Katie Compton's statementĬompton released an official response to the USADA suspension: The USADA statement did not list the specific anabolic agent in question. The list of anabolic androgenic steroids (AAS) published by USADA is substantial, and includes familiar names like testosterone. What is an anabolic agent?Īnabolic agents are powerful performance-enhancing drugs. Discrepancies in the biological passport program apparently prompted the follow-up testing. While USADA has not shared the specific details at this time, a urine sample was analyzed with a Carbon Isotope Ratio test, designed to differentiate between the anabolic androgenic steroids (which are produced naturally by the human body) and anabolic agents of external origin, which are, of course, prohibited. ![]() Per the USADA press release, Compton tested positive on a drug test conducted out of competition on September 16, 2020. My comment was fairly tongue-in-cheek, but yes I agree there are gains to be made with all those items I mentioned.A post shared by RideCX (pictured here at the 2019 USA Cycling cyclocross national championship) also had several near-misses at the World Cyclocross Championship, finishing second on four separate occasions. You laugh, but marginal gains from all/most of the above are contributing quite a bit to faster average speeds at all levels of the sport everywhere. Personally, I dont care and I loved the Lance era of super human cycling, but please, lets stop burying our heads in the sand (as a sport)Įdit: And zone 2 training, all the gains are due to zone 2 training We all know that the ridiculous speeds is due to the margin gains of aero bikes, wider and lower rolling resistance tyres and the fact that disc brakes allow the riders to braker later and harder into corners meaning they carry more speed down a decent Times yesterday were crazy, and rather like peak EPO era, the riders barely seemed exerted within a couple of minutes of finishing. UCI seem very happy with such circumstances and a tame media, with sponsorship money once more pouring in, and various oligarchs and dictators happy to open their wallets for them. Micro dosing protocols of innumerable substances are now very well established, and hard to beat without constant daily (and overnight) testing. WADA standards are getting less and less aggressive. Most of the journalists who broke all the anti-doping stories and did investigations in the cycling world have retired or left the sport. I think it's got easier and easier to get away with it, to the point where riders see almost no risk anymore. I fail to see how any professional rider can do what they do without T. There must be products or techniques we're not aware of. This is how Katie Compton was caught by USADA in 2020 after her samples initially passed. No need to draw on a bio passport because the CIR in endogenous testosterone should be consistent with the CIR in other hormones / biochemical compounds produced by the individual. ![]() There's T/E ratio and there's also CIR (carbon isotope ratio) testing. If riders have been on exogenous testosterone from before their first test/measurement and establishment of their baseline bio passport, then they can basically stay on it and keep it at whatever (elevated) levels are within the boundaries of "normal" ![]() ![]() When high levels of testosterone are detected, the ratio between it and epitestosterone are measured. Exogenous testosterone is indistinguishable from endogenous testosterone.
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