Welcome back to the spin cycle podcast, everybody.

I'm Kaylee Fritz.

Hello, I'm Tony Long.

I'm Ronan.

Today on the show, carbon monoxide is back in the news.

Jai Hindley consumed a lot of carbs, a lot of carbs.

And Stephen Cummings got Steve Cummings contract. Let's get into it.

All right, all right. Let's get into today's show. So we're going to kick off the show with something I guess it's pretty serious. So those who have been listening for a long time, following us for a long time will remember the story that we broke in the middle of the Tortofrance this summer about carbon monoxide and its use within the pro peloton.

As a very brief reminder of that, one legitimate use of carbon monoxide in the the pro peloton which is you could use it to

test blood volume this is a test that's been around for a very long time uh it's been used in

medical settings and physiology and all the rest for for a while it is not in and of itself dangerous

but essentially a higher dosage of the same,

and higher frequency of the same, basically inhalation of carbon monoxide, which I'll remind

you is a gas that will kill you, can create an effect not dissimilar to going to altitude.

Is that a decent enough summation, Ronan?

I think we need to be a little bit clearer because some of this seems to have got lost in the

weeds. Not on the explanation you've just given, but just quite often when people ask me about

carbon monoxide or when carbon monoxide comes up in conversation, the thing that I hear back is,

but it's fine, it's used as a measurement. It's a perfectly valid medical test that anybody could have done when they go to hospital.

And that is true.

That is accurate and went on correctly and used specifically for measurement purposes.

It is fine.

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