Pratique sportive et conduite dopante d'un échantillon représentatif des élèves de Midi-Pyrénées

Objective – Estimate the phenomenon of doping in sport among french adolescents.Method – Our effective population was the students of the Midi-Pyrenees French Region in 1999 exception made of the high-level sport section. The data were gathered by an anonymous questionnaire filled by a representative sample of 1 506 girls and 1 420 boys aged from 13 to 20 randomly selected by a two stage sampling. Regionals estimations are given.Results – A sport-practice out of school concerned 85% of our sample. Nearly 3 000 students of our effective population (2% of this population) would consume a substance classified as a doping-drug for sport (sometimes innocently), and 8.6% of our athletes would consider to know a « friend consumming doping substances for sport-practice». The situation would be more worrying if we consider that more than 12 000 adolescents (8.7%) of the effective population would be tempted to consum suc a substance. The most cited doping substances were caffeine shape of tablet, beta 2 mimetics and cannabis. A total of nine students also declared a creatine consumption.     

Cinétique du cortisol et de l'hormone de croissance plasmatiques lors de deux épreuves sous-maximales avec et sans récupération

Introduction – The purpose of this study is to evaluate cortisol and growth hormone kinetics in plasma during a sub-maximal exercise with and without recovery.Results – There is a significant difference of cortisol and growth hormone kinetics between the two tests. The cortisol concentration increased significantly during exercise without recovery period, the changes of plasmatic cortisol were not significant during exercise with recovery. Plasmatic growth hormone increases after exercise without recovery.Conclusion – The absence of recovery period contributes to increase considerably the level of cortisol and growth hormone in plasma and decreases probably anabolic process in post exercise period.     

Estimation de la dépense énergétique lors d'une régate en dériveur

Introduction. – Assess the energetic cost during small craft competition.Methods. – Height healthy sailors have been tested during three regattas. Heart rate, vertical jump, glycemia, cortisol and testosterone have been recorded.Results and discussion. – Regattas did not show significant difference for hormones. However, a significant 10% decrease of glycemia was presented. Heart rate increased during competition, but it was different according to the wind velocity and wind direction. The oxygen cost of sailing is relatively light. However, this cost could be increase with bad conditions of sailing. It seems that aerobic capacity is important regarding performance.     

Corrélations entre scores au questionnaire de la Société française de médecine du sport et concentrations de cortisol et testostérone salivaires lors du suivi d’une équipe de rugby de haut niveau

Objective. – To carry out the follow-up of 21 high level rugby players by means of the psycho-comportmental questionnaire of the “French Society of Sports Medicine” (SFMS), of the salivary testosterone (T) and cortisol (C) levels and of their ratio T/C during the sporting season.Materials and methods. – The players provided three samples of saliva, at awakening (8 am), just before the lunch (11 am), and at 17 pm in order to assay cortisol and testosterone. The first measurements were done at the beginning of season (T1), 12 weeks (T2) and 24 weeks (T3) after T1. At the same periods, they completed the 54 items of the SFMS questionnaire which allows to give a score (from 1 to 54) proportional to the state of tiredness of the subject. The performance of the team was estimated from the ratio of victories to the number of matches played over the season.Results and discussion. – The increase in the score obtained with the SFMS questionnaire and the variations of the hormonal levels during the season seem to reflect a normal adaptation phenomenon to the training load, a fact which is confirmed by the maintenance of the same level of performance of the team throughout the season. This study permitted to highlight the parallel evolutions between the psycho-comportemental index (score) and the hormonal markers of the state of tiredness. Thus, it appears that the SFMS questionnaire is an interesting and easy to employ tool to evaluate the state of tiredness (or reciprocally of form) of a sportsman during the course of the sporting season.     

Estimation de la contribution énergétique d'origine aérobie et anaérobie et de sa répartition au cours d'un 800 m couru sur le mode compétition

Aim – Determine the part of each energetic system at different times of 800m competition. Oxygen uptake and speed were recorded continuously.Materials and methods – Five athletes performed on an outdoor track a test to determine the maximal oxygen uptake and the maximal aerobic speed and a supramaximal exercise of 800m.Results – The overall energetic expenditure as well as the oxygen deficit assessed at 31.9% were almost identical at those obtained during an 800m race running on a treadmill. Only the repartition of the oxygen deficit notably differed during the race. This suggered that the kinetic of the speed had a determining incidence on the anaerobic contribution as well as aerobic contribution when there were changes in running velocity.