On 5/28/06 4:25 PM, in article
[email protected], "Mark
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[email protected]> wrote:
> John Forrest Tomlinson wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 28 May 2006 12:29:40 -0400, "Allez1" <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> http://www.eurosport.com/cycling/sport_sto893840.shtml
>>>
>>
>> From that page: "During the Giro Manzano said he took other illicit
>> substances: Trigon after dinner on day's with mountain stages, HCG
>> Lepori (a feminine hormone) for flat stages, and caffeine before
>> time-trials."
>
> What's "Trigon"? Sounds like a character from Star Trek.
>
> Mark
>
http://www.unc.edu/~hymas/2004_03_01_.html
Trigon (asthma drug)
From above URL:
Manzano nearly died during the 2003 Tour de France stage to Morzine when an
injection he received the morning of the stage was rejected by his body. I
remember seeing pictures of him collapsed on the side of the road (see photo
above) and the official story line was simply "heat exhaustion". According
to Manzano in the March 24th Cyclingnews.com,
"It was the first mountain stage and in the morning they tested a substance
that I had not experimented with. This substance was taken according to your
weight. It is injected into a vein and the unique thing that it does is to
keep your hematocrit low but raise your haemoglobin.
"In the morning they injected 50 ml of this product into me. Before the
start I was in the village, I spoke on the phone with my girlfriend, Marina,
and I told her: 'Prepare yourself, because I know today that I am going to
ride well."
On the day's first climb, the Cat. 2 Col des Portes (km 50), Manzano and
Richard Virenque set off to try and catch the early break with Paolo
Bettini, Rolf Aldag, Médéric Clain and Benoît Poilvet. Virenque would not
work with Manzano as he had Bettini in front, leaving Manzano to try and
close the gap himself. But after three kilometres of climbing, "I started to
have sensations of dizziness, with a lot of heat, very cold sweat, contrasts
of hot and cold, but above all, a lot of cold. In spite of the July heat, I
began to shiver and feel strange. Virenque looked at me and attacked. I went
for another half a kilometre and there was a corner. It was so hot that the
tar of the asphalt had melted...the only thing I remember was that I was
dizzy and I could not longer ride straight, if I crashed, whether they would
carry me off, where they would take me."
