The Union International Cycling (UCI) is preparing to prohibit the use of carbon monoxide on the occasion of its steering committee which meets Friday January 31 and Saturday February 1 in Arras, on the sidelines of the Cyclo-Cross Worlds. As has been the case in the past with, for example, tramadol, the UCI takes the lead to banish, at least in its potentially diverted version, a method that remains at this stage authorized by the World Anti -Doping Agency (Ama ) But which agitates the world of bicycle. The controversy was born during the last Tour de France after the publication of a collective escape specialized media article indicating that at least three teams, including UAE of Tadej Pogacar and Visma de Jonas Vingegaard, had used a monoxide recycler carbon. This device makes it possible to measure the total mass of hemoglobin and, by extension, the benefits of altitude training on the body. Questioned by the press during the Tour, Vingegaard and Pogacar had recognized its use, while dragging the case. “There is nothing suspicious,” said the first, insisting that the process was used only to measure blood volume. “We blow in a ball for a minute for a test that we have to do two weeks apart. I only did the first part because for the second, the girl who had to do it never came. It’s not like breathing it every day, ”added Pogacar.
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Cycling is preparing to ban the use of carbon monoxide
