Originally Posted by
globecanvas
My takeaway from Tyler Hamilton's book was that doping is like a training amplifier. if you're talented and train hard, you get more benefit from doping than joe shmoe who takes some pills and expects to be superman.
I remember reading a quote from Bjarne Riis or somebody saying that they selected for talented hard-working riders who happened to have genetically low HCT because they would get the most benefit from EPO. Tommy D was the example.
Superman was clean, a better example would be Captain America.
I don't fully buy the argument that PEDs only amplify training. Dopers like to say crap like that so they don't feel like such cheaters. Sure you have to train but never underestimate drugs. Just look at bulls and gorillas - all they do is eat, rest and screw...