Casper positive!

LangerDan

L'Equipe have announced that Jimmy Casper is the fifth rider to test positive on the Tour. I thought French riders on French teams didn't dope?

Information L'Equipe : des traces de corticoïdes ont été retrouvées dans les urines de Jimmy Casper lors du dernier Tour de France. Le coureur d'Agritubel est le cinquième cas annoncé jeudi par l'Agence française de lutte contre le dopage (AFLD), après ceux de Manuel Beltran (EPO), Riccardo Ricco (CERA), Moises Duenas (EPO) et Dmitry Fofonov (Heptaminol). L'affaire s'annonce cependant très complexe car il s'agit d'un problème relatif à l'autorisation d'usage thérapeutique (AUT) délivré au coureur. - Damien RESSIOT

afx237vi

I thought it was supposed to be a Spaniard.

LangerDan

It would appear that Casper has TUEs for two products. However, the TUE for the anti-asthma medication expired before the Tour. He has been temporarily suspended by Agritubel.

Good job he doesn't ride for Astana................

hammerite

http://www.bikeradar.com/news/article/jimmy-casper-suspended-after-doping-result-17964

Interesting that he used to have the license for symbicort and it was changed to becotide. Most people who use these would have started on becotide and moved onto symbicort as symbicort is the newer, more effective drug for asthma (symbicort and becotide are used to help prevent asthma attacks, were as salbutamol is used to relieve asthma).

Would be interesting to see whether his results show normal usage, i.e. one maybe two puffs a day every day. As a professional in a sport like cycling (i.e. under the drugs spotlight all the time), you would think that riders would be a bit more paranoid, and be meticulous to checking the drugs they take (legally) and the licenses they have to use them.

ms_tree

hammerite wrote:

http://www.bikeradar.com/news/article/jimmy-casper-suspended-after-doping-result-17964

Interesting that he used to have the license for symbicort and it was changed to becotide. Most people who use these would have started on becotide and moved onto symbicort as symbicort is the newer, more effective drug for asthma (symbicort and becotide are used to help prevent asthma attacks, were as salbutamol is used to relieve asthma).

Yes I thought that odd too. I used to take Becotide and Salbutamol (2 puffs each x twice a day) separately but now take Seretide (2 puffs x 2 times just going down to 1 x twice) which is a combination. According to the leaflet that comes with it, it is a 'preventer' and a 'protector' in a single inhaler.
The protector bit relaxes the muscles in the walls of the small air passages of the lungs . This helps to open up the airways and makes it easier for air to get in and out of the lungs. When taken regularly it helps the air passages to stay open.
The protector bit as a corticosteroid which are used to treat asthma because they have an anti-inflammatory action. They reduce the swelling and irritation in the walls of the small air passages of the lungs, and so ease breathing problems. They can also help to prevent attacks of asthma. So they are called 'preventers'.
When I was first diagnosed I just used Salbutamol/Ventilin but my GP said that if you need to take that more than 10 puffs a day then you need to take a protector.

Probably that air in Beijing would increase attacks, I would think.

nwallace

hammerite wrote:

Most people who use these would have started on becotide and moved onto symbicort as symbicort is the newer, more effective drug for asthma (symbicort and becotide are used to help prevent asthma attacks, were as salbutamol is used to relieve asthma).

Becotide contains CFCs for Propellans and has been discontinued in the UK because there are now CFC free alternatives.

Reads to me like the doctor filling out the TUE screwed up and put in Becotide instead of Symbicort. 2 different glucocorticoids.

victorponf

[. I thought French riders on French teams didn't dope?



Just spanish riders are dopers, of course

biondino

And Spanish tennis players and Spanish football teams, don't forget.

victorponf

biondino wrote:

And Spanish tennis players and Spanish football teams, don't forget.

Don´t forget David Millar or Dwain Chambers as well, I think dopping is a global problem, no just spanish

flattythehurdler

I don't think many other countries would have had the likes of Dr Fuentes officialy addressing their Olympic Committee. In the UK he would, I suspect , be in very hot water with the GMC.