Congratulations, Paula Radcliffe

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Roids. Wait till they test her, then she'll be banned.

Dream on.

Roids. Wait till they test her, then she'll be banned.

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Roids.

Are next to useless or even counter-productive to endurance runners.

EPO and the like maybe but steroids are pointless.

"steve common" <[email hidden]> wrote

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[steroids] Are next to useless or even counter-productive to endurance
runners.

EPO and the like maybe but steroids are pointless.

The winner or 2nd place in the 10k in the '84 olympics (which I witnessed)
was DQ'd for steroids.

At the time I read that they increase the hematocrit, improving endurance.

EPO is probably more targeted (and harder to detect), but anabolics do help
endurance athletes some.

-- Dan

Dan Stumpus said:

but anabolics do help
endurance athletes some.

Oops my bad. Had read some article where they'd done comparison of different
dope on performance and steroids were in the "background noise" for
endurance events but high up for sprinting/throwing/jumping.

EPO was the one boosting haematocrit to 50%

Dan Stumpus said:

The winner or 2nd place in the 10k in the '84 olympics (which I

witnessed)

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was DQ'd for steroids.

I´m not saying that too much running on natural surfaces can damage
your memory cells, but if you were there at the Coliseum, how can you
have forgotten Alberto Cova´s final kick?:-)

The runner whose "test result was positive" was Martti Vainio, the tall
Finn with whom Cova formed a funnylooking pair for most of the race.

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At the time I read that they increase the hematocrit, improving

endurance.

For that purpose Vainio could´ve resorted to blood doping (not that
there´s any way of knowing or proving that he - or any other Finn of
the 70´s and 80´s - didn´t). That explanation strikes me as more or
less taken out of thin air by a baffled commentator.

At the time it was believed (in some circles) that a low testosterone
level was a certain sign of overtraining or that the danger of
overtraining could be averted by rising such a low level by taking
testosterone. By all accounts, this is exactly what Vainio did - but it
turned out that the ampoules he´d purchased (over the counter) in
Palermo contained the steroid which later showed up in his sample.

(Testosterone alone would´ve been a banned substance, but the point of
this little story is not that he wasn´t guilty...)

Anders