August 26, 2020 by NextTribe Editors · Fitness

80-Year-Old Cyclist Charged with Doping for Using Hormone Replacement Drug

Was super-cyclist Barbara Gicquel unfairly treated because of her age, or did she use her age as an excuse to get out of a doping violation?

On one hand, we want to hold Barbara Gicquel up as an Age Boldly role model. The California woman started cycling at 57, and even after years as a smoker, she has consistently won races in her age group. Last year, she set a world record for her age in a 500-meter time trial, speeding around the steeped curves of a veloway.

But after the world record, the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency gave her a urine test and found that she had an anabolic steroid called methyltestosterone in her system. The steroid has long been on the World Anti-Doping Agency’s list of banned substances.'

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