Sometimes I wonder about this sport. Cycling is taking its anti-doping policy a little far. I was reading the velonews article about Alessandro Petacchi and that he was banned from Nov. 1 to Aug. 31, 2008, nullifying his Giro wins and any other wins during that time. Why? Because he had an elevated level of Salbutamol, an asthma inhaler. Petacchi took too many puffs and now is losing out because of it. I understand that the sport is trying to keep the riders clean, and sublatumal is a drug that helps riders, but the guy has asthma and he made a mistake. It seems pretty harsh to ban him for that.
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