Doping git thread

[Adam4868]

That's quite a large percentage of the field.
https://www.bicycling.com/news/a60129331/riders-abandon-spanish-race-anti-doping/

View: https://twitter.com/inrng/status/1766020194403537059?t=x_B5BHGPenyx2G-fzhrHvw&s=19

 

[bobzmyunkle]

Tough race?

 

[Adam4868]

Tough race?

Could be seeing that it's the third year in a row that only 30% of riders finished....but the doping story makes it sound better 😁

 

[matticus]

Tough race?

Hookless rims?

 

[rich p]

Interesting quotes from Wot Poels saying that Cortina and Quintana punched him in the Volta a Catalunya in separat incidents. They were fined a small amount.
Wout had responded to Nairo saying he must be on the Tramadol again. Apparently Geraint Thomas supported Poels on his podcast saying that Quintana was an " Effing little rat"

 

[Dogtrousers]

Now I'm no tough guy, but even I would have very little fear of being punched by Nairo.

 

[Adam4868]

Superman not guilty....Astana have to cough up 😲

View: https://twitter.com/NoticiasRCN/status/1788691417977487604?t=PlyZuzOsj-maMdY2M86ifQ&s=19

 

[matticus]

Lizzy Banks cleared of "intent", but quits the sport anyway:

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/a...er-life-torn-apart-for-nothing-in-doping-case

https://www.lizzybanks.co.uk/

 

[Cathryn]

This is an intriguing story. I admit to being very biased because I like Lizzy Banks very much. She's medically trained (I believe she completed most of a medicine degree before concentrating on cycling).

 

[mjr]

Lizzy Banks cleared of "intent", but quits the sport anyway:

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/a...er-life-torn-apart-for-nothing-in-doping-case

https://www.lizzybanks.co.uk/

It would seem WADA and UKAD are the biggest doping gits of all! Who knew there are no minimums for some substances despite known risks of contamination detection increasing as labs improve and pharma factories get worse? Or that a positive for a tiny amount of a banned substance turns a permitted limited amount of a prescribed med into a second positive? I didn't.

It's totally astonishing.

 

[Cathryn]

It’s made me think the situation of Shari Bossuyt and Toon Aerts. I’d just assumed they were guilty but Lizzy B’s investigations now make me question that!

 

[mjr]

Tues: Cycling Podcast: S12 Ep49: An interview with Lizzy Banks

Episode webpage:
View: https://audioboom.com/posts/8509557


Media file: https://prfx.byspotify.com/e/pscrb....p3?modified=1716384924&sid=1405050&source=rss

 

[matticus]

Tues: Cycling Podcast: S12 Ep49: An interview with Lizzy Banks

Episode webpage:
View: https://audioboom.com/posts/8509557


Media file: https://prfx.byspotify.com/e/pscrb....p3?modified=1716384924&sid=1405050&source=rss

Thanks for that. (It will be an interesting listen, as Lizzie has contributed to that podcast in the past, and I imagine the presenter(s) cannot help being more sympathetic in that situation, than when reporting on a case involving $random_athlete )

 

[Cathryn]

Thanks for that. (It will be an interesting listen, as Lizzie has contributed to that podcast in the past, and I imagine the presenter(s) cannot help being more sympathetic in that situation, than when reporting on a case involving $random_athlete )

They actually got a journalist to interview her although I think he is sympathetic too. Lizzy is remarkably intelligent, I’m halfway through the podcast and I can’t help thinking that anyone less intelligent (such as me) wouldn’t stand a chance of exonerating herself via science! It’s an excellent listen!

 

[matticus]

Listened.
Blimey.

That sounds like hell. The stuff about being too scared to take her own prescription meds (for asthma and other serious shoot) is just ... like a Kafka story. Grim