Drug testing

You have to be kidding me. Just what cycling needs now, another doping scandal. It's too early to throw Floyd under the bus like so many already have, the US media has pounced, like it always does when a scandal appears. I thought the riders name was to be kept in secret until the B-sample or a guilty verdict was place. What do I know. Does anybody really have any idea what happens to the human body, the metabolism issues, cardiovascular, hormonal, endocrine, regulatory system. The list goes on. You are looking at a complicated network that keeps us doing what we do everyday and to place hard, sustained, painful, efforts, day after day after day. Sure his B-sample can be positive for Testasterone again but why would a cyclist take it, to bulk up, that last thing a climber wants to do is carry his huge 24 inch pythons up the Alp De Huez. Then again, a quick search of Medline shows an article like this

High doses of alcohol increase urinary testosterone-to-epitestosterone ratio in females.

Karila T, Kosunen V, Leinonen A, Tahtela R, Seppala T.
National Public Health Institute, Laboratory of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Helsinki, Finland.

The effect of alcohol (1.2 and 2.0 g/kg) on the urinary testosterone-to-epitestosterone (T/E) ratio was studied by two experiments each conducted with four healthy females and males. The intake of 2.0 g/kg of ethanol within 5 h in the evening significantly increased plasma testosterone concentration and ratio of T/E in urine collected next morning in females. The results suggest that alcohol increases the T/E ratio more in females than in males. The effect of high doses of alcohol on urinary T/E ratio must be kept in mind when doping tests are performed during training periods.

NO matter the outcome, his win, his name have all been tainted. Its done, its draining, exhausting and the effort to debate this is wasted...lets talk about something else....how about those Bears