How To Dope, How To Not Dope, Results

Feb 10 2006

Screw cycling; if VeloNews has abandoned it (does that have anything to do with bike racing?) then so will I. From now on, this is the world’s sweetest doping blog. Step One: buy the drugs. Step Two: buy some antibodies and an electrophoresis apparatus so you can refine your methods by checking your own urine in the privacy of your own home. Step Three: don’t use legitimate drugs like Sudafed, Propecia or bagels; you don’t want to get busted for something that isn’t even performance enhancing (search “poppy”), do you? Step Four: buy a hematocrit machine (search “machine”) so you can just kiss up against that 50% barrier. Step Five: be careful when you go to alitude; don’t want your first big result to be a high hemoglobin test, do you? Step Six: Watch out for those anti-doping jerks who say you’re “unfit to start”. What ever happened to the Rocky Balboa ethos? “You stop me from racing, I’ll kill ya’!” Like a hemoglobin level of 17.1 g/dl is gonna put your health at risk any more than 16.9 – especially when hematocrit, not hemoglobin, is the determinant of blood thickness. Step Seven: Be a nice dude and good competitor at all times; that way, when you get busted, people will believe you. Step Eight: Finally, if you know you’re gonna get caught, get caught with blood levels that are truly ridiculous (search “60.1″).

If you really don’t want to dope, though, there are many other options available. EP-NO has got to be good, given the number of glaring typos on its webpage. They’ve even got a t-shirt to add some color to your otherwise drab collection of anti-dope apparel. (Personally, though, I prefer Velochimp’s shirt to either). Perhaps I should buy a bottle for Miguel Angel Martin Perdiguero, as the outspoken Spaniard had this to say in reaction to the Heras ban, taken from this story in ProCycling Magazine:

“I am against all sanctions. Life ought to be free for everyone and that should go for cycling as well. This is a cycling [sic] put on in a hypocritical society and it is always we cyclists who end up paying the penalty.”

That’s a fine attitude, Perdi, but I think you just bumped yourself onto Dick Pound’s s&!†list. Returning to the case of the former four-time Vuelta winner, though, Daily Peloton has a bafflingly-constructed article on his saga and appeal. Far more cohesive is Pez-man Nick O’Brien’s rundown of the ’07 TdF’s Grand Depart. And if you must have results, Credit Agricole’s Sebastien Hinault, one of those French sprinters that never seem to sprint, sprinted to victory at the TdL, while Cyril Dessel of Ag2r descended to a stage win and the leader’s jersey at Tour Med.

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10 Responses to “How To Dope, How To Not Dope, Results”

  1. Hulkster February 10, 2006 at 4:36 pm #

    I like how one of the ingredients in EP-NO is dessicated liver. Now, they refer to research at Harvard claiming that treating anemia with liver extract results in an increase in hemoglobin and hematocrit.

    After a brief search, it seems that this discovery also won the Nobel Prize for medicine back in 1934. And yes, one of the researchers was from Harvard.

    Not quite sure that I buy that including dessicated liver in a pill will allow you to crush Ulrich/Basso/Vino like flies.

  2. Anonymous February 10, 2006 at 5:12 pm #

    Cosmo– I think the picture you linked for the gel electrophoresis apparatus is for runnning DNA, not protein.

    To detect protein, you need to run a Western blot. And, I may be wrong here, but I think the test to detect rhEPO involves 2d western blotting.

    What I’m trying to say is that it would be a pretty considerable investment to be testing yourself.

  3. sticky February 10, 2006 at 7:57 pm #

    dude, you are so freakin’ funny…

  4. Anonymous February 11, 2006 at 10:16 am #

    oh man. please don’t be another ‘drug site’. There are enough friggin’ idiots out there ruining thier lives and stealing results, money and fame from the clean ones. don’t give them any more press!! thanks

  5. Frank Steele February 11, 2006 at 11:43 am #

    The Chris Witty story made VN.com because she was a trackie in Sydney. She’s a speedskater who used to ride competitively, like Canada’s Clara Hughes.

  6. Edson Wada April 13, 2008 at 9:49 pm #

    I think you don’t be another ‘drug site’ too.
    Don’t give them any more press! Plesase…

    Edson Wada
    Megabonus – http://www.unicartao.com.br

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