Jacques Anquetil said that drug testing deprived personal liberty

Intake of anabolic steroids and other drugs that increase performance is widespread among amateur as well as professional sportspeople. It isn’t surprisingly, if athletes test positive for banned medications. But there are some unusual situations, when an individual tests positive for many forbidden drugs. Here is a case.
The teenage amateur French cyclist Alexandre Dougnier tested positive for over 10 forbidden products, including more than 5 steroid metabolites. It was at a race in France in May, 2011. He has been sentenced to 3-year ban from competitions.
It was defined that this person had used such steroids, as Anavar, Dianabol and Winstrol. Other steroid metabolites which were discovered in his urine sample included 3-Hydroxystanozolol, 16b-Hydroxystanozolol, 4b-Hydroxystanozolol, Oxandrolone, epi-Oxandrolone, 6b-Hydroxymethandienone and 17-epi-Methandienone.
This cyclist was a member of the Parisian Athletic Club de Boulogne-Billancourt. Several individuals mention that this amateur cyclist might have been a follower of the club’s doper Jacques Anquetil. This person has been claimed to be a celebrated individual of cycling’s history. He was a member of the club de Boulogne-Billancourt in 1950s and 1960s. Jacques Anquetil was the first cyclist who had won the Tour de France 5 times. This person had got also 2 Olympic medals.
Jacques Anquetil took 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 impossible to endure cold, heat waves and rain in mountains during cycling without doping. Jacques Anquetil claimed that only a fool individual would endure this agony related to the extreme sport of cycling without doping. This well-known cyclist added that drug testing might deprive personal liberty. Jacques Anquetil concluded that everyone doped.
It is important to know steroids were not so widespread among cyclists in 1950s and 1960s. Administration of more dangerous amphetamines was more widespread during those years. As for usage of anabolic steroids, it has become more widespread during past two decades.
Let see which affirmations have been said about steroids, when other cyclists have been caught taking them. When the cyclist Floyd Landis was caught taking testosterone, it was argued by his legal team that neither anabolic steroids, nor other performance-enhancing drugs were capable to increase performance in cyclists. As for the distributor of steroids Joseph Papp, he didn’t agree with this affirmation. He noted that administration of steroids was widespread in elite cycling. According to his words, a person may administrate testosterone gels in a clever way without being detected by anti-doping programs: users of transdermal testosterone must take in consideration detection time.
Alexandre Dougnier wasn’t careful and didn’t put efforts to avoid detection. He probably didn’t suppose that cyclists would be tested for forbidden products at the race in Aubervilliers.