Pro Cycling Discussion 2017

Sagan/Cavendish TDF Crash Update...

"Having considered the materials submitted in the CAS proceedings, including video footage that was not available at the time when the race jury had disqualified Peter Sagan, the parties agreed that the crash was an unfortunate and unintentional race incident and that the UCI commissaires made their decision based on their best judgment in the circumstances,"

"These proceedings have shown how important and arduous the work of the UCI Commissaires is,” Lappartient said. “As of next season the UCI intends to engage a ‘Support Commissaire’ to assist the Commissaires Panel with special video expertise on the main events of the UCI WorldTour."
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Potentially inadvertently exceeding the stipulated threshold for an authorised medication/substance doesn't (for me) ring the same bells as testing positive for a banned substance altogether.

Given the past of the sport I can understand the rife skepticism whenever the spotlight shines but these don't half always feel like a witchhunt whenever they surface :rolleyes:
 
Team Sky is probably the most morally corrupt organisation in 'sport', I hope they get taken down a peg or 20... Many people have been waiting to throw the book at Froome, I hope he gets all his titles removed and a 2 year ban.
 
BennyC said:
Potentially inadvertently exceeding the stipulated threshold for an authorised medication/substance doesn't (for me) ring the same bells as testing positive for a banned substance altogether.

Given the past of the sport I can understand the rife skepticism whenever the spotlight shines but these don't half always feel like a witchhunt whenever they surface :rolleyes:
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Absolutely, as you can see the haters are out in force with pitchforks already. Its always going to generate talk, but people should just let the investigation carry out and if found guilty then fair enough, he gets what he deserves.
 
So is this to do with taking a higher dosage of Salbutamol, I can't say if it makes any performance gains for everyone but personally speaking I have asthma and when I first started taking this medication at school I was constantly one of the best runners in my school, before taking the medication I was not.

I do believe this medication can and does have a performance gain on some athletes.
 
Bear said:
Absolutely, as you can see the haters are out in force with pitchforks already. Its always going to generate talk, but people should just let the investigation carry out and if found guilty then fair enough, he gets what he deserves.
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It's just yet another example of a top cyclist pushing the rules, they've all been rumbled abusing the TUE regs and now it's puffing away enough on an asthma inhaler to double the legal level in the test. I'm a huge fan of Chris and really hoped he would be the start of an era where we started to have less doubts but it's all mounting up again I suspect the UCI will find a way to clear him without a ban as they simply don't want the press coverage but the doubts will never go away Chris has tarnished his reputation and much like Bradley Wiggins try as he might he will never escape it there will always be that bagging doubt when ever he does well.
 
The Salbutamol puts an asthma sufferer onto the same level as a non-asthma sufferer, it opens their airways but doesnt increase the size of them according to medical information.
 
TallPaul1878 said:
I'm flabbergasted at the number of professional athletes that suffer from asthma
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Exercise induced asthma is a real thing, I would expect due to the nature of how much and how hard professionals train they would be more likely to suffer from it. I had a friend who got into triathlons in quite a big way and he ended up with asthma when he never had it before.
 
Bear said:
Exercise induced asthma is a real thing, I would expect due to the nature of how much and how hard professionals train they would be more likely to suffer from it. I had a friend who got into triathlons in quite a big way and he ended up with asthma when he never had it before.
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I got asthma at high school. It was very strange. I was doing cross country in the autumn and found myself hyperventilating, got rushed to the doctors and they diagnosed asthma as it runs in the family.

I've always kept up with sports and do road cycling myself, at about age 16 I went back to the doctor's as I had been finding I had no need for my inhaler and they cleared me of having asthma.

I don't know what was going on. Did I really have asthma? Did I grow out of it? Anyway I've not had any symptoms for over 20 years now and I still exercise vigorously.
 
beachBOYken said:
personally speaking I have asthma and when I first started taking this medication at school I was constantly one of the best runners in my school, before taking the medication I was not.
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Correlation does not imply causation. Any vagaries around how well a conditioned runner you may or may not have been prior to medicating doesn't help affirm your claim.
 
BennyC said:
Potentially inadvertently exceeding the stipulated threshold for an authorised medication/substance doesn't (for me) ring the same bells as testing positive for a banned substance altogether.

Given the past of the sport I can understand the rife skepticism whenever the spotlight shines but these don't half always feel like a witchhunt whenever they surface :rolleyes:
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Do you think you'd be found not guilty of drink driving if you say that it was an accident that you had double the legal limit? I assume there's a reason why there is a limit even on legal substance. Anyway it's up to him and UCI what will happen.
 
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