Velonews is reporting on a Danish newspaper article in which a physiologist has analyzed Lance’s blood test results from the 2009 Tour and says that the results could indicate a blood doping program.
The physiologist claims that Lance’s hematocrit and hemoglobin levels stayed “unusually consistent” throughout the tour. He goes on to say that this could indicate blood doping or it may be due to natural causes (dehydration, diarrhea).
Pretty tough to argue that one, huh? Basically, this guy gets an article published stating that Lance either doped during the Tour or he didn’t…
THat just stupid is trying to say that if you are to clean then you must be on drugs
Andy
So clean that your testicular cancer isn’t detected by anti-doping controls …
Xav
That statement makes no sense whatsoever. Doping controls don’t test for cancer. I don’t think cancer shows up in your urine anyway. Lance got cancer way before blood testing started. Who knows, maybe you know something none of us do though.
THat just stupid is trying to say that if you are to clean then you must be on drugs
Andy
So clean that your testicular cancer isn’t detected by anti-doping controls …
Xav
That statement makes no sense whatsoever. Doping controls don’t test for cancer. I don’t think cancer shows up in your urine anyway. Lance got cancer way before blood testing started. Who knows, maybe you know something none of us do though.
He would have been tested for hCG. He reported that his levels were >100,000 when diagnosed: in a regular control you’d be pulled up for anything over ~0.5 (and in the past exactly this has happened, and athletes subsequently given cancer screening).
Leave the poor bastard alone… If by training way harder than most of us, and having better genes and access to better coaches than us than yes. He is doping.
Leave the poor bastard alone… If by training way harder than most of us, and having better genes and access to better coaches than us than yes. He is doping.
It’s a good thing this physiologist wasn’t his oncologist. “It’s either doping or diarrhea”, would be like saying “Well, Lance, its either cancer or a tooth ache”…big f’ng difference.
