg over 12 hours.
From a study:
"With the high 800 mcg dose, salbutamol levels in the 4 hour post-exercise urine specimen varied from 200 to 700 ng/ml . Salbutamol doses given in asthma are usually far smaller than 800 μg so they would probably result in negative urine tests should they be inhaled by an athlete during a competition, and positive urine tests probably indicate use of a systemic route and/or of extremely high doses."
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1746141/pdf/v056p00675.pdfMr. Froome has urine levels of salbutamol which are about 3 times the maximum level of any subject in the study taking an 800 mcg dose of salbutamol.
His urine levels are also DOUBLE the allowed limit.
This looks like more bad news for Team Sky and Sir Dave Brailsford.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/mar/05/team-sky-doctor-richard-freeman-was-allegedly-sent-banned-testosterone-patches-dopinghttps://www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/oct/19/british-cycling-doctor-jiffy-bag-scandal-richard-freemanHe took a normal puff of his inhaler but he became severely dehyrdrated after his superhuman efforts in hot Spanish weather. This artificially increased the level of the drugs in his test result plus the laboratory equipment may have not been calibrated correctly. Several British athletes have been shown to have been victim to these unfortunate circumstances, they might be genetically susceptible. Maybe the IAAF should run a study to prove this.
What? Is this fake news? No way! Not Froome! That would be like Mo failing a drug test...ain't going to happen!
According to the journalist who broke the story the permitted levels of the drug amount to 16 puffs a day of a standard inhaler. My doctor prescribed 2 puffs prior to exercise. Froome had DOUBLE the acceptable levels in his sample - equivalent to 32 puffs in a single day.
Something not right here! (To say the least!)
milermb wrote:
According to the journalist who broke the story the permitted levels of the drug amount to 16 puffs a day of a standard inhaler. My doctor prescribed 2 puffs prior to exercise. Froome had DOUBLE the acceptable levels in his sample - equivalent to 32 puffs in a single day.
Something not right here! (To say the least!)
I did some european youth cycling races and teammates of me would have prescribed asthma inhalers without actually having it. They also took a lot of that staff. So 32 does sound a bit high but perhaps not outlandish.
The guy failed a drugs test back in September when he was riding in the Vuelta. He should have been booted out of the race there and then - possibly with his team as well for good measure. Instead there was some BS cover up and the public does not get to know about the failed drugs test until 3 months later. No one with any integrity should be watching professional cycling until the sport finally cleans it act up.
milermb wrote:
According to the journalist who broke the story the permitted levels of the drug amount to 16 puffs a day of a standard inhaler. My doctor prescribed 2 puffs prior to exercise. Froome had DOUBLE the acceptable levels in his sample - equivalent to 32 puffs in a single day.
Something not right here! (To say the least!)
Check this out:
https://twitter.com/Swift__Girl/status/940850655408816130Des Linden: "The entire sport" has changed since she first started running Boston.
Am I living in the twilight zone? The Boston Marathon weather was terrible!
Ryan Eiler, 3rd American man at Boston, almost out of nowhere
Matt Choi was drinking beer halfway through the Boston Marathon
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