Tour de France riders are inhaling carbon monoxide in 'super altitude' recipe
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Tour de France riders are inhaling carbon monoxide in 'super altitude' recipe
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#6This sounds very stupidly dangerous. I’m amazed this is legal, and that people would do it in the first place.
I get wanting to win at all costs but this is nuts.
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#8I wonder what'll happen if/when it leads to a fatality:
> Other details like optimal dosage are still very much in question as well. [...] Aside from the risk of death, acute carbon monoxide poisoning can cause lasting health problems, including delayed neurological damage. [..."]But if you inhale carbon monoxide, the half-life is 300 minutes. If you get toxic levels, you’re really screwed” because the gas can’t leave your body for hours. [...] And in especially acute cases, victims would need access to a hospital equipped with a special hyperbaric chamber for treatment.
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#9This sounds very stupidly dangerous. I’m amazed this is legal, and that people would do it in the first place. I get wanting to win at all costs but this is nuts.
I don't know what it is about cycling that seems to concentrate some of the most insane physiological manipulation (not sure if that's the right phrase tbh).
Other sports like baseball/tennis/etc seem to have some issues with like general steroids. But the level that cyclists go to always seems to exceed them by orders of magnitude.
I don't know how true it is, but I've heard that some cyclists had/have to set alarms throughout the night so they wake up to do jumping jacks to get their heart rates back up above the "artificial" 15bpm that their training + cocktail of drugs has caused.
Re: Tour de France riders are inhaling carbon monoxide in 'super altitude' recipe
#10I understand inhaling carbon monoxide to be common practice for road cyclists.