Sprinters

[No Mojo]

Friday the commentators on vs. said that for the most part sprinters aren’t involved in doping. Anyone know why that is?

[dmotoguy]

they dont need the extra aerobic capacity?

[maddyfish]

Not a good statement by them, Eric Zabel, the sprinter, is a doper.

[No Mojo]

Thanks, that’s what I was thinking.

[dmotoguy]

a perfectly good statement by them.
look at what zabel listed as his reason he doped for a week during the tdf.
he said that because everyone else was doing it, it would be very hard for him to keep up in the mountains. It was not to win a sprint.

[Voodoo76]

Less day to day pressure. A sprinter, even competing for the Green, can afford to have a bad day. A GC contender can't. As dmotoguy stated, the only pressure is to make the time cut set by the juced up climbers and GC guys.

[VanceMac]

Friday the commentators on vs. said that for the most part sprinters aren’t involved in doping. Anyone know why that is?

Blood doping? Maybe not.
Testosterone? Definitely, in the past, but less so now that testing has caught up.
HGH? Absolutely.

[gpsblake]

Friday the commentators on vs. said that for the most part sprinters aren’t involved in doping. Anyone know why that is?

Disagree. Doping would greatly benefit sprinters in the mountain stages. They have to keep within so many minutes or get dropped by the tour by not finishing in the required time.

One of the best sprinters got dropped from the tour, Robbie McEwen had the fate of not finishing in time.

[Smoothie104]

abdujaparav was a testo head, track sprinters get caught with horse hormones etc..