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Und naiv war ich in den 90ern, als ich begeistert Ullrichs erste Erfolge bei der Tour im Fernsehen verfolgte und den relativ großen Rückstand, den ich selbst damals trotz einiger Achtungserfolge auf die Weltspitze im Ironman (Zäck, van Lierde) hatte, zu hundert Prozent auf fehlendes Talent und suboptimales Training zurückführte.

Mittlerweile habe ich schon einen ganz guten Einblick in die Realität und Mechanismen des Profisportes und würde mir manchmal die Naivität früherer Jahre zurückwünschen.

nein, du bist naiv. Ich zitiere mal Texte aus einer Seite die ich bei o.g. Googlesuche gefunden habe. Es wird das komplette Spektrum an Hormonen, Steroiden etc. angeboten. Pharmafirmen aus China, Rumänien, Indien, Thailand .... Weltweite Lieferung wird garantiert. Geworben wird mit FEDEX und DHL! (Ich verlinke bewusst nicht)
Es gibt sogar einen Q&A-Bereich. Hier ein paar Auszüge
My serious answer is — it's cheating. There were other comments among the many that I had shared with all those who had responded to my survey. Sandy was one of those respondents. Sandy is a champion cyclist in her late 60s, who found it hard to believe that a senior competitor would take EPO, or do any kind of doping. He wrote: “I can certainly understand the motivation that might drive a pro or a national class athlete vying for the Olympics to take EPO. There is lots of glory and cash directly related to the level of performance. But, can you as a world-class athlete even name the person who won your age group at the last nationals or worlds? Probably not. It is difficult to conceive of an age grouper playing with his health for a result that probably won't even make his local newspaper. I broke two time trial state records in December. One by 29 seconds, and the other is the top time in the nation. It was not worthy of even a sentence in the local paper. Am I going to dope to impress my friends? I don't think so. I need one example to the contrary.”

Jon, another champion 70-plus triathlete, weighed in along similar lines:
If a 70 year old will cut the course at a world's competition, as did a German in 2007 just to get on the podium, some others will probably take illegal, dangerous substances for that imagined edge. (By the way, the cheater was caught and banned for life by the German federation and the ITU.) I think age groupers are taking steroids (growth hormones and probably testosterone). These are cheaper, more available and easier to use than EPO.

The triathlete magazines are full of ads for bogus stuff represented to enhance performance. Obviously the stuff is selling, which supports my theory that people will put anything into their bodies that they think will make them faster or stronger. It's naive to think the people you are writing about would decline something reputed to enhance their results. Most act like they are immortal though they know better, in that they seem not to believe the ill effects mentioned in warnings apply to them. What about those of us who are witnessing our own slowing, and who are bombarded with 'anti-aging; ads? Are we now so much wiser that we can accept gracefully the fact that we can't run as fast as we used to? Few of us are, as the success of the ant-aging stuff demonstrates. Do I think that those in the upper age groups would take EPO? Yes - and anything else that promised to prevent or postpone the inevitable. Do I know anyone who has taken EPO? I have not asked, and no one has told me.

Wenn ich ich den Q&A-Bereich über Epo & Drug Testing durchlese, wird mir schlecht. 10000E Epo kosten ca. 311 €. Ist das teuer?

Für Aerolaufräder werden 2000€ ausgegeben .......