French Senate report out tomorrow...

[deptfordmarmoset]

David Millar can't remember anyone since...

No, me neither. I just wondered if I'd missed anyone.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Strictly speaking, he didn't actually test positive

Ok, I should have said tested positive or held their hands up.

 

[zizou]

Sciandri wouldnt surprise me, did he not work with Cecchini for years?

Hope not Voigt but i wonder if this is what his last tour decision is about

Hope no. 11 comes through OK!

Dont see how it can damage him - he's already admitted to EPO use

 

[tigger]

found this, Sean Yates In 1989 tested positive in a doping test in the first stage of Torhout-Werchter.....

But his B sample was clear if memory serves.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Using the link IotCB provided in post #21, I found, in answer to my earlier question about the last Brit in a doping case, that it was indeed David Millar in 2004. Before that in the 2000s there were a couple more whose names I do not recall - Neil Campbell, 2000 - and David McCann in 2002.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

is that the Irish cyclist David McCann ......

Yes, Belfast I think.

 

[zizou]

There was an amateur busted for EPO a couple of years ago Dan somebody or other

 

[Flying_Monkey]

if we use this figure as a rule of thumb 73% of the samples contained EPO, 73% of the 189 who started the TDF that could make a possible 138 riders taking EPO....

Not quite - because several riders will have been tested more than once, particularly those who stages, and some not at all. It's still likely to be a larger percentage but probably biased towards the top end.

 

[thom]

Jacky Durand

"The next generation must not pay for our crap from the past," he continued. "Today, I do not think of myself, but of them. My career is behind me. I think of the kid that is a break out during the Tour and to himt we will say 'you, you're drugged, like the others'. I think of a Thibaut Pinot, who finished 10th in the Tour at age 22, or a Romain Bardet. And I do not want it discredited by the pretext that our generation has been bullshit. Our sport is much cleaner now, I want people to understand."

 

[smutchin]

The 186MB pdf is taking a while to download. I suspect I'm not the only one trying...

 

[smutchin]

This is the person to follow on twitter for updates: https://twitter.com/AlexandreMignot

 

[User169]

The 186MB pdf is taking a while to download. I suspect I'm not the only one trying...

Shame in a way that most people only seem to be interested in the annex at the back of the report.

 

[ohnovino]

From l'Equipe:

Jalabert and Ulrich pinned

As announced, the Senate on Wednesday released the full report of the Comission of Inquiry into the fight against doping. Marco Pantani and Jan Ullrich, leading duo of the Tour de France in 1998, are among the riders doped with EPO during the event, according to the information contained therein. The French Laurent Jalabert, Jacky Durand and Laurent Desbiens are pinned. Erik Zabel, Mario Cipollini, Andreas Tafi, Abraham Olano or Manuel Beltran are also mentioned.

Quelle surprise

 

[smutchin]

Shame in a way that most people only seem to be interested in the annex at the back of the report.

Indeed. Here's a good piece from Inner Ring on why the list of cyclists' names isn't the most important (or interesting) aspect of the report, even though it's the bit that will undoubtedly get most coverage:
http://inrng.com/2013/07/the-french-senate-test/#more-16319

 

[Crackle]

No surprises are there, except that a few registered as only suspicious rather than positive. I was just thinking of Olano, touted as big Mig's successor, again no real surprise to see his name there.