Cyclists from France combine many prohibited medications for increase of performance

Intake of anabolic steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs is widespread among amateur and professional sportspersons. It isn’t surprisingly, when sportspersons test positive for banned products. But there are certain unusual cases, when an individual tests positive for many banned drugs. Here is a case.
The teenage amateur French cyclist Alexandre Dougnier tested positive for over 10 prohibited substances, including over 5 steroid metabolites. It was at a race in France in May, 2011. This person has been sentenced to 3-year ban from competitions.
It was defined that Alexandre Dougnier had taken such steroids, as Anavar, Dianabol and Winstrol. Other steroid metabolites which were discovered in his urine sample were following;  3-Hydroxystanozolol, 16b-Hydroxystanozolol, 4b-Hydroxystanozolol, Oxandrolone, epi-Oxandrolone, 6b-Hydroxymethandienone and 17-epi-Methandienone.
This amateur cyclist was a member of the Parisian Athletic Club de Boulogne-Billancourt. Several persons mention that Alexandre Dougnier might have been a follower of the club’s doper Jacques Anquetil. This person has been considered to be a celebrated individual of cycling’s history. He was a member of the club de Boulogne-Billancourt in 1950s and 1960s. He was the first cyclist who had won the Tour de France 5 times. This cyclist had received also 2 Olympic medals.
Jacques Anquetil used steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs. Furthermore, this cyclist defended doping during a TV debate with the French sports minister. He noted that it was not possible to endure cold, heat waves and rain in mountains during cycling without doping. He claimed that only a fool individual would endure this agony linked with the extreme sport of cycling without performance-enhancing drugs. This celebrated cyclist noted that drug testing might deprive individual liberty. Jacques Anquetil concluded that everyone doped.
It is necessary to know steroids were not so widespread among cyclists in 1950s and 1960s. Intake of more dangerous amphetamines was more widespread during those years. As for usage of anabolic steroids, it has become more enhanced during past two decades.
Let see which affirmations have been said about steroids, when other cyclists have been caught using them. When the cyclist Floyd Landis was caught applying testosterone, it was argued by his legal team that neither anabolic steroids, nor other performance-enhancing drugs were able to increase performance in cyclists.  As for the distributor of steroids Joseph Papp, he didn’t agree with this affirmation. He mentioned that usage of steroids was widespread in elite cycling. According to his words, any individual can take testosterone gels in a clever way without being detected by anti-doping programs: users of transdermal testosterone must take in consideration time of detection.
Alexandre Dougnier wasn’t cautious and didn’t attempt to avoid detection. He probably didn’t suggest that cyclists would be tested for prohibited medicines at the race in Aubervilliers.