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Simoni talking it up - can he win the Giro ?

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Old 03-05.-2008, 09:19 AM   #61
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1980's, that was early... You're sure it's not the 1998 study from the vuelta you are thinking of?
Chicharro JL, Hoyos J, Bandre´s F, Terrados N, Fernandez B, Lucia A. Thyroid hormone levels during a three week professional road cycling competition. Horm Res 2001: 56: 159–164.

I do not have access to the article, but according to other articles, they reported haemoglobin and haematocrit levels at the end of the vuelta on the 16 riders they studied (13.8 +/- 0.7 g/dLand 41.9 +/- 2.4 %). I do not know if they reported the levels at the beginning, but that seems propable.
No I don't think that is it. I'll look for it again on Monday if I have time. And re-reading my post, I don't think the mean was around 2-4% drop but 2-4 Hct points which would obviously be a higher percentage but I'm pretty sure between 2 and 3 standard deviations did cross 0 indicating a small percentage of riders should either maintain or increase their HCT.
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Old 03-05.-2008, 12:27 PM   #62
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A post by smoothie in BF circa July, 2005 that may be interesting. It relates to hematocrit being an outdated benchmark of doped blood even then....

but there are some dodgy doping doctors involved in that study.

"heamatocrit and blood paramaters of high performance athletes over 3 weeks of high level competition"

BS if you know they are doing EPO.
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Old 03-05.-2008, 12:29 PM   #63
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Crank, Smoothie is good, but he is not always right on the money, some of his info is not 100% correct.

But re: the doping culture, and knowledge of whats what, he is down with it.
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Old 03-05.-2008, 01:35 PM   #64
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Gibo is talking it up saying that he will bust balls and take DiLuca in the Giro and that Cuengo is a piece of shit.... I think actually think in a dope free Giro he can win.... like I mean who else is there ?
Considering that Simoni's mouth is as big as your's and that he is as big a whinger as you I can see your affinity for him. But Simoni's talent was never as big as his mouth. His wins outside of Italy are virtually non existent. His wins in the Giro only happened because all of the real talent was pointing for the Tour. Now Simoni is washed up and the only attention that he can get is by running his mouth. Again, just like you. If Simoni can get into the top 5 it will be pure luck and the fact that very few of the best riders will be in the Giro once again. In fact, you can find more talent in most of the second and third tier races than you will find in this year's Giro. But even with that, rantin Simoni won't make the podium. I guarantee it.
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