Impotence at the Tour de France

professional cycling is chaotic and edgy, thrilling and petty, and often dysfunctional. With recent reports that the treatment of erectile dysfunction, viagra can improve performance on the mountain stages, it can be balanced yet another drug scandal to future races will be beaten.

From Saturday 7 July to Sunday 29 July 2007, the Tour de France of a prologue and 20 stages and covers a distance of 3,550 kilometers. Displayed throughout Europe and around the world, the people at the dedication, endurance, athleticism and pain thresholds over the three weeks of driver gaze. However, the full world of professional cycling drug scandals. A sad fact that led many to doubt whether the physical feats they can be seen in a bike race are real.

Doping is a problem in cycling for a long time (it actually goes back to the early days of the last century when cocaine was used as a stimulant) have been. Here are some of the scandals, the headlines in recent years.

• The pre-race favorite to win this year’s Tour, Alexandre Vinokourov, was the competition after testing positive for blood doping The leader, Michael Rasmussen, was kicked out of the Tour de France by his Rabobank team, during the race 2007th
• The winners of the 2006 Tour, Floyd Landis, tested positive for performance enhancers and is waiting for an arbitration decision on his case.
• The winners of the 1999-2005 Tours, Lance Armstrong never tested positive but a recently published book nonetheless claims he took performance enhancers (an allegation Armstrong vehemently denies and litigiously).
• The winners of the 1998 Tour, Marco Pantani, is dead of a cocaine overdose.
• The winners of the 1997 Tour, Jan Ullrich, moved this year from last year after the race in the Operacion Puerto doping scandal prohibited.
• The winner of the 1996 Tour, Bjarne Riis, recently confessed that he won the race while on EPO and other performance-enhancing drugs.

In a strange it may be a further matter, the officials must be for the test. Recent studies suggest that a dose of viagra will help more cyclists to climb that summit with more success.

The relationship between cycling and impotence has long been a dubious. There are many examples and clinical evidence suggests that cycling numbness and pain in the genital area caused, but whether this corresponds to long-term impotence is unknown. Since no qualified or scientifically acceptable studies carried out, the jury was still out on the subject. However, the relationship between impotence and cycling taken on a somewhat ironic twist.

Following reports that viagra may improve breathing in low oxygen situations, it seems that cyclists may be for erectile dysfunction treatments, regardless of whether they suffer from ED to take to improve their performance.

Erectile dysfunction drugs work by dilating blood vessels, and this effect could be the reason for the improvements in athlete performance at high altitude settings. Following the same procedure that the drug improves blood flow to the penis can also pump blood through the lungs more efficiently.
Was looking at the world of professional cycling dogged by dope scandals, whether this is to add a new dimension to drug testing, remains unknown.