Landis Testing Positive

Dave Larrington wrote:

.. The idea that a rider would take

Quoted message said:

testosterone for just one stage in the middle of the race is beyond
belief, not least because, if my understanding of the way these things
work is even in the same county as the truth, it would have no
performance-enhancing effect whatsoever.

Squarely in the Land of Odd indeed.

in the Metro he claimed to have been taking hormones for a thyroid
condition for some time.....

Dave Larrington said:

I am not a doctor, nor I have pretended to be one for the purposes of
joining an exclusive golf club, but a bloke on the telly last night said
that athletes taking testosterone did so to improve muscle build-up. As

Yes, it's used for that, but apparently a low dose as a one off will speed
up recovery muchly. That's a different use to building muscle.

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Arthur Clune