{"id":3622,"date":"2014-01-23T21:01:12","date_gmt":"2014-01-23T21:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankpunk.com\/?p=3622"},"modified":"2014-01-23T21:01:12","modified_gmt":"2014-01-23T21:01:12","slug":"pro-cycling-depression-indelibly-linked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crankpunk.com\/ja\/2014\/01\/23\/pro-cycling-depression-indelibly-linked\/","title":{"rendered":"pro cycling & depression, indelibly linked"},"content":{"rendered":"

brilliant article here from Suze Clemitson in The Guardian, thoroughly investigating the links between the pressure the sport brings, doping and depression.<\/p>\n

“Perhaps Obree put it best: “It’s not that sport makes people depressed. A lot of people who suffer from depression have a tendency to have obsessive behaviour \u2013 that’s why more of them exist in the top end of sport. The sport is actually a self-medicating process of survival.”<\/p>\n

is it just the pros though? i don’t think so.<\/p>\n

read the whole article here.<\/a><\/p>\n

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brilliant article here from Suze Clemitson in The Guardian, thoroughly investigating the links between the pressure the sport brings, doping and depression. “Perhaps Obree put it best: “It’s not that sport makes people depressed. A lot of people who suffer from depression have a tendency to have obsessive behaviour \u2013 that’s why more of them exist in the top end of sport. The sport is actually a self-medicating process of survival.” is it just the pros though? i don’t think so. read the whole article here.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":40955418,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","wpupg_custom_link":[],"wpupg_custom_link_behaviour":[],"wpupg_custom_link_nofollow":[],"wpupg_custom_image":[],"wpupg_custom_image_id":[],"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"cycling & depression, indelibly linked","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[119818829,194158],"tags":[767233535,5551,77823,6933414,1174022,209713309],"class_list":["post-3622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dopepunk","category-other-publications","tag-cycling","tag-depression","tag-doping","tag-obree","tag-riis","tag-suze-clemitson"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2OfoS-Wq","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3206,"url":"https:\/\/crankpunk.com\/ja\/2013\/12\/04\/kickstarter-campaign-to-help-fund-graeme-obree-film\/","url_meta":{"origin":3622,"position":0},"title":"kickstarter campaign to help fund Graeme Obree film","author":"Lee Rodgers","date":"12\u6708 4, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"as many of you may have noticed, i have always had enormous respect and admiration for Mr. Graeme Obree, for what he represents as a human being as much as what he does on two wheels. he and his mad bike caught my imagination in a way nothing else really\u2026","rel":"","context":"bikes","block_context":{"text":"bikes","link":"https:\/\/crankpunk.com\/ja\/category\/bikes\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/crankpunk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/1175437_320177468118777_545681193_n.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/crankpunk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/1175437_320177468118777_545681193_n.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/crankpunk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/1175437_320177468118777_545681193_n.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/crankpunk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/1175437_320177468118777_545681193_n.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":3761,"url":"https:\/\/crankpunk.com\/ja\/2014\/03\/14\/usa-cycling-steve-johnson-and-the-empty-appeal\/","url_meta":{"origin":3622,"position":1},"title":"USA Cycling, Steve Johnson and the Empty Appeal","author":"Lee Rodgers","date":"3\u6708 14, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"this article originally appeared on The Roar America leads the way in many spheres, from obesity to arms stockpiles, jacked-up baseball players to serial killers, and it has just gone and set another benchmark that the (sporting) world should sit up and take notice of \u2013 or rather, its cycling\u2026","rel":"","context":"dopepunk","block_context":{"text":"dopepunk","link":"https:\/\/crankpunk.com\/ja\/category\/dopepunk\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/crankpunk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/tailwind_and_lance_600.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4201,"url":"https:\/\/crankpunk.com\/ja\/2014\/05\/20\/the-hour-the-uci-and-how-to-up-something-so-beautiful-in-one-easy-step\/","url_meta":{"origin":3622,"position":2},"title":"The Hour, the UCI, and how to **** up something so beautiful in one easy step","author":"Lee Rodgers","date":"5\u6708 20, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"It has just been confirmed that the UCI have imposed a new range of criteria on those who seek to break the hour record. 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