http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news/2007/jan07/jan19news

It just amazes me at the high rate of asthma among pro cyclists. At this guy is claiming he is the real winner. Yeah right. Just give Floyd the title and be done with it. They all dope, you're kidding yourself if you think otherwise.

Hmmm...this seems to have less to do with cyclists doping and more to do with the idiots who run pro cycling f'ing up this sport. Pereiro has a waiver to use the drug from the UCI. But now the French are questioning whether or not the waiver is legit. How can one French agency over-rule or question the regulations of the international governing body? There must be one set of rules in cycling that apply to everyone. Period.

By the way, even a French lab found that Pereiro's drug of choice has no performance enhancing effect on cyclists. http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=3082908

Maybe the French will nail the top 6 finishers for doping and Cyril Dessel will be named the winner.

I just watched the French News le Journal, and this story was reported.... What WAS reported was that Pereiro WON the tour.... I thought that would not be decided until Landis exhausted all his appeals....
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As a user of albuterol myself, I know how asthma can rob you of all your power and can give you the O2 if you use it.... Of course if your not asmatic and you use it, I guess its a double plus...

It took me many years to realize what was wrong with me, as I do not need it for regular activity, but for cycling, its essential equipment.... more than water....

As for pereiro, Im suprised that this information did not come out before... and should be ALLOWED.... I know that is going to stir the pot here.... But I also believe there should be a formal test to validate the condition... If truely asmatic, then the test results should be public...

I read somewhere that 30% of the pro peloton riders claim to be asthmatics and need inhalers and albuterol. I didnt realize pro cycling was a such a haven for asthmatics. I can assure you albuterol is used as a performance enhancer and just because Peirero had a script for it doesnt hold much weight. Just as easy as pro cyclists can find Drs to dope them they can find Drs to right bogus scripts.

I read somewhere that 30% of the pro peloton riders claim to be asthmatics and need inhalers and albuterol. I didnt realize pro cycling was a such a haven for asthmatics. I can assure you albuterol is used as a performance enhancer and just because Peirero had a script for it doesnt hold much weight. Just as easy as pro cyclists can find Drs to dope them they can find Drs to right bogus scripts.

I never had asthma related symptoms, until I started riding a bike outside a lot. And then, I got it. It had to do with the air not being clean, and breathing in lots of exhaust fumes over the course of many rides. This is what my doctor told me. Aside from that, there are plenty of world class athletes who are asthmatics, you'd be surprised. Albuterol isn't going to help you out that much in competition anyway, it just lets you breathe like a normal person, if you're an asthmatic. If you're a regular non-asthmatic, it doesn't do hardly anything for you, as your bronchial tubes are already of normal size. Albuterol, and other bronchial dialators expand the closed bronchial airways. They don't give you a boost in performance.

By the way, even a French lab found that Pereiro's drug of choice has no performance enhancing effect on cyclists.

Most of the drugs on the WADA prohibited list probably aren't performance enhancing depending on what sport you look at or maybe even for any given sport. It doesn't matter. As an athlete in a WADA supervised sport, you can't fail a dope test for any of them.

The UCI's grand mistake was agreeing (being "forced") to be become a WADA sport to keep their Olympic status. They should have done like the NBA and created a "sham" Olympic governing body to oversee/pick athletes for the Olympics, while the UCI continued to run the everyday non-Olympic related business of pro cycling. Then the vast majority of cyclists wouldn't be subjected to the WADA rules and the doping could have gone on with much less media attention, as it always had.

They'd still have the problems of the police involvement revealing the doping but at least guys wouldn't be getting popped on the drug tests so often or the UCI could deal with failed tests discretely.

The way things are going, we might as well skip right to the lantern rouge and award him the 2006 TDF win. Everyone else is probably considered suspect.

They should just legalize doping. Even with all the riders getting caught, they are still catching more riders. It is sad to say, but many more will follow or possible deaths from it.