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Titolo: History of drugs in cycling-NO OPINIONS (fwd)

doping, ephedrine, B-12 injections, creatine, etc.
Small history of doping:
 
1897. The Welsh rider Linton, co-winner of Bordeaux-Paris dies not long
after the race. Cause of death: probably doping. At that time riders took
cafeine, derivatives of strychnine, cocaine and arsenic, and above all
alcohol. For a race like Bordeaux-Paris: one bottle of cognac and some
glasses white wine, port, and champagne.
1924: Albert Londres interviews the Pelisssier brothers after they have
quitted the Tour. They show him a battery of little bottles, pills and
tables: "We ride on dynamite"
1938: The Belgian Felicien Vervaecke is a surprisingly strong adversary of
the young Bartali. One of the first times a rider is using amphitamine,
invented in 1930.
1942: Coppi takes seven tablets amphitamine and breaks the hour record.
1948: Gino Bartali wins the Tour de France. Almost certainly the last Tour
winner who was really clean.
1955: Tour de France: the Mont Ventoux. The French rider Jean Mallejac in
coma and almost dies. Ex-winner Ferdi Kuebler is zigzagging and super
climber Charley Gaul has a terrible beakdown: the have the same soigneur.
1964: Danish rider Jensen dies during the road race at the Olympic Games.
1965: The first doping tests.
1966: The first doping tests in the Tour de France. Anquetil leads a strike.
But there is one strikebreaker: Tommy Simpson.
1967: Tommy Simpson dies at the Mont Ventoux. Cause: amphitamine and
alcohol.
1969: In the Giro Eddy Merckx takes doping for the time trial. His doctor
assures him he has nothing to fear: after one hour after he has taken it he
won't test positive, and because the follwoing day is a rest day, next day
there will be no traces in his urine. Wrong. He is caught anyway. He
proclaims crying his innocence, says he has been cheated (he is, by his
doctor). Even the Belgian king expresses his concerns. Merckx' suspension is
lifted, so he can ride and win the Tour de France.
1975 and 1977: Bernard Thevenet wins the Tour. Some years later he admits he
took cortisone.
1977: The Belgian doctor Debackere finds a way to detect the popular doping
Stimul and tries it in the Tour de Belgique. All the riders tested are
positive.
1988: Pedro Delgado wins the TDF. He has used a masking drug which is on the
list of the OC but not of the UCI.
1988-1990: 18 Belgian and Dutch riders die of heart attacks. The first
experiments with EPO?
1989: The whole PDM team has to leave the Tour, having used contaminated
intrapelid, a drug masking the use of testeron.
1989: The miracolous resurrexion of Greg Lemond. He suffered from anemia,
but claimed to have been cured by an iron injection. Not many people believe
him. The rumour says he used blood-doping. Or was it EPO?
1990: The talented Gilles Delion wins the Tour of Lomardy, but has to stop
professional racing a few years later: he is really clean and can't compete
anymore now that all the strong riders are taking EPO, steroids, etc.
1998: The soigneur Willy Voet is arrested, and his team Festina is expelled
from the Tour de France.
Benjo Maso

the 1997-8 cyclocross world championships.
And the list can be much much longer, of course. Some beauties:
1956. Roger Riviere breaks the world hour record without taking doping:
46.923 m.
1957. Riviere takes pervetine and breaks the hour record again: 47.346 m. If
he hadn't had a flat tire, it would have been 300 m more.
1966. After the stage to Bordeaux in the TDF 6 riders are tested. Four of
them are positive. The urine of the French stars Aimar (winner of the Tour)
and Poulidor (third) disappears in a mysterious way.
1978. Michel Pollentier wins the stage to Alpe d'Huez and conquers the
yellow jersey. When he is tested he is caught with a condom filled with the
urine of someone else. Back in Belgium he draws cheering crowds.
1980: Six times world champion cyclo cross Eric de Vlaemynck is arrested. It
appears he is addicted to pervitine and is forced to spent a few month in a
drug rehabilitation centre. He has been tested many times during his
succesfull career, but was never positive.
1984: At the Olmpic Games eight members of the American bicycle team,among
which Alexi Grewal and Steve Hegg, fell ill when blood-doping is
administered to them. A few days later they win 4 of the 9 gold medals.
Etc., etc., etc.
Benjo Maso

 
eccezionale!
grazie.
tienici aggiornati se ne trovi ancora...
-- 
mandi
El Merlo 
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