Doping git thread

[Bollo]

Latest update - Ricco intends to make a comeback aged 40 at the end of his lengthy blood doping ban. He thinks 'chemical doping' is much better than 'mechanical doping' ....

I read that article and I think I now know the identity of blazed.

I’d love to see a team sponsored by dog ice cream though. That’s a rep kit I’d wear.

 

[User169]

I read that article and I think I now know the identity of blazed.

I’d love to see a team sponsored by dog ice cream though. That’s a rep kit I’d wear.

Ice cream for Froome Dogs?

 

[smutchin]

LottoNL-Jumbo kicks out three riders caught using sleeping pills on a training camp...

http://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/r...definitely-possessing-sleep-medication-363223

The piece says the product used has not been identified but according to Daniel Friebe on the Cycling Podcast, it's Stilnox, which is the same stuff Cofidis riders were snorting for fun back in the day.

Antwan "I don't do interviews" Tolhoek is clearly a prize dick.

Apparently, Lobato has been sacked from the team. The other two have been 'expelled indefinitely' which suggests they will probably be allowed back in when the team feel they've learned their lesson. Worth noting that Stilnox is not a controlled/banned substance so there is no reason for the UCI to get involved, but it's good to see a team taking action against its own riders for breaking internal team rules - and adopting a very firm (and public) stance on riders taking substances not approved by the team as a general principle.

 

[User169]

Interesting piece on “consumer” attitudes to doping.

Essentially we don’t care (well less than sponsors) and the more interested we are in sport the less we care. We also tend to view it as a rotten furriner thing. (pretty evident from the reaction to Froome on this forum).

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2018/jan/15/maria-sharapova-indifference-doping-sean-ingle

 

[rich p]

Disappointingly, several cyclists passed the clean rider test at the Vuelta a Costa Rica...

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/vue...g-12-riders-to-test-positive-in-2017-edition/

 

[Crackle]

What a family...

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/rumsas-tragedy-continues-as-raimondas-jr-tests-positive/

Not just the family it seems. Real old school doping.

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/six-charged-in-connection-with-linas-rumsas-death-investigation/

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Not just the family it seems. Real old school doping.

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/six-charged-in-connection-with-linas-rumsas-death-investigation/

It's still fecked

 

[mjr]

Lance NOT to fark Flanders http://www.velonews.com/2018/03/news/lance-armstrong-cancels-talk-tour-flanders-function_461275

 

[mjr]

http://www.velonews.com/2018/04/news/bruyneel-doping-didnt-start-us-didnt-end-us_462238 Bruyneel trots out the "everyone did it" justification again.

 

[DRM]

Another one caught out for suspected EPO use

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/di-gregorio-provisionally-suspended-for-epo/

 

[PpPete]

Another one caught out for suspected EPO use
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/di-gregorio-provisionally-suspended-for-epo/

Depressing.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Another one caught out for suspected EPO use

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/di-gregorio-provisionally-suspended-for-epo/

The CC doping git identifiers are well ahead of the UCI, this from March 2011 Paris-Nice Spoilers thread:

Over here we've waited five years for Di Gregorio to do something, he switches to Astana and is taken under Vino's wing and suddenly wins a stage of a prestigious race. Hmmmm.......

My thoughts exactly raindog! Leaves the squeaky clean FdeJ and goes to Team Evil ... he wins. Large Hmmmmm...

 

[smutchin]

Thanks for the reminder @Marmion - I knew there was a reason my spidey-sense started tingling when he cropped up in that stage of Paris-Nice recently. He's been under the radar for a few years.

 

[DRM]

The CC doping git identifiers are well ahead of the UCI, this from March 2011 Paris-Nice Spoilers thread:

Proof a leopard doesn’t change it’s spots, the article doesn’t mention it, only his being caught up in a raid when at Cofidis but the items found were legitimate supplements, I bet he retires again now.

 

[MikeG]

Not sure if this is the right thread, but Armstrong has settled his law suit with the US government, for $5 million (instead of the $100 million it might have been. I reckon he might be seeing that as something of a result.

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