Aqui resume um pouco como o doping funcionou com ele.
"BF: I can tell you personally what I found so interesting in taking all this stuff. It wasn’t like all of a sudden I was Superman. That, I was really disappointed by. I had this idea, “I’m going to take EPO and testosterone and HGH and all this stuff. And all of the sudden, I’m just going to go out there and wow, I’m going to beat all my Strava times.” That did not happen. It did not happen.
But what did happen, which was the amazingness of it — which again, calls into the philosophical debate — was, I was recovering. The recovery was amazing. And so I would go out and train. All the same pain was there, all the same dying and all those feelings that cyclists feel when they are pushing themselves to the limit at whatever ability they are. All of that was there.
The only difference is that I could suffer and kill myself and literally go to the place that I feel like I’m going to die, but the next day, I was better able to do that. My body had not torn itself down as radically as it had before. The biggest thing was, which I don’t get into in the film, is at the end of that first Haute Route [in 2014], where I had trained like hell in Boulder…. it’s this seven-day race. The hardest day was 17,000 feet of climbing. The shortest day was 11,000 feet of climbing. It was just brutal. And at the end of that first race, I finished 14th. But the last two, three days of that, I couldn’t even walk.Not only did I not touch my bike for three weeks, I went into rehab. I had Achilles tendonitis. I had hip dysplasia. I was ripped to shreds. I had just destroyed myself.
The second year [2015], I had a technical problem. My Di2 broke and I lost an hour. I had a crash that I don’t show on camera, because we didn’t capture it on camera. I had a flat tire, which I don’t show on camera, because we didn’t capture it, and I lost five minutes because the neutral support van got to me five minutes later. So I’d lost all this time and I probably would have gotten 10th place, but the biggest difference is that I finished day seven of that race with the leaders. There was two guys ahead. And then I came in with the group of 10 right behind. So I was having my very best day in the entire race on the final day of the race. And had that race gone on another week, I would have been fine. I was like, “Bring on day eight. Bring on day nine. Bring on day 10.” I was literally getting better.
I had a physiotherapist. She was working on me every night. About day four, she goes, “You know, this is kind of extraordinary. Your muscles are not deteriorating. You’re not breaking down. You’re recovering.” And that to me, was the most amazing thing — which I attribute to the testosterone and the HGH — that I was able to recover. That recovery, it had nothing to do with how much I would suffer every day. It was just that I was able to recover. That recovery is pretty substantial.
It certainly, again, gets into those questions of, “Well, okay, this is this horrendous three-week bike race,” or what these events are. Philosophically, why can’t you recover? It still doesn’t change how good you are. Philosophically, why shouldn’t you be allowed to recover?"
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