The Armstrong Lie

Did LA dope in 2009?

  • Yes

    Votes: 76 89.4%
  • No

    Votes: 9 10.6%

  • Total voters
    85
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rich p

ridiculous old lush
Location
Brighton
He's not going to like that. Simpson isn't listed.
^_^
Never failed a test - and post mortem's don't count!
 
^_^
Never failed a test - and post mortem's don't count!

Worrying - you seem unaware that others seem to think they do.

Death of Knud Enemark Jensen

His use of amphetamines in 1960 was proven by autopsy, and the WADA quotes this as being a pivotal point in the introduction of drug testing in the Olympics

The death of Danish cyclist Knud Enemark Jensen during competition at the Olympic Games in Rome 1960 (the autopsy revealed traces of amphetamine) increased the pressure for sports authorities to introduce drug testing.


However if you wish to think post-mortem plays no part in the investigation of the use of drugs and "don't count" - feel free
 

rich p

ridiculous old lush
Location
Brighton
???????

Was posting a list of riders from 1980 onwards and commenting that Simpson wasn't lists some kind of test?


Apparently it is some kind of test..... and according to RichP- you passed
BTW, did you read post #191?
 
there's quite a few on the list that never failed a doping test....

Because there are a multiple number of ways of avoiding a positive result...

Some of the "excuses" are themselves worth a smile..

Tyler Hamilton, cyclist
Drug: Oxygen-rich blood transfusion
Explanation: When The the US Anti-Doping Agency detected someone else's red blood cells in Hamilton's blood, the road racer blood had an imaginative excuse. He claimed that the cells belonged to a "vanishing twin" who died in the womb – an explanation considered theoretically possible but unlikely by medical experts. Sporting authorities were sceptical; the transfusion of blood containing high levels of oxygen-carrying red cells is known to increase athletic performance.

Result: Despite the "blood doping" allegations Hamilton was allowed to keep his 2004 Olympic medal because his second sample was untestable after being damaged in the laboratory. But he was banned for two years in 2005 after a second positive test.
 
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