Lots of parallels between Lance and Floyd. Comeback from cancer, comeback from hip condition. Comeback in 1999, comeback in 2006 Stage 17.
The hip condition sounds potentially suspicious, but supposedly came about from a previous injury. And yeah, one would need to take strange drug cocktails to deal with it.
It doesn't seem that unreasonable that one might treat hip issues with hormones.
It does seem strange that if he had been using steroids, that they'd only show up until Stage 17, and not sooner. I didn't think that 'roids worked that fast.
Or do they think the steroids are a side-effect of blood doping? (I thought most people were smart enough to harvest their red blood cells when they were free from drugs/steroids, so when they doped the RBCs back in, they wouldn't re-introduce the banned substances.)
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Date: 2006-07-27 04:08 pm (UTC)The hip condition sounds potentially suspicious, but supposedly came about from a previous injury. And yeah, one would need to take strange drug cocktails to deal with it.
It doesn't seem that unreasonable that one might treat hip issues with hormones.
It does seem strange that if he had been using steroids, that they'd only show up until Stage 17, and not sooner. I didn't think that 'roids worked that fast.
Or do they think the steroids are a side-effect of blood doping? (I thought most people were smart enough to harvest their red blood cells when they were free from drugs/steroids, so when they doped the RBCs back in, they wouldn't re-introduce the banned substances.)
It's depressing, but I don't know what to think.