I was reading my monthly cycling mag (cycling pro? can't remember- it is at work) dinnertime, and something I read about Pantani has stuck in my head. It was about his expulsion from the Giro, in, para-quote 'the same style as Merckx's expulsion for doping in the 1969 Giro'.
Is this true? Was he a druggy?
I will bring the magazine home with me tomorrow so I can quote it properly, if it helps.
I have a copy of the mag. It was an interview with Merckx on his best Tour win. He said that his first was his best (in his opinion) because of his expulsion from the Giro. He is quoted in Cycle Sport ed. Feb. 2002 as saying: "My first victory in the Tour de France in 1969 was my best one ever. It was a contrast to what the Italians did to me in the Giro a couple of months earlier. They tried to bribe me first, offered me some money, but when I refused to sell my personal chances they put dope in my bidon. I was suspended, but eventually was able to ride the Tour and I won it."
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I was reading my monthly cycling mag (cycling pro? can't remember- it is at work) dinnertime, and something I read about Pantani has stuck in my head. It was about his expulsion from the Giro, in, para-quote 'the same style as Merckx's expulsion for doping in the 1969 Giro'.
Is this true? Was he a druggy?
I will bring the magazine home with me tomorrow so I can quote it properly, if it helps.
Love to know your thoughts.
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I have a copy of the mag. It was an interview with Merckx on his best Tour win. He said that his first was his best (in his opinion) because of his expulsion from the Giro. He is quoted in Cycle Sport ed. Feb. 2002 as saying: "My first victory in the Tour de France in 1969 was my best one ever. It was a contrast to what the Italians did to me in the Giro a couple of months earlier. They tried to bribe me first, offered me some money, but when I refused to sell my personal chances they put dope in my bidon. I was suspended, but eventually was able to ride the Tour and I won it."
Did he also tell who put the drugs in his bidon the two other times he tested positive?
One of Merckx's positive doping results was for either pseudoephedrine or ephedrine in a cold medication. That stuff's not even a prescription medication in the US (think 'Pseudofed'😉.
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One of Merckx's positive doping results was for either pseudoephedrine or ephedrine in a cold medication. That stuff's not even a prescription medication in the US (think 'Pseudofed'😉.
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One of Merckx's positive doping results was for either pseudoephedrine or ephedrine in a cold medication. That stuff's not even a prescription medication in the US (think 'Pseudofed'😉.
People have died taking it (I recall a certain football player - or was it baseball?). Don't underestimate the kick this stuff provides. If I take it at 4 in the afternoon (for a cold, mind you) I don't sleep much that night.
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One of Merckx's positive doping results was for either pseudoephedrine or ephedrine in a cold medication. That stuff's not even a prescription medication in the US (think 'Pseudofed'😉.
People have died taking it (I recall a certain football player - or was it baseball?).
That's ephedra ... Not Pseudoephedrine HCl
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Don't underestimate the kick this stuff provides. If I take it at 4 in the afternoon (for a cold, mind you) I don't sleep much that night.
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