Doping git thread
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No Ta Doctor
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Oh I'm in no way happy about the situation, though I don't know what Gianetti's supposed to have done, I didn't follow.
DCLane
Found in the Yorkshire hills ...
- Location
- Dewsbury, West Yorkshire
An 18 year-old Azerbaijani riders tests positive for Methamphetamine at the Junior Worlds in Rwanda: https://road.cc/content/news/cyclin...m_uLYRgPruBap5WZfD43qvqA#live-blog-item-71881
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FishFright
More wheels than sense
Both , very much so. Also an odd one to take in competion as it's so easy to test for.
AndyRM
XOXO
- Location
- North Shields
This. I thought pot belge was a bit passe, but perhaps not.
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
Users of that one are not famous for their great decision-making skills, are they?
No Ta Doctor
Über Member
FishFright
More wheels than sense
Isn't it dexedrine that's used as the treatment ? Methamphetamine is a very different beast.
No Ta Doctor
Über Member
Lisdexamfetamine (dexys, as in Dexys Midnight Runners) is the more common, though methylphenidate is usually the first choice treatment. It might only be the US that licenses methamphetamine for ADHD
Dogtrousers
Lefty tighty. Get it righty.
What? You can get a prescription for"pot belge"?
Ah. Ok. Not pot belge. My mistake.
As you were.
No Ta Doctor
Über Member
What? You can get a prescription for"pot belge"?
Ah. Ok. Not pot belge. My mistake.
As you were.
My understanding of pot belge was that is was a cocktail of stuff, and amphetamines were part of that (various stuff like opiate painkillers also in the mix I think). I'm not an expert, but lisdexamfetamine is the prodrug of amphetamine. I like to think of this as being like the pro version of various bits of software, but actually it just means it's the inactive precursor that becomes amphetamine through some sort of metabolic pathway. Methamphetamine is a substituted amphetamine, which I think means it was pulled off for tactical reasons at half-time or something.
MadMalx
Well-Known Member
- Location
- Settle, Yorkshire Dales
Methamphetamine is the drug that Walter White was synthesing in Breaking Bad. The 'traditional' method is to make it from pseudoephedrine, and was used as a plotline. It's* a nasal decongestant that I think the Scottish Skier got busted for years back.
*Edit - pseudoephedrine, not Methamphetamine (although that would also be a decongestant)
*Edit - pseudoephedrine, not Methamphetamine (although that would also be a decongestant)
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No Ta Doctor
Über Member
Alain Baxter. That was one of the saddest positives ever. He used the same nasal decongestant he always used, but he bought it in the States, where they chuck heavy drugs in everything, so it wasn't actually the same. Strict liability and all that, but bloody hell. Lost the only Olympic medal ever won by a British skier because of it.
matticus
Guru
Is this a superstition thing? M*cbeth took up skiing?!?
