Salbutamol now permitted even without TUE!

donrhummy
donrhummy Posts: 2,329
edited September 2009 in Pro race
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/wada-ap ... substances

What's interesting is WADA admits it was a purely monetary decision:
According to WADA, "this measure will allow the handling of salbutamol by anti-doping organizations in a more cost-efficient way."

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  • cswebbo
    cswebbo Posts: 220
    What a bizzare change of events.
    I guess it saves on a visit to the good doctor for the pro's who suffer 'breathing difficulties'.
    Nearly as strange as the time they put caffeine on the banned list.
  • bikerZA
    bikerZA Posts: 314
    It is amazing how many pro cyclists have asthma..
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  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    But if you take a big dose, you're still busted, no?

    So yes to asthma but no to "asthma". For example, Petacchi would still be caught out as a doper.
  • hammerite
    hammerite Posts: 3,408
    bikerZA wrote:
    It is amazing how many pro cyclists have asthma..

    I think it's amazing how many people have asthma on the whole. I've been a sufferer since I was a kid, I know I was in the minority - having to carry inhalers everywhere is a pain as a 6 yo! As I got into my teens more and more of my friends were being told that they had asthma.

    The amount of people I saw carrying inhalers at a race (running) at the weekend was silly. Perhaps it's been one of those things a lazy doctor* will say you have and prescribe an inhaler to get you out the door.


    *this isn't a claim that doctors are lazy on the whole....

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