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AUGUST 2013
TCSD Events 3 TCSD Contacts 4 Board Members 4 Weekly Workout Calendar 5 New Members 5
TRIATHLON CLUB OF SAN DIEGO
AUGUST CLUB MEETING Thursday, August 29th Location: Fucntion Smart/UCPT 10803 Vista Sorrento Parkway, Suite 100 San Diego, CA 92121
Refer to the Club’s website for complete/updated information.
TCSD: On The Podium 6 TCSD Conversation 7 Member Profile 10 Coach’s Corner: Swim Speed 17 Race Report: June Lake 18
Cycling Tips: Core Training Gear Check Get a Job Newsletter Corrections
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TriNews
n the wake of the scandal in 2013 that brought the seven-time winner of the Tour de France to confess he had doped, lied and bullied to win, professional and amateur sports redoubled their efforts to keep games and competitions clean. Performance-enhancing drugs, or PEDs, had a long history of use and abuse in cycling, track and field, baseball, and other sports. Everyone agreed it had to stop. For a few years after the confessions in pro bicycling rocked the world, sports organizations retained strict procedures and drug testing. But in doing so they lost something else—a sense of bravado and stepping over the line that thrilled the fans, stoked the fire of competition, and filled the coffers of sponsors. No one broke records anymore. No one was juiced. Fans, competitors, and sponsors wanted to re-ignite excitement in their sports. The first sport to cross that line was professional cycling. Sponsors and teams organized an alternative professional tour without drug testing, Le Tour de Force. Juicing was legal. May the fastest and strongest competitor win. Alcohol companies, sports car and motorcycle brands,
a n d industries that manufactured high-performance equipment dug into their pockets to sponsor teams. They liked the bad-boy image. Riders who used PEDs touted themselves as HighPerformance, or HiPs, unlike the Olympic-standard, drug-free, Classic athletes. The first Tour de Force proved cycling could thrive with two different A Tale of Fiction standards, HiP and Classic. Following the initial success of two parallel tours in professional cycling, a rena i s s a n c e emerged in triathlon with By Barbara Javor the formation of two camps, HiP and Classic. With most triathletes amateur, age-groupers, the use of PEDs soon permeated the world of weekend warriors who joined the HiP camp. Two global changes occurred almost immediately: modified rules of competition, and the overnight appearance of new internet companies that marketed PEDs. HiP triathlons not only allowed PEDs, but previously banned equipment and rules as well. Competitors could swim with paddles and fins, and a host of different styles sprung into the continued on page 24