How 'bout that Cadel Evans?

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Breaking his collarbone for the THIRD time this year.

Don't steroids affect your bone strength? ...Just wondering.

-WG

Does he look like he has the physique of someone taking Roids?

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In article qbu7b.50397$cj1.43969@fed1read06 said:

Breaking his collarbone for the THIRD time this year.

Don't steroids affect your bone strength? ...Just wondering.

-WG

yes; see old pictures of Gert-Jan Theunisse. They don't get all built a la Arnie, etc.

James P. Spooner

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Does he look like he has the physique of someone taking Roids?

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In article qbu7b.50397$cj1.43969@fed1read06 said:

Breaking his collarbone for the THIRD time this year.

Don't steroids affect your bone strength? ...Just wondering.

-WG

James P. Spooner said:

yes; see old pictures of Gert-Jan Theunisse. They don't get all built a la Arnie, etc.

James P. Spooner

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Does he look like he has the physique of someone taking Roids?

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In article <qbu7b.50397$cj1.43969@fed1read06>, Mike S. <mikeshaw2@coxDOTnet> wrote:

>Breaking his collarbone for the THIRD time this year.

Don't steroids affect your bone strength? ...Just wondering.

Testosterone is still the best anabolic agent and easiest to use in a training regime (allegedly). I
noted with a wry smile the comment by another poster in a different thread that "70s and 80s
training regimes (running) assumed that everyone was using drugs to aid recovery..." Nod. Wink.

Bone strength can be affected by decalcification through blood acidosis, possibly caused by excess
fat burning. Or he could just naturally be prone to osteoporosis like Chris Boardman.

Stewart Fleming said:

Bone strength can be affected by decalcification through blood acidosis, possibly caused by excess
fat burning. Or he could just naturally be prone to osteoporosis like Chris Boardman.

Coppi was an example of a cyclist with very brittle bones. Maybe it was a lack of bone mass that
helped make him as great as he was in the mountains.

Coppi took lots of [censored], but in his case it was more likely childhood malnutrition at the root. It
wouldn't surprise me at all though if cyclists and climbing specialists in particular had lower bone
mass and thus were more susceptible to broken bones, just through a process of natural selection.

Bob Schwartz [email hidden]

He needs a titanium collarbone replacement.

Mike S.' mikeshaw2@coxDOTnet said:

Breaking his collarbone for the THIRD time this year.

He keeps this up, he's going to give Tyler Hamilton a run for the money for his "falling off a bike
and really hurting himself" record.

At least Alex Zuelle had the excuse that he couldn't see...

Mike

Mike S. wrote (about Cadel Evans):

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Breaking his collarbone for the THIRD time this year.

Well he did break the bone in the same place the 2nd time only 6 or 7 weeks after the 1st break, and
it takes several months for the bone to regain full strength as opposed to just knitting together.
The 3rd time he already had a plate still connected to the bone, possibly that might have
transferred some of the stress to a higher area on the bone.

Apropos of which, I wish Orthopedic surgeons would show one the pins and stuff they put in you
before they put them in. In my case I had a pin put in to hold a bad break together and was fairly
blase about using the arm (I even managed to slip on a wet floor with my look cleats while
dismounting after doing some indoor training and fell on my left (broken side); fortunately this was
5 weeks after the op and it must already have knitted). It was only after the op to remove the pin
when they gave me the pin as a memento that I realized how sharp the one end of the pin is. I'd hate
to think of the consequences of that thing coming loose inside your shoulder.

Donald 'always rides a indoor trainer on a carpet now'