The Asthma Medicine Must Be Working For Compton

November 8, Elite women: Nommay, Compton repeats Nommay World Cup win
Source:
http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/uci...-women/results

Take a deep breath...

Compton has to plan her travel carefully because she has found that flying
too close to a race causes her to suffer debilitating leg cramps. But that
isn't the only health problem that has affected her racing. This summer,
while racing on the national mountain bike circuit, she had some frightening
episodes due to asthma.

Compton attempted to race without her asthma medication while she was
awaiting a Therapeutic Use Exemption from the UCI and suffered a severe
attack that landed her in the hospital after a race in Alabama. She also
had to withdraw from the US Mountain Bike National Championships while
racing for a podium spot.

Finding the right medication and getting the proper paperwork for the
anti-doping authorities took the better part of the summer, but going into
the 'cross season Compton said she believes her problems are behind her.

"My asthma has gotten worse in the last year. I've been trying to play with
the medicine a bit. I have used a long-acting and a short-acting [medicine],
and I finally got the right long-acting medicine.

"I've always been good for less than an hour, my short-action inhaler works.
But for the mountain bike races, I hadn't done enough at that level and that
intensity, so I hadn't had enough time to dial in the medicine - I was using
the races to dial in the long-acting medicine which isn't ideal."

Fortunately, cyclo-cross races are short enough that her asthma shouldn't be
a factor, but looking down the road toward a possible 2012 Olympic bid on
the mountain bike, it is increasingly important to control her asthma.

Source:
http://www.cyclingnews.com/features/...ross-world-cup

Didn't you get enough of our first round of Asthma-gate here in
r.b.r.? 300-400 postings going round and round in circles wasn't the
end of it for you? You need more?

Brad Anders