Doping and Metabolic Injury in Elite Sports | Olympics & Tour de France | Dr. Eric Heiden MD
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- Orthopedic surgeon and US Olympic hero, Dr. Eric Heiden MD discusses the doping strategies of the Eastern Bloc during his Olympic career and within elite Cycling. He also explains the significant metabolic and orthopedic injuries that cyclists are experiencing as a result of their specialized training for the Tour de France and other major cycling events.
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No one will ever repeat what he did in speed skating during the 1980 Olympics !!! Greatest feet I've ever witnessed in sports.
If someone does threaten his records, it'll be amazing to watch. ESP
Always great to hear from Dr. Heiden.
Lol, interesting to hear Eric talk about female skaters from the DDR back then. I was on Canada's national jr team and sr. training squad, and broke 40 in the 500 in my 4th year as a skater so I was headed right into Eric's territory (wasn't quite his level yet) when I found myself in Chemnitz (then known as Karl Marx Stadt). I turned in a so-so performance but had a bit of s slip (to my knee) in one of the 1000m events and got to see Krista Rothenberger's name ahead of mine on the score sheet at the end. She was perhaps a hundredth of a samalog point ahead. So yeah, I was easily in the top fifty men in the world, had a small slip and an East German woman took my spot. Not just that, I'd only have been a hundredth ahead of her (max) if I'd put in a perfect competition. Oh, I wasn't the last placed male in that competition either. (down there though, I think I was second last)
He still looks great for his age.
He does! ESP
40 years ago doping didn't exist? what planet is he living on? doping was state sponsored in the soviet union and eastern block countries from the 70's all the way up to the fall of berlin wall in 1989. so for 2 decades doping were very heavy. back then they didn't have out of competition drug testing. i would say sports are a lot cleaner now than they were during the 70's and 80's.
Hi Mina, you didn't understand what we were saying. 40 years ago a lot of the advanced sport medicine techniques didn't exist, the support systems, the sports science that exists today. But yes, doping sure did exist back then and yes, it was not tested let alone regulated. Who knows if sports are a lot cleaner than they are now, I sure hope so and feel so with the american side. Didn't mean to upset you, take care. ESP
@@espsportsmedicine-lifeands6115 lol. no no i'm not upset. i simply misunderstood you. i apologize.
@@espsportsmedicine-lifeands6115 Yeah, I spent a lot of time at those same tracks just a year behind Eric and I was never asked to pee in a cup. I even jacked a 220 yard record using exceptionally strong coffee. Not strictly illegal according to the rules at the time but there must have been some max caffeine level they considered too high, and I was probably above it. But, that was it. I used beer and an aspirin (one time) to cheat a cardiovascular test (to stay on the team) after having guessed that it would work (almost too well, they nearly re-tested because they did not believe what they were seeing after looking at my flabby body). And that's it. It just wasn't an issue. And, go look at old high school football teams from that era, they weren't into it yet either. Look at them now (!).