Team Sky’s nemesis, The Daily Mail, published a story yesterday claiming that the team explored the effects of Viagra on its riders at a training camp in 2010 to establish whether it had any performance-enhancing benefits.
The Sky train working hard
Although Viagra is more commonly used for enhancing performance in the bedroom, anti-doping experts have been campaigning to have it placed on the banned list for athletes as it relaxes the walls of the cardiovascular system and improves blood flow. “Vitamin V’ as it has been called could give a rider an unfair advantage.
No athlete is under suspicion of any wrong-doing as no doping violation has been breached. However the Daily Mail suggests that Team Sky showed a “willingness to explore the possibility of its performance enhancing uses” by getting its riders to test it on a training camp.
The revelation has, of course, generated a slew of tweets such as ‘Sky do it the hard way’, ‘couldn’t go any faster but could ride all night’, 'might explain why so many on sky are massive w***ers’, and ‘this gets harder and harder…to believe’.
