Is Using an Inhaler Doping?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.ย. 2024
- It's a question that has been bouncing around for decades - Asthma inhalers: unfair advantage or leveled playing field?
Retired triathlete TJ Tollakson is going to crack this case wide open as he digs into the science behind inhalers. Will it be revealed they give an advantage after all? Or has it only been a myth all this time...Check out the latest episode, out now!
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Research Articles:
1) Approved Beta-2 Agonists Might Enhance Sports Performance in Non asthmatics:
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2) Pharmaceutical treatment of asthma symptoms in elite athletes -
doping or therapy?
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3) The asthmatic athlete: inhaled Beta-2 agonists, sport performance,
and doping
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4) Ergogenic effects of inhaled beta2-agonists in non-asthmatic athletes
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5) Suspicion Lifts Over Olympic Champion's Use of Asthma Inhaler
www.wired.com/...
6) Some asthma drug can boost sprint and strength performance in athletes
www.sciencedai...
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ABOUT TJ:
TJ Tollakon is the original Dimond creator and the accomplished CEO of Ruster Sports/ Dimond Bikes. Tollakson began racing in 2001 and quickly proved himself a force to be reckoned with on the bike course. TJ is a proud husband and father to 3 children. You can usually find him pounding the pavement in Des Moines, IA or tinkering with his newest idea at the Dimond Bikes headquarters.
TJ has 10 Ironman podium finishes under his belt, with his favorite being his Mont Tremblant victory. After a bumpy road filled with surgeries and numerous setbacks, TJ used this race to prove he was still at his prime and leads the pack. One of his latest accolades was an IM PR of 8:04:17 at IM Arizona. He retired in 2021 with his last race being Ironman Des Moines 70.3 in his hometown.
It would be nice to see a list of *current* Ironman athletes who use inhalers, but I’m sure this is kept secret 🤫
Yeah I want to hear more about doping in triathlon
I feel like in swimming at least there might be a higher proportion of asthmatics compared to the general population as it helps asthmatics develop better breathing practices and the air is more moist so it is the most general sport that asthmatics take up at a young age because of their parents or doctors.
One question...what is athletically-induced asthma? I've heard of elite athletes developing this.
Separately from that question, I have mixed feelings listening to this. I see my partner unable to swim at all days when his asthma is acting up. The medicine certainly gives him an advantage over his asthmatic self... the advantage is that he can participate when otherwise he'd be sitting out wheezing. In his case, he has an allergy that causes asthma.
so, if I win a IM70.3 race as an age grouper and need to use an inhaler, what do the triathlon rules say? disqualified or no consequence?
Depends on the inhaler used. You can check the status of all medications on globaldro.com Age groupers and pros are subject to the same rules.
I’m mildly asthmatic and I really don’t see the advantage to taking an inhaler. But at same time I’m not abusing it looking for it to be an advantage. I’m sure there’s some that do abuse it. I’ve often wondered why so many pros are and it’s very questionable at best.
It's not questionable at all. They're doing it because all the marginal gains add up.
*Stares at Liverpool
interesting topic, asthma has a strong phycological component, just saying
I've got pretty bad asthma. I can't function for most of the year without my inhaler (I get about 3 good months a year). My doctor told me the best way to manage my asthma is to use the inhalers (Symbicort 160/4.5 and Albuterol) as directed and to keep up my cardio exercise. Personally, I work well with goals, so I signed up for a 5k and started training. Then a 10k, then a half marathon, then a marathon, then a sprint, then an Ironman. I'm not threatening a podium spot (35 when I did the ironman with a 15:37). Call it gray doping if you want. It's the best way for me to manage my symptoms, and I'm using the drugs well within the legal limits.
I don't think qualifies as gray doping. Gray doping is using an asthma inhaler for the first time after years of competing as a pro without one because it is providing an advantage.
I really dislike your attitude against inhalers and people who have asthma. Myself I have asthma, I didn't always use a inhaler and I still were one of the best athletes. The thing is that your body adapts when you have asthma because you still need oxygen.. if you check my blood values they are not normal at all - or normally high as my doctor say. Many years ago my levels were not legal, they were classified as doping. But now people know better and the rules changed. Also research show that medicine doesn't give you advantage if you don't have asthma. That's also one of the tests to diagnose people - if medicine works. The only medicine that proved to give some sort of performance gain are not given lightly - there are a bunch that they prescribe first and it was only in sprint performance.
Inhalers are necessary for some but abused by many athletes for performance enhancement.
@@TJ.at.DimondBikes In ny country every 3 person have allergies and about 10% have asthma (big grey zone). Our neighbour country Norway have about 20% of the population who got asthma. They have much better checks for asthma than we do. But it's one of the most common illnesses we have and you have a very bad attitude towards it. It's never going to be an advantage to have a chronic disease while competing in sports. I've used one medicine since I got my diagnose, but a while I ago I've actually stopped responding on it and need more to get my capacity up (testing spirometry at home with device that automatically tell me my dose). There are much worse things to swing at, than people who are dealing with asthma. I had capacity to run sub 60 min halfmarathon when I was 16. I ran 18 km 5-7 times/w +/- 60 min. However I got blood poisoning and my legs got fucked up. After many years I had surgery and I am aiming to become a pro in Triathlon despite my asthma and I know i got the engine. It's just a matter of time after some years not doing sports. Working on getting efficient and lowering lactate to be be able to hold speeds again.
@@andersnyberg4034 is it odd that 70% of the Olympic triathletes use asthma inhalers when less than 10% of people globally have asthma?
@@TJ.at.DimondBikes Not really true. There is a big grey zone when it comes with asthma, because we think of it as something that make people unable to do sports. But it's actually the best way to cope. There are lots of people who have asthma but don't know it. There are lots of pro's or ex Pros who don't take medicine, even though they should. Like the Swedish cyclist Kessiakoff who had bad allergies, but never got a treatment plan for it (read his book, it's really good). But the thing is, with asthma, most people have mild symptoms and thereby don't have severe problems. Elite athletes is a group who are tested and have better check ups with doctors than the average private person. If you take a healthy person and give him asthma medicine, he won't get a boost. It's not magic. If you are ill and you have respiratory problems - then it could help you a bit. Otherwise no.
Yes jerks cheat.!!