Reuters: Landis fails doping test

Anyone know what the benefits would be to having a low level of testosterone if that's what actually happened?

 

It made Richard Simmons millions upon millions of dollars.

 

Innocent until proven guilty? What are you, some kind of commie?

This is America! You are judged by knee-jerk public reaction. That is what matters, not your 'innocent until proven guilty' and 'due process' crap. Go back to Russia!

 

I remember seeing that report. Don't remember what came of it though.

 

rimshot!!

 

Just babbling...

I read a huge thing on the differences between what the cyclists take and what baseball players take. It basically said in some ways, it's on the opposite end of the spectrum. Baseball players want to bulk up-- cyclists don't.

What if he took a corticosteroid... something to suppress the pituitary. That would bring down some of his testosterone. It would also explain the degenerative hip.

But you'd think his testosterone would not be too low because of his facial hair.

 

I wonder how ANYONE could compete in the Tour--three weeks of impossibly grueling bicycling--and not cheat.

 

Interesting. The hip injury didn't just come out of nowhere, it's been an issue since a crash, but I guess it still could have been effected.

This is weird. Why do you cheat in the one way that they will almost surely catch you?

 

Yeah... that's what I'm thinking. You can break your hip and not have to have it replaced. Any doctor will tell you the number one side effect of an oral corticosteroid is "necrosis of the hip."

Why that particular drug makes that particular body part vulnerable, I don't know. I wish DocTalk were here... He's a great expert on the endocrine system.

 

I called Uma, she gave me an explination which I am too clueless to recite with any degree of accuracy.

So I put in a PM to DocTalk and I hope he sheds light on this for us.

 

Rats! I would've loved to have heard her answer. Next time, record it and transcribe. ;D

 

Better yet, put her on a webcam and let her address the populace. ;D