What? No Europcar Doping Thread Yet?

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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 13,308
    Much ado about not very much as far as I can see.
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,385
    BB doesn't have any boring quotes to post so we re left with sensible people waiting and watching...
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  • timoid.
    timoid. Posts: 3,133
    So is this a whole load of nothing? Or have we just decided to ignore it because the French don't dope.
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  • gabriel959
    gabriel959 Posts: 4,227
    My doping mind thinks...

    We knew what you were doing last summer and did nothing. We know you could do it again this summer but it will be a bit much so please keep it down.

    This sport is rotten to the core IMO.
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  • DeadCalm
    DeadCalm Posts: 4,099
    Timoid. wrote:
    So is this a whole load of nothing? Or have we just decided to ignore it because the French don't dope.
    It does appear, on the face of it, to be a whole load of nothing. The French anti-doping agency launched an investigation last August but have found nothing.

    The biggest shocker for me is to discover that corticosteroids have effectively been legalised for out-of-competition usage.
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  • MrTapir
    MrTapir Posts: 1,206
    DeadCalm wrote:
    Timoid. wrote:
    So is this a whole load of nothing? Or have we just decided to ignore it because the French don't dope.
    It does appear, on the face of it, to be a whole load of nothing. The French anti-doping agency launched an investigation last August but have found nothing.

    The biggest shocker for me is to discover that corticosteroids have effectively been legalised for out-of-competition usage.

    Well it makes sense i suppose because I have an allergy prescription that is a corticosteroid, its only one of those nasal sprays.

    The articles on this seem to be lots of words not saying very much, and as Bernadeu points out, plenty of rumour. THe Charteau thing sounded a bit dodgy, but im not sure what the article was saying at the end of it, googletranslate was a bit garbled, was it saying that administering cortisol after a crash could be fatal to a rider, and thus would be a silly thing for them to try? Although the example of Ricco shows that concerns for one's heatlh arent always high on the agenda.
  • dougzz
    dougzz Posts: 1,833
    Didn't Dick Pound make some remark about sympathy for the peleton given the number of 'asthmatics' in cycling.
  • MrTapir
    MrTapir Posts: 1,206
    dougzz wrote:
    Didn't Dick Pound make some remark about sympathy for the peloton given the number of 'asthmatics' in cycling.

    What a name that guys got :D

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