Simple control or undercover doping tool? The International Cycling Union (ICU) It is fixed on Banned use of carbon monoxide At your committee management meeting held on Friday and Saturday in Arras, regardless of the Ciclocross World world.
As has happened in the past with the TramadolFor example, for example, ICU takes the initiative to prohibitat least its potential misuse, A way that the World Anti -Doping Agency (FATHER)But that brings a stir in a sport full of traps cases for a long time.
Controversy appeared in previous Tour de France After the publication of an article in expert collective escape media which indicated that somehow Three teamsBesides the UAE with Tadej Pogacar and Visma with Jonas Vingegaard, They used a carbon monoxide recycler. This device Measure total hemoglobin mass And, by extension, The benefits of altitude training at the agency.
Interified by the press during the tour, Vingegaard and Pogacar recognized the use of the deviceBut they have reduced the importance in this regard. «There is no weakness here“Vingegaard said, asserting that the procedure was only used to measure blood volume.
«Blogs in a wolf for a minute for a test you need to do two weeks separately. I just did the first part because of the second, the girl who had to do it never appeared. We will never crack every day, ”Pogacar added.
The skill itself is not illegal. «Inhalation of carbon monoxide is a very standard procedure that has proven twenty years ago. There is no other way to determine the height benefits of accuracy, “said Eau’s performance coordinator in December, JEROEN SWART.
«We did this for 18 months. The process ends. We don’t have to perform this kind of tests and we don’t plan to do it»He added.
As for the idea of using repeated inhalations to create artificial hypoxia to improve performance, Jeroen Swart is category: «I see nothing to do it, it’s not realistic“The Escote Collective article crosses” sensationalist.
Despite this, There are many protagonists of this sportApart from them the motion for a captivity -believed cycling (MPCC), They urged the ICU to be announced in this gas toiletusually caused by mortal domestic accidents.
Team leaders also spoke Marc Madiot. Meanwhile, the team rejected comments associated with Jonas Vingegaard Through the newspaper Le Monde in an interview published on January 18 in which Danish demanded the ban on father’s carbon monoxide and claimed to be «Some equipment transfers its use of regular inhalation of low doses of carbon monoxide, causing a significant increase in the performance of its runners».
«Jonah didn’t say that. We never accuse anyone»Said his team. Last fall, UCI asked the housewife to announce this matterBefore announcing in the middle of -December that He will ask his own management committee to inhibit the use of gas «for medical reasons».
«Repeat inhalation in non -conditional conditions may cause Effects number Dolores of Head, fatigue, Nausea, Vomiting, chest pain, Breathing difficulties And even loss of awareness», Explains the authority.
However, Its use «in a medical environmentby competent medical personnel and in strict context of review of total hemoglobin mass » It will remain authorized.
Ultimately, ultimately, The ICU expects the father to follow the example of this, just as it happened in Tramadol. This powerful analgesic is forbidden in cycling in 2019, which Cause of the Disqualification of Colombian Nairo Quintana from Tour de France of 2022.
Five years later, it is also included in the list of prohibited products and father’s components, with a more difficult penalty to come.
Source: La Verdad
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