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Jean Baptiste said he spoke to a doctor who said that Ekperi likely died of an undiagnosed heart problem that was not detected during physical examinations. Nutman said that the medical cause of Ekperi’s death has not been confirmed...
...doctor said that it’s rare but that it happens among young athletes," said Jean Baptiste, who is also a Crimson editor...
Critics, particularly in France, have long accused Armstrong, a cancer survivor, of needing drugs to win his titles. Adding fuel to that fire is recent testimony from an ex-teammate and his wife, first reported in the French newspaper Le Monde. Nearly a decade ago, three days after doctors removed two cancerous lesions from his brain, Armstrong relaxed in an Indiana hospital room with a group of close friends. It was there, says Betsy Andreu, then the fiancé of one of Armstrong's cycling teammates, that the future cycling giant admitted to being juiced. According to Andreu's testimony from...
...Spanish Civil Guard carried out Operación Puerto in late May, raiding several apartments in Madrid, where they found stashes of frozen blood, steroids, growth hormones and EPO, among other substances. Five people were arrested, including a doctor, Eufemiano Fuentes, who has links to many élite riders. The Spanish Cycling Federation handed over a report to Tour officials implicating the three high-profile barred riders in the doping ring. The report also named five riders from the Astaná-Würth team, forcing all nine of its riders off the Tour (a team needs six cyclists to start the race...
...true. The tendency to say "this is how the world is because this is what happened to me" infests every mind. Medicine involves thousands of choices among treatments and diagnostics which often don't have any objective, scientific advantages with respect to one another. Yet we must choose. Every doctor knows he or she can find scientific papers that prove or disprove the same idea; "always do this" and "never do this." Sometimes they're even in the same journal. In the 1950s, scientific authorities told the public they should eat butter, eggs and caffeine. Then they said they shouldn...