Originally Posted by
Colnago Mixte
What about steroids? Pedro Delgado was busted in the '88 Tour for using Probenicid, a drug used to treat gout, but also useful as a masking agent for steroids. So we can pretty safely assume Delgado was roided up, at least while training for the Tour.
Steroids have been around since the 1930's, and had to have been used by athletes since at least the 1940's. Which ones, we will never know since no one tested for them. But I would be shocked if many of the great names in cycling were NOT using them for probably their entire careers.
EPO. particularly when you could dose with no worry of detection, was the game changer, The rest of this stuff is working at the margins. A gifted clean athlete could compete with dopers before EPO. EPO create enough advantage you really coudn't win at the top level cleam.
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