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Fignon "the professor" on doping...
On Jun 21, 9:16*pm, yirgster wrote:
On Thursday, June 21, 2012 12:17:53 PM UTC-7, AMuzi wrote: On 6/21/2012 12:26 PM, Steve Freides wrote: cicero venatio wrote: Fignon on doping, copied excerpt-- In the book, Fignon admitted to doping, describing drug-taking in the 1980s as widespread. He said it was recreational rather than performance-enhancing -- aided by the strong Colombian involvement in cycling at the time and accompanied by large quantities of cocaine. Is cocaine a performance enhancer for a bike racer? *I confess (blushes sheepishly) to never having tried the stuff. Jacques Anquetil and a few thousand race horses seemed OK with it. -- Andrew Muzi * www.yellowjersey.org/ * Open every day since 1 April, 1971 How does cocaine improve performance? Like, the pharmacology/biology. Is this something "well known" and, dare I add, validated (other than anecdotally) about cocaine? I never would have thought of it in that light. What I think of is: the cocaine scene it Annie Hall. Amphetamine-like in many of its effects on the body and brain. -Mike |
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Fignon "the professor" on doping...
Mike Owens wrote:
How does cocaine improve performance? Like, the pharmacology/biology. Is this something "well known" and, dare I add, validated (other than anecdotally) about cocaine? I never would have thought of it in that light. What I think of is: the cocaine scene it Annie Hall. Amphetamine-like in many of its effects on the body and brain. -Mike Well, I've never done that, either - like having a lot of coffee, maybe? Coffee does help with certain kinds of athletic performance but my guess is that it doesn't help with a 7-hour bike ride; I've found it helps with short efforts, e.g. weight lifting, sprinting, that sort of thing. -S- |
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