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Interesting that Ulissi pops for an inhaler at Giro but Froome's is OK. I wonder how much salbutamol was flowing through Froom's veins when he got his special TUE. I'm in agreement with those who believe that a rider who needs this stuff to compete through illness is too ill to compete.
http://velonews.competitor.com/2014/06/news/lampre-ulissi-tested-positive-banned-substance-giro_333381
http://velonews.competitor.com/2014/06/news/lampre-ulissi-tested-positive-banned-substance-giro_333381
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Kinda bummed for that, I like Ulissi. Presumably, they tested Froome the stage he took a puff since he was wearing yellow and he was below the threshold.
That kind of footage should be norm in todays cycling. It should be mandatory f.ex team captains to wear camera on their bikes and directors could pick nice shots from there...
Very interesting video and gives a viewer the whole new perspective about the sport....
Very interesting video and gives a viewer the whole new perspective about the sport....
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Oh how the lines are blurred.
The shot would have entertainment value. Brings a lot more excitement to watching a race on TV, which can get boring really fast.
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euan wrote:By the way, the Velonews article is full of errors. The limit is 1600 micrograms not 1000 nanograms. And a puff of an inhaler contains 100micrograms
The limit they are talking about is 1 000ng/ml in the urine sample not a certain number of puff per day
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euan wrote:Thats where it gets confusing from the article, if a puff results in 100ng in your urine then surely 16 allowed puffs will result in 1600ng in the sample and so on.
Pharmacokinetics are much more complicated than that.
First issue is: do you really think that the full 100µg of a puff reach the lung tissue? Then what is the kinetic of elimination from lung tissue to the urine? etc etc etc
Italians are bad at avoiding the detection of their doping.
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