Doping git thread

[brommers]

Siutsou? Isn't that a type of yappy little dog?

 

[rich p]

I wonder if Sky had any inkling. They dumped somebody else who later tested +ve. Possoni?

 

[Crackle]

So despite the rumours, it's still good old epo that's the weapon of choice.

 

[mjr]

So despite the rumours, it's still good old epo that's the weapon of choice.

If epo's the weapon of choice, users should be obvious from their behaviour in the hotel:

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wCDIYvFmgW8

 

[cisamcgu]

A general question really, but what is the most "obvious" example of doping ? By this I mean, who has been mediocre (not that any professional cyclist is mediocre, but you know what I mean) for all of their career and then suddenly sprouts wings and flies like a bird, climbs like a goat, rides like the wind ... - it has to be someone subsequently found to be doping, not just a suspect, not matter how suspect they may be

 

[roadrash]

Cough... Chris Horner.... cough

 

[cisamcgu]

Did he get caught doping ?

 

[roadrash]

No but god knows how he didnt

 

[smutchin]

Michael Rasmussen springs to mind - kicked out of the Tour and fired by his team while wearing the yellow jersey, though not for failing a test, rather for lying about his whereabouts, though he did later admit to doping.

I also remember a few years ago Danilo "Killer" Diluca and Mauro Santambrogio tearing up the first week of the Giro while riding for the makeweight Vini Fantini team. It was a great surprise to everyone when they were busted. Not.

Bjarne "Mr 60%" Riis is another classic example of a fairly ordinary rider who miraculously became a Grand Tour champion.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

A general question really, but what is the most "obvious" example of doping ? By this I mean, who has been mediocre (not that any professional cyclist is mediocre, but you know what I mean) for all of their career and then suddenly sprouts wings and flies like a bird, climbs like a goat, rides like the wind ... - it has to be someone subsequently found to be doping, not just a suspect, not matter how suspect they may be

Armstrong

 

[cisamcgu]

But Armstrong was always a good, perhaps always doping, but he didn't leap out of no-where ?

 

[rich p]

But Armstrong was always a good, perhaps always doping, but he didn't leap out of no-where ?

You're never going to win the tdf, if that's what you're asking but a few percentage additions can transform a decent pro rider.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

But Armstrong was always a good, perhaps always doping, but he didn't leap out of no-where ?

No he wasn't; his first 4 Tours de France included 3 x DNF and 36th. And then he got "serious"...

 

[cisamcgu]

No he wasn't; his first 4 Tours de France included 3 x DNF and 36th. And then he got "serious"...

Fair enough

 

[Bollo]

So despite the rumours, it's still good old epo that's the weapon of choice.

It’s like the drugging equivalent of L’Eroica.