Congratulations to brit Simon Yates on winning the La Vuelta a Espana a hard race won.This means that the brits this year 2018 hold all three grand tour wins which i think is a first for usand remember folks without the cycle we would not have the motorcycle
Great result! Those guys are phenomenal - It’s amazing they can do it without resorting to performance enhancing additives.
I’m sure your support and encouragement for anyone who sufferes from asthma that it needn’t be a limitation to performing in sport at the higher levels are very welcome and refreshing. Here are some more examples -footballs very own Beckham managed to do so and it didn’t hold him back. https://www.healthline.com/health/famous-athletes-with-asthma Thanks @Exige for bringing this out and your encouragement.
I googled him to see if he was a Northern lad actually, and found the failed tests and ban due to an inhaler, never heard of him before today...
A professional cyclist on drugs,now what a surpriseI think your find this is been going for a very long time decades maybe and the UCI are very aware of it,but does not make it right
No matter what they do or do not take (I don’t care), they really are amazingly fit. Can you imagine cycling the distances and gradients they do? Who on earth would want to push themselves that hard? Madness!
Wining all three grand tours in one season with three different riders from the same country has never been done before. Also five consecutive grand tours by riders from one country has only been done once before by France with Jacques Anquetil and Raymond Poulidor. Considering that before 2012 a Brit had never won a grand tour and now they’ve won 9 of the last 20 it is quite a turn around in the fortune of British road cycling.
For endurance athletes performance induced asthma is fairly common. Forcing so much air in and out of your respiratory system for 4-5 hours a day has a tendency to cause irritation and inflammation of the airways hence the requirement to take asthma medication. For someone who does not suffer from asthma taking medication for asthma does not have any significant performance enhancing effect. This is why the medication is allowed to be used by athletes as long as its use is controlled. For Simon Yates his four month ban was caused by his team’s doctor failing to submit a therapeutic use excemption for the asthma medication he gave to Simon Yates. Team Sky have successfully shown in their 1500 page submission in support of Chris Froome’s adverse analytical finding at last year’s Vuelta a España that measuring levels of an inhaled drug in urine is a very imprecise way of measuring how much of the drug someone has inhaled.
