Saturday 27 October 2012

Armstrong Once Predicted His Possible End

The disgraced cyclist, Lance Armstrong, once eerily forecasted what all would happen to him if he ever got caught in a doping scandal. He said he would be losing all his sponsors and people who trust him, even cancer survivors.

Armstrong said so under oath in deposition testimony from 2005. CNN now will broadcast portions of it after obtaining the video of that testimony as part of its documentary, "The World According to Lance Armstrong."
For more than a decade, the cyclist has denied doping but this time the cyclist is under oath and possibly committing perjury in a dramatic show of defiance for the world to see.

The video provides further context and takes on new meaning in light of recent events even though much of the content of his testimony previously was made public in writing.

"What the testimony shows is Lance Armstrong's willingness to perjure himself - and not just once but repeatedly, again and again and again," said Quentin McDermott, who reported the documentary. "What it also demonstrates very clearly is his willingness to smear and vilify those eyewitnesses who were prepared to tell the truth."

When asked what would happen if he were found to be guilty of doping and whether sponsorship agreements would go away, he said, "All of them," Armstrong testified on Nov. 30, 2005. "And the faith of all the cancer survivors around the world. So everything I do off of the bike would go away too. And don't think for a second I don't understand that. It's not about money for me. Everything. It's also about the faith that people have put in me over the years. So all of that would be erased. So I don't need it to say in a contract you're fired if you test positive. That's not as important as losing the support of hundreds of millions of people."

Friday 19 October 2012

Team Sky Riders And Staff To Sign Anti-Doping Pledge

After the damaging case of disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong, who has been accused of being a serial drug cheat, Team Sky has told its riders and management to sign a pledge declaring they have never doped.

Team Sky made it very clear that those don't sign would be thrown off the squad. The team said we would ask everyone, including riders and the management, to sign up to a written policy for confirming that they have no past or present involvement in doping. The team includes Tour de France winner Bradley Wiggins, runner-up Chris Froome, and top sprinter Mark Cavendish and said it wants to "reaffirm" its commitment to a clean sport.

Dave Brailsford, the boss of Team Sky, informed his charges of the policy on the first day of their end-of-season camp. The statement from the team also added that it is important to be open about the steps we are taking and Team Sky wants only those members who are free of the risks of doping and the new rule applies to management, support staff, and riders.

After the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) released a lengthy and detailed report accusing Lance Armstrong and his United States Postal Service team of widespread doping, Team Sky sports director Sean Yates who worked with Armstrong when they were both employed by the Motorola and Astana teams denied any knowledge of doping. A key member of Sky's 2012 Tour-winning team, Australian Michael Rogers who worked with disgraced doctor Michele Ferrari, also denied using performance enhancing drugs.

Friday 12 October 2012

Most sophisticated doping program



The 1,000-page report from the US Anti-Doping Agency has described the Lance Armstrong's United States Postal Service team as running "the most sophisticated, professionalised and successful doping program that sport has ever seen".
The anti-doping agency sets out its case against US national icon and cancer-campaigning champion and the former cycling hero as a bully who coerced his teammates into taking performance enhancing drugs and a cheat who made payments of thousands of dollars for doping programs.
The report concluded Lance Armstrong's goal of winning made him go dependent on EPO, testosterone, and blood transfusions and he even coerced his teammates to use drugs or be replaced.
The lawyers of Armstrong attacked the report as "a one-sided hatchet job, a taxpayer-funded tabloid piece rehashing old, disproved, unreliable allegations based largely on axe-grinders, serial perjurers, coerced testimony, sweetheart deals and threat-induced stories."
The report lists nine witnesses: Frankie Andreu, Michael Barry, Tom Danielson, Hincapie, Levi Leipheimer, Stephen Swart, Christian Vande Velde, Jonathan Vaughters and David Zabriskie. Floyd Landis, a former teammate of the cyclist, said Armstrong doped and Tyler Hamilton – whose revelatory book has just been named on the shortlist for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year – soon joined to attack the American cyclist, who won the Tour de France seven times and now may face perjury charges for making a false statement that he never used performance enhancing drugs.

Friday 5 October 2012

Benefits Of Mesterolone-Proviron Advantages

Proviron or Mesterolone originally developed as a drug for treating depression in men gained prominence as a potent drug to treat sexual dysfunction and promoting the count and quality of sperm. This drug is also used for improving the release of luteinizing hormone and follicle-stimulating hormone to stimulate testes so that the level of naturally-producing testosterone can be improved to a significant extent.

The IUPAC name of Proviron is 1 alpha-methyl-17 beta-hydroxy-5 alpha-androstan-3-one and it has an active life of eight to twelve hours. Proviron can be detected over a period of 5-6 weeks and is indicated medically to treat serious wellness problems such as low libido and erectile malfunction. Mesterolone also has the potential to enhance potency of testosterone when used in an anabolic steroid cycle and can be used as an effective anti-aromatase. Use of this drug is also associated with an increase in the level of free testosterone that can further promote protein synthesis and muscle gain; Proviron is equally effective in reducing the level of free estrogen in the body by minimizing ability of the estrogen receptors to bind to estrogens.

Mesterolone is even recommended to increase fructose concentration up to normal values to enhance the chances of procreation and routinely prescribed to those with androgen-deficiency, easy fatigability, lack of concentration, weak memory, disturbances of libido, depressive moods, general vegetative complaints, and irritability. Abuse of Proviron may cause side effects like pain in liver area, headache, loss of appetite, depression, unexplained weight loss, aggression, symptoms of an enlarged prostate (change in urination), acne, or hirsutism.