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Performance Enhancing Drug Used by ALL Pros.

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  • July 16, 2018 at 7:33 pm #28732
    Canyon48

    So after all the furore around Salbutamol; which, when taken via an inhaler, offers no performance enhancement (http://www.cyclist.co.uk/news/4053/salbutamol-can-be-performance-enhancing-says-wada) and all the accusations of “cheat” and “doper”, I’m curious why no-one has mentioned the drug that ALL pro cyclists are on that is very well proven to be massively performance enhancing.

    Caffeine.

    Given that caffeine is so potent, why isn’t it banned and why do “we” not consider taking caffeine as cheating?

    I know the UCI has a limit on caffeine, 12micrograms per ml urine, but when it is proven to be performance enhancing why is it not more strictly controlled (just like other performance enhancers) yet drugs like Salbutamol (with no known performance benefits) are controlled far more tightly.

    I’m not calling for caffeine to be banned (or even controlled more), I’m just confused why “we” accept some performance enhancers, yet reject other substances as cheating (even if they offer no benefits).

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  • July 17, 2018 at 5:50 am #923601
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    don simon fbpe

    I imagine the simple reason

    I imagine the simple reason is that Salbutamol does enhance performance (yes it does). It says so in the article you linked to (yes it does).

    The problem we have is that a test result cannot be worked backward into an ingested quantity, nor can it determine how the drug was ingested. 

    I guess the coffee tests are a lot more straightforward.

     

    July 17, 2018 at 1:03 am #923599
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    Anonymous

    I seem to recall an athlete

    I seem to recall an athlete in the 70s being stripped of an Olympic medal and also sprinter Inga/er Miller in the late 90s for caffeine ‘doping’, also I’m sure there was a case of excessive caffeine at a winter olympics but that might have been passive smoking of marajuana, same but different ;o)

    It should be controlled far more IMO, caffeine that is.

    July 16, 2018 at 9:23 pm #923597
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    vonhelmet

    Caffeine is the most widely

    Caffeine is the most widely consumed psychoactive drug in the world. Everyone takes it everywhere in the world. Yes, it’s performance enhancing, but it’s so baked into everyday life as to be utterly meaningless. You may as well try to ban food and drink and make the riders cope on whatever food they can consume before the race starts.

    July 16, 2018 at 9:16 pm #923595
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    VeloUSA

    Try sending this to UCI

    Try sending this to UCI reportdoping@cadf.ch. It is monitored by staff of the Cycling Anti-Doping Foundation (CADF), the independent body mandated by the UCI to plan and carry out anti-doping activities in cycling. Interesting to see if they reply back to you with facts, gibberish, or ignore your mail.

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