Belgian girl wrote:
milermb wrote:
The most innocent explanation is that the Team Sky doctor miscalculated how much Froome could safely use the drug without producing a positive test and that the "overdose" was a genuine mistake/accident. There are more sinister explanations, however!
It would mean he took 32 puffs in place of 16. Well, he really sucks in counting !
Or, more likely, he takes the salbutamol under the form of pills in place of puffs. In that case, the mistake is very more likely to happen. But he won't use that defence though, knowing that the only way allowed to take salbutamol is the puffs.
I have asthma. Generally well controlled on Advair and Qvar (all legal in the dosages I take them). Sometimes on high pollen days or very humid ones if I feel tightchested I'll do two puffs of my inhaler (albuterol aka salbutamol) right before a race or workout pre-emptively - one of the things you learn is that it's far easier to prevent an attack then to treat one.
I've had some very bad asthma days, where I've had to stop and use my inhaler during a race (never exceeding the limit).
I can tell you that any day that I need to use my inhaler during a race is a day I am just struggling to finish a race. And I'm trashed after.
Needing to use that much of that drug due to asthma AND being able to compete well in a multi-day stage race makes no sense to me. If he needed that for his asthma, he should have been barely hanging on the the pack.
Do we know which day he tested positive, and what his performance was on that day and the days immediately after?