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Die Frage der Gesundheitsgefährdung beantwortet Michael Rasmussen übrigens so:

"Naum: Were you not afraid for your life, when you take these substance, EPO for example which can stop your heart during your sleep?

Rasmussen: No, like the whole health perspective is, its a completely different discussion, and the cyclists are not concerned about their health. Its, its a requirement to exercise, to do the sport in the first place, its not even a question mark. And when we are riding downhill with 80-100kph on tyres that are this thick, it does not really make sense to do that, just because you have 180grams of polystyrene on your head. Its not a matter of health, and it does not make any sense at all. It doesn’t make sense to do sprints at 70kph, and you have riders left and right and people are crashing, it does not make health to stop to Tour de France. If you consider Tour de France as a workplace, they would shut it down immediately, because you know when you start with 200 people within the next three weeks you have four broken collarbones, maybe a broken hip, you have people being hospitalised pretty much every day, and nobody in their sound mind would work in a place like that, of course, and nevertheless its the biggest annual sports event, and people do it year after year after year. So health is not an issue."

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