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Disgraced British Masters champion to take part in punishing SAS survival TV series

Andrew Hastings was banned for use of anabolic steroids last year

The disgraced British Masters 35-39 champion Andrew Hastings has announced that he is to take part in a Channel 4 series recreating the SAS's secret selection process.

Hastings has been banned from all sport for four years after testing positive for two different types of anabolic steroids, UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) confirmed last year.

In the documentary series, five ex-Special Forces soldiers recreate the SAS's secret selection process and put 30 men through it, in the ultimate test of their physical and psychological resilience.

Hastings announced the news on his Facebook page, linking to the trailer for the upcoming series.

UKAD said the Richardsons-Trek RT rider had tested positive at the 2015 Team Time Trial National Championship in Newark, Nottinghamshire on 30 May 2015, organised by Cycling Time Trials (CTT).

His team finished second, but was been disqualified.

Hastings claimed he was a victim of contamination, saying that he had borrowed a syringe from someone at a gym so he could inject himself with vitamin B12 following a workout in February.

One of the ex-SAS men feaured on the series,  Jason 'Foxy' Fox, said of the punishing trials set for the participants: “I didn't have any misgivings about subjecting them to such agonies and it had nothing to do with perverse enjoyment but all to do with trying to prove, on this scale, that what I and few others have achieved does not come easy.

“Let’s not forget the pressures they felt over 8 days are normally endured for over six months on the real thing. In addition they were there to impress us and themselves and to do that they had to overcome what we put in front of them.”

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fenix | 8 years ago
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Who believes that he'd "borrow" a needle for a vitamin injection ? 

 

Who shares needles apart from Junkies ?  And why not take some B12 pills (Holland and Barrett have them in for a few quid)

 

Cheaty mc cheat face.

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Simmo72 | 8 years ago
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If you are going to go as far as injecting yourself with b12 then you would have your own needle. Its not exactly an impulse decision is it.  Workout, shower, change, stick needle in arm, oh go on then. Tool. 

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BikeBud | 8 years ago
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Why is this news?  

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leqin | 8 years ago
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so do the SAS allow ass-matics now, only if they do then shouldn't there be a higher number of cheaters... sorry... former professional cyclists who once or twice or a few times got a doctor to make them out a sick note... sorry... TUE, serving in the SAS - you would have thought so, only there seems to be a incredible number of cheaters... dammit dammit... professional cyclists who need asthma medication in order to just spin cranks.

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Beatnik69 | 8 years ago
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I don't know much about these things but would many people inject vitamin B12 (or other vitamins) like this? Why can't he just eat a bowl of Frosties like the rest of us?

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Jackson replied to Beatnik69 | 8 years ago
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Beatnik69 wrote:

I don't know much about these things but would many people inject vitamin B12 (or other vitamins) like this? Why can't he just eat a bowl of Frosties like the rest of us?

 

Because of allergies/asthma

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kil0ran replied to Beatnik69 | 8 years ago
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Beatnik69 wrote:

I don't know much about these things but would many people inject vitamin B12 (or other vitamins) like this? Why can't he just eat a bowl of Frosties like the rest of us?

Because B12 is legal for mere mortals (not sportsmen) and easily accessible. You'll get all the benefits without the calories. Plenty of tutorials online as to how to self-inject as well (intra-muscular, not quite as painful as magnesium but still smarts a bit).

If you have a B12 deficiency you go from being generally knackered all the time with poor reflexes and peripheral neuropathy to being nicely perky. Fast acting stuff too. No idea what it would do to someone without B12 deficiency but providing your metabolism is working OK you can't overdose on it per se - excess get stored in your liver or eventually excreted.

 

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cyclecraig | 8 years ago
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"borrowed a syringe from someone at a gym" sounds like a bigger risk than being caught cheating! Surely he could think of a better excuse!!

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notfastenough replied to cyclecraig | 8 years ago
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cyclecraig wrote:

"borrowed a syringe from someone at a gym" sounds like a bigger risk than being caught cheating! Surely he could think of a better excuse!!

now THATs a crazy excuse 

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sizbut | 8 years ago
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... and we're following the non-cycling activities if a disgraced drug cheat because?

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