Rafael Nadal and Zlatan Ibrahimovic took the injections to play.
It’s now stirring up cycling reactions.
They’re seen as heroes because they put up with the pain, but they actually use drugs to do it, and it’s really on the border, says Guillaume Martin according to Dagens Nyheter.
It took a few days after Milan won their first league title in eleven years. then gone Zlatan Ibrahimovic He revealed the severity of his knee injury.
For the past six months, I’ve played without a cruciate ligament in my left knee. Inflated for six months. I only managed to train with the team ten times in the past six months. He took more than 20 injections in six months. Empty your knee once a week for six months. Pain relievers every day for six months. He barely slept six months because of the pain. I didn’t suffer much on and off the field. You made the impossible possible.”wrote on Instagram.
Honorable to some.
A problem, say many top cyclists.
“on the border”
The vote now raises against Ibrahimovic and tennis star Rafael Nadal, who this week won his 14th title at the French Open after taking injections to relieve pain in one foot.
– People are praising Nadal for his ability to withstand the pain so far. I think Zlatan Ibrahimovic also talked about his knee injections. They’re seen as heroes because they put up with the pain, but they actually use drugs to do it, and it’s really on the border. According to Dagens Nyheter, cycling winners, especially in the Tour de France, are systematically accused of doping even without any substance behind it.
“We rest”
In cycling – which has a dark history of doping – there has been a rule for over ten years that you can only take injections for medical reasons.
– If you get injured and can’t do our sport, you can rest a bit and go back to the next competition. Our generation of cyclists has learned the profession this way, Kenny Elesundi tells RMC.