Cycling now has a zero policy in regard to injections at world tour level
for the teams in the new ethical cycling group. If you read any of the recent
autobiographies (David Millar's in particular) it starts with injecting vitamins
for recovery, then supplements, this develops a culture where adding things
becomes the norm, and from there it is pretty easy to use product x which is
'grey' which is usually lazy language for 'not yet banned but should be'.
they also want to ban the questionable use of cortisone (which is ok for
medical use but not for sports injury). Can anyone name one AFL team that has
*not* given a player the 'magic injection' to put them on the field after a
sports injury? (I'm just pissed off that so called professional sports
journalists don't think that the use of illegal substances is in every sport and
think it is a problem with cycling. Cycling remains the only one to try to do
something about it, and the struggle there is a blue collar culture having to
confront white collar ethics.)
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