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  • Tor De France stage 11

    Two men carry a giant syringe as they run by the riders during the 10th stage of the 91st Tour de France cycling race between Limoges and Saint-Flour.
    (JOEL SAGET/AFP/Getty Images)



    German fan Didi Senft, nicknamed "El diablo", cheers on the riders during the 11th stage of the 91st Tour de France.
    (JOEL SAGET/AFP/Getty Images)


  • #2
    Originally posted by Lunatock
    Two men carry a giant syringe
    Why?
    No man is free until all men are free - John Hossack
    I agree completely with this Administration’s goal of a regime change in Iraq-John Kerry
    even if that enforcement is mostly at the hands of the United States, a right we retain even if the Security Council fails to act-John Kerry
    He may even miscalculate and slide these weapons off to terrorist groups to invite them to be a surrogate to use them against the United States. It’s the miscalculation that poses the greatest threat-John Kerry

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    • #3
      Maybe its a race to fight drugs?

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Confed999
        Why?
        There are riders that have been kicked out for blood doping, plus allegations against other riders including Lance about blood doping.

        Blood doping is to cycling what steriods is to American baseball. Supposedly, most of them are doing it, and a decent amount get caught including at least 3 riders in this years Tour.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by mtnbiker
          There are riders that have been kicked out for blood doping, plus allegations against other riders including Lance about blood doping.

          Blood doping is to cycling what steriods is to American baseball. Supposedly, most of them are doing it, and a decent amount get caught including at least 3 riders in this years Tour.
          Thanks ;) I was hoping they weren't looking for a fix.
          No man is free until all men are free - John Hossack
          I agree completely with this Administration’s goal of a regime change in Iraq-John Kerry
          even if that enforcement is mostly at the hands of the United States, a right we retain even if the Security Council fails to act-John Kerry
          He may even miscalculate and slide these weapons off to terrorist groups to invite them to be a surrogate to use them against the United States. It’s the miscalculation that poses the greatest threat-John Kerry

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          • #6
            Ever since he won last century, some of the french<spit> say he's been doping. As if the reason he spanked everyone else was because he has bigger pecs.

            Lance Armstrong himself has said it's about 10% of the french<spit> that act thay way. But the media fixates on that percentage.

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            • #7
              FYI on blood doping

              "Many of the most popular new compounds are identical to natural chemicals made by the body --- making sure detection difficult or impossible. It was one of those undetectable drugs, erythropoetin or EPO, that caused the latest stink in Europe. Biker Marco Pantani, AKA the Pirate, was close to winning the Giro d'Italia, a multi-day race in his native Italy, when he failed a test intended to catch users of EPO.

              EPO is a genetically-engineered version of a natural hormone made by the kidney that stimulates bone marrow to make red blood cells. synthetic EPO is sold as a rescue medicine for treating anemia in end-stage kidney disease, when production of EPO declines.

              Because red blood cells carry oxygen to the muscles, and because bikers need a huge amount of oxygen during their arduous sport, raising the number of red blood cells can -- theoretically -- improve performance. Here's a description of the origin of synthetic EPO.

              In the past, bike racers tried to increase the number of red blood cells by removing their own blood, storing it, and transfusing it back just before a race. Nowadays, this gory process of "blood doping" has been replaced by genetic engineering. Athletes simply inject EPO, which causes the body to make the cells.

              Since EPO is a naturally occurring hormone, testing for it would detect anyone, not very helpful for identifying doped athletes. Unable to measure EPO itself, the mandarins of international cycling at Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) rely on a surrogate test that measures the density of cells in the blood. Blood, as you'll recall, is composed of cells -- mainly red, but also white -- and serum and other liquids that help the cells flow. A study from the 1980s, before synthetic EPO, showed that bike racers' blood averaged a cellular content of 43 percent, so the UCI decreed that anybody with a level above 50 percent would be disqualified for taking EPO. "

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              • #8
                Thanks for the info, mtnbiker. Quite interesting, it would suck if you were the odd-ball with a natural cellular content above 50% though.
                No man is free until all men are free - John Hossack
                I agree completely with this Administration’s goal of a regime change in Iraq-John Kerry
                even if that enforcement is mostly at the hands of the United States, a right we retain even if the Security Council fails to act-John Kerry
                He may even miscalculate and slide these weapons off to terrorist groups to invite them to be a surrogate to use them against the United States. It’s the miscalculation that poses the greatest threat-John Kerry

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Asim Aquil
                  Maybe its a race to fight drugs?
                  LOL!

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