Did Bradley Wiggins cheat by taking triamcinolone for his asthma?
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September 28th, 2016
Bradley Wiggins’ leaked medical records show that he had TUE certificates exempting him from the ban on using triamcinolone. He was given the injection 3 times, all times just before he rode in grand tours. Dave Brailsford has stated in the Daily Telegraph that the use was medically appropriate. The drug is a long-acting (2 to 6 weeks) glucocorticoid (a steroid).
So is Bradley a victim of his doctors? Or were his doctor right to give him the drug? Or did he take the drug knowing that it would give him an advantage?
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He didn’t cheat because he had an exemption. Cheating would have been if he did it without an exemption and did not disclose.
It makes sense to take an anti-asthmatic that lasts 2 to 6 weeks before a grand tour. That is when the ability to breathe is most important.
If he has asthma, he needs the steroid to allow his lungs to process oxygen. What’s the big deal?
No, but as Chris Froome said recently in a thinly veiled attack on Wiggins, the TUE rule is wide open to abuse & more stringent criteria is what’s called for.
The fact is that Froome would have won the TDF in 2012 instead of Brad had he not been very much the Sky number 2 at the time, but hey ho, his statement still makes all kinds of sense.
The type of steroids that many athletes have taken secretly to give themselves a sports advantage are ANABOLIC steroids.
Afai asthma steroids are not anabolic steroids.
I looked it up on drugs.com. The injection is recommended for
Allergic states: Control of severe or incapacitating allergic conditions intractable to adequate trials of conventional treatment in asthma, atopic dermatitis, contact dermatitis, drug hypersensitivity reactions, perennial or seasonal allergic rhinitis, serum sickness, transfusion reactions
In other words, very bad allergies that are not controlled by any other medications. Just seems suspicious to me even though I love Sir Bradley :-(
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