from today's paper
says he served a 3 month ban this past summer for testing positive for a banned stimulant.
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just great
exactly WHO is clean anymore?
Swimming World described his med as a stimulant,but I was unfamiliar with it and looked it up. Trimetazidine is a cardiac medication given for angina which improves blood flow. Again,I am not familiar with the med,so I don't know that there are not legitimate reasons to give it to a young,healthy athlete, but it seems fishy to me.
He was taking a med that enabled his heart to pump blood more efficiently. It does have medical uses and he did have a script for it but I am pretty sure it was not medically necessary for him. Plus it is a new and relatively little used drug that might slip under the radar in drug testing for the most commonly abused PED's.
circres.ahajournals.org/.../580.long
Why would a distance athlete want to shift from fatty acid to glucose metabolism?
Wouldn't they (distance types) rather switch skeletal muscles to fat metabolism?
Something like Micardis does that via PPAR-gamma magic.
His longest event is fourteen and a half minutes. Is that truly endurance? No way. Muscle glycogen is the primary fuel for a pool mile even for me, and Sun Yang would lap me four times on my best day. It's not a 10K or a Channel swim.