The two-time Tour de France champion, Jonas Vingegaard has publicly called for a ban on the controversial method of inhaling carbon monoxide. used by athletes to measure their performance. In an interview with the newspaper ‘Le Monde’, the Visma-Lease a Bike rider pointed out that his team makes appropriate use of the technique, but some riders abuse it to artificially increase their performance.
The use of carbon monoxide came into the spotlight during last year’s Tour de France when the cycling website ‘Escape Collective’ reported that cyclists from some teams inhaled the toxic gas to optimize their altitude training. The gas can be used as a tracer to monitor the diffusion of oxygen in the lungs or the total mass of hemoglobin.an important amount of blood for runners.
“My equipment uses carbon monoxide to measure blood volume and total hemoglobin mass”said. “We inhaled the monoxide for the first time, before a phase of altitude training. At the end of the course, the operation was repeated to calculate the maximum oxygen absorption capacity,” explained the Dane about the use of carbon monoxide at Visma-Lease a Bike.
But Vingegaard believes the gas can be used to illegally improve performance. “Low doses of carbon monoxide can be inhaled regularly, leading to a significant increase in performance. “This is not right and should be banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency,” he concluded.
Source: La Verdad
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