Would you pass a drugs test?

Kléber

It depends, some guys seem to be watched a lot, others not.

I'm lucky in that I haven't even had an aspirin this year and maybe nabbed a couple of my other half's multivitamin pills this year. But I went for a health check and they took blood samples and I returned a haematocrit of 49%. Dr Ferrari would be proud! I instantly felt guilty and was thinking of ways to explain this suspicious value.

boybiker

nasahapley wrote:

avoidingmyphd wrote:

haha would homeopathic remedies show up? Do you even know what they are?

I'm glad someone picked up on that - saved me penning a withering remark!

Are there any, errr, 'recreational' drugs on the banned list?

Yep cannabis is on the banned list as are cocaine and amphetamines , my weekends have become a lot quieter since I got my racing license although I haven't been tested yet :roll:

idaviesmoore

RichK wrote:

OK. Totally random thought here. Would you pass a UCI drugs test? :?:

So, go on then. Reckon you would pass?

TBH I could take a Festina-labelled-family-sized-hatchback-stuffed-full-of-medication and it wouldn't make a blind bit of differance to me, I'm sure. You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. Even if you inject it with horse steroids :oops:

meagain

Guess they'd have found the speed and brandy and less innocent stuff....but I wasn't cycling at the time!

dennisn

I never inhaled!!!!!!!!!!!

Dennis Noward

Patrick1.0

Kléber wrote:

It depends, some guys seem to be watched a lot, others not.

I'm lucky in that I haven't even had an aspirin this year and maybe nabbed a couple of my other half's multivitamin pills this year. But I went for a health check and they took blood samples and I returned a haematocrit of 49%. Dr Ferrari would be proud! I instantly felt guilty and was thinking of ways to explain this suspicious value.

Do you have any information on what a rift valley athlete's hematocrit would be? I am genuinely interested and don't know where I'd find an answer to that question. I'd bet that the Kenyan and Ethiopian distance runners have astonishingly high levels due to the fact they are born at and train at altitude. Interesting, anyway.

meagain

Lots of stuff on t'web about altitude/performance/haematocrit e.g.

"Mexico City 1968: Held at 2240m, the Mexico Olympics were controversial with sprinters smashing world records and endurance events being dominated by athletes who were born and bred at altitude.
Despite having won only four medals in Olympic history, African athletes from altitude regions dominated endurance events from 1500m to the marathon
Munich 1972: African success is enjoyed at sea level and Finnish runners also triumph.
Boulder Colorado 1974: American marathon champion Frank Shorter shifts to the 1600m ski-town, Boulder Colorado to train. Today, more Olympic and world champion runners, triathletes, cyclists and skiers have come out of Boulder than any other town in the world.
Montreal 1976: The Africans boycott but the Finnish distance runners continue to dominate.
Twenty years later it was disclosed that top Finnish runners had instituted blood doping - not by taking a drug but by re-injecting blood conditioned by high altitude training then stored until shortly before competition. Blood doping of any description is now banned but the benefits of altitude training were again substantiated.
LA 1984: American cyclists completely dominate the LA Olympic road race. With next to no history in the event at the top level, this extraordinary performance was later attributed to blood doping.
USA 1988: Altitude simulators are being used in the US through the use of hypobaric chambers and nitrogen tents. They do not catch on due to the cost and the psychological drawbacks of being cooped up for long periods
Kenya 1990: African athletes dominate distance running but are alarmed by rumours of an undetectable drug that produces altitude-training effects. Within two years the red cell boosting drug 'EPO' has made an impact on all endurance sports. World records are slashed almost daily and athletes never seem to need a recovery or build up period. By the late 1990s the world record for 10,000m had been slashed by 34 seconds in less than eight years - whereas the same improvement prior to that had taken almost 30 years.
New Zealand 1991: Dr John Hellemans begins trailing altitude training for athletes and New Zealand dominates the 1998 world triathlete championships after training with a squad in the French Alps.
Russia 1996: Scientists develop the Hypoxicator - a machine for simulating the rarefied air typical of high altitude. Unlike the nitrogen tents and hypo baric chambers, the simulator allows the athlete to gain short periods of exposure to rarefied air through a mask
Auckland 2001: Altitude Science Ltd designs the BodyO2 programme. Based on the solid state BodyO2 Altitude Simulator, elite athletes in many codes add SAT using BodyO2 to their training. PerformO uses the same equipment, the ESRIO.
Today there is general agreement in the scientific and sports worlds of the efficacy of altitude training and in particular, of simulated altitude training. Because it is natural and safe, SAT is accepted by the Olympic Standards Committee. "

Some of course is simply marketing of various HA simulators, but plenty of medical studies also.

whyamihere

I'd fail. Need an exemption for salbutamol, and I'd fail outright for oxycodone (didn't see anything in the regs regarding medical exemption certificates for that).

Better not enter any UCI competitions then...