Doping

Relationship Doping. Not worth the risk :-/

Does Sky have any stated reason apart from 'we're happy doing things our way', as to why they aren't in the MPCC?

What other reason would they give? "We're all on the sauce so can't sign that shit!"

"it is understood that Team Sky feel the MPCC does not go far enough in some areas, for instance in its attitude towards recruitment. Team Sky operate a zero-tolerance policy with regard to riders and staff who have ever had any involvement in doping."

Which is laughable given some of the people they've hired.

Being in MPCC wouldn't exclude them from having more strict employment practices, and it would also let them push for other MPCC teams to do the same. There are disadvantages to Sky not hiring the best (clinically) Doctors, but if everyone had to steer clear of medics with a dodgy past, then the playing field would be levelled in Sky's favour, surely a good marginal gain?

MPCC is used as PR as much as anything by cycling teams. Vino runs a MPCC team FFS, and several riders that have been pinged recently ride for them too.

That Frenchie who won on d'Huez... Rollande.. cortisol levels.. MPCC something something kindnap the terrorists blah blah

Stat of the day - in the past year, 55% of athletes sanctioned by UK anti-doping came from the sport of rugby.

http://m.bbc.co.uk/sport/28194582

"chess recorded three adverse findings, while bridge returned one. "

Made me laugh anyway.

Ukraine's and Jamaica's testing look strong...

With such a low level.of out of competition testing, you would expect there to be a preponderance of statistically abnormal performances to come from at least one of those countries.

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http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/menchov-stripped-of-tour-de-france-results

One of Leinders' creation

Dodgy Denis a doper - surely not?

Strange way for it to come out though, and why hasn't he been stripped of his 2009 Giro win?

why hasn't he been stripped of his 2009 Giro win?

Presumably they could only show evidence of manipulation dating back to a point in time somewhere between the end of the 2009 Giro and the end of the 2009 TdF

Other provisional suspensions turned into bans in that document too

Yep, Santambrogio, Barredo (finally) and Mustafa Sayer all banned too.

What a mess. Cookson's first chance to show he can handle this shit better than his predecessor.

http://inrng.com/2014/07/denis-menchovs-silent-prosecution/

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/menchov-case-an-example-of-the-ucis-new-way-of-communicating-on-doping-violations

I can't see anything amiss, just some hacks whingeing about not being spoon-fed.

I agree. Not having a press conference to announce another (and every) person who was/is doping is perhaps the goal of the "new way of communicating." I'm not particularly bothered one way or the other, but I don't think it necessarily "contrasts with the approach promised by UCI president Brian Cookson in his election manifesto" as CN claims (at least, yet).

I suppose the reasoning goes something like this:

'doping damages the sport. If the press want to play on doping while only briefly covering the actual cycling, the UCI arent gonna stop them but why should the UCI feed the trolls and participate in attacks on the sport'

dunno if i totally agree with it but it should be punishment enough for a bike rider to be banned and be stripped of results.

Its funny how this shit always comes out during the tour though...

Its funny how this shit always comes out during the tour though...

This. It should get dealt with at the very beginning and very end of the season, and any suspensions/suspect cases can sit out the rest of the season if there's a question mark-at least that way it won't overshadow the actual racing and there won't be a constant drip drip of negative publicity.

Should that have been Jurgen Van Den Broeck's first GT podium then?

http://m.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/28319312

Doping life bans not legal.