Ulrich Kicked out of Tour

[NickO'Time]

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/200...act/index.html

Check out this link. Interesting.

[Not Afraid]

Originally Posted by TicTocDragon

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/200...act/index.html

Check out this link. Interesting.

WOW. Tough read. They thyroid thing is interesting as well. I know that, with thyroid problems, your whole endochrine system is effected and things can easily get wacky. Damn.

[NickO'Time]

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Here's a possible explanation from John Eustis on ESPN sports talk show:

He failed the test NOT because the testosterone was too high but because the ration of testosterone to epitestosterone(sp?) was too high
and the numbers don't look right to the observers because the ration came out as 11:: 1..... anything over 6::1 is too high.... and again the sample wasn't because the testosterone was so high but because the other component was incredibly low ---- the "hope" is that this artificially low reading might have been the result of all the cortisone shots he takes for the hip ... that's one possibility

another possibility is that he could take a complete endocrine test which might show that he naturally produces these ratios

of course, it doesn't look good to me that he's been tested many times and this result didn't come up before...

Eustis also said the French Press was in heaven, sort of like us Conservatives when Bill Clinton got caught ----- personally, I'd be the first to jump on an anti-France rant at this point, but I have to admire the two French boys in the top 10 as well as the French stage victories.... their best showing in years?

TreZ

This might shed more light on the situation. Its froma local club in Stockton.