Australian cyclist Jobie Dajka found dead

An Australian cyclist Jobie Dajka -- 27 -- was discovered dead today.  Young cyclists appear to die more frequently than one would expect.  Not saying this was involved here, but one thinks of the morbid effects of EPO, either alone or added to all the other drugs these guys ingest.  (The Age)

Australian cyclist Jobie Dajka has been found dead at his Adelaide home, it has been reported.

The body of Dajka, a world and Commonwealth Games champion, was discovered late Tuesday, the Nine Network reported.

A cause of death has not been released, Nine said.

Dajka, 27, was dumped from Australia's team for the 2004 Athens Olympics just weeks before the Games for lying to a doping inquiry.

In 2005, he was given a three-month suspended jail term for assaulting Australia's head track coach, Martin Barras - an offence that also led to a three-year ban from professional cycling.

Following the suspension, which was lifted in late 2006, Dajka admitted having alcohol related problems and to have suffered depression.

Dajka won a Commonwealth Games gold medal at the Manchester Games in 2002 in the teams sprint, and was the 2003 world championships kierin winner.

The ink between doping and depression, doping and alcohol and other street drugs has yet to be explored.

More here on the cylist.  Obviously depression was a problem.  Don't underestimate the effects of doping on mood.

Comments

[tennis roids]

It's suspicious that he cut his hair shorter right after getting a hair sample taken. As if he wanted to cut away any further evidence.

[Steve W]

You guys are complete idiots. Dajka hasn't competed on a serious level in many years. To suggest his death is related to EPO, which sprinters like him don't even use, is just shoddy journalism.

I'll bet my car keys it's related to his depression, not PEDs. Shame on you.

[Steroid Nation]

You missed the point.

First we did not link his death directly to PEDs.

More importantly are the long lasting effects of these drugs. That is the point. The short acting effects may be the increase of muscle or blood cells. However long term, there could be brain changes that may complicate depression. There could be more vulnerability to depression and alcoholism.

Furthermore, there can be chronic effect on the heart. You can't easily change damage to heart muscle or blood vessels.

Again, you missed the point completely. You can't think short term. We know it isn't popular these days, but think long term health effects.

[tennis roids]

Oops, my above comment was meant for the Lance Armstrong story above it. I'll add it to that story.

[Jenky]

Actually, Steve W. does say something of value though I've read this blog for too long to be readily judgemental, I know there are lines I myself would not cross.

Take for example, the case of Frederick Nolf, Belgian who passed away during the Tour of Qatar in which he was riding and a handsome strapping looking lad of 21 years old. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/other_sports/cycling/7871736.stm

You certainly wonder about the fellow and if one follows the story, once his body was back in Belgium the family did not allow an autopsy.

For the record, as I mentioned here about 8 weeks ago, Marion Jones, The Sprinter did fess up to using epo. Now see, she is a sprinter but confessed to using epo so it would not seem to be unheard of.

But when someone dies, I'm wary to speculate, however, when one sees this happen to a young European cyclist, dying in bed of a heart attack, there seem to have been other cases of especially Dutch (Holland, the neighboring country) and perhaps a few Belgian young men. There are a lot of details to the death and it was diagnosed as a "natural death" in Qatar.

It's a close call and I'm not sure I am clearly putting my facts together.

The famed cyclist Marco Pantani interestingly enough suffered from depression and the like. His death I believe has always been called death through cocaine or a suicide.

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