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What's he meant to do? The World Tour licensing commission is independent of the UCI, to avoid any conflict of interest. The onus is on them to do something.
I'm not sure what though, the Astana management will point out that only 2 of the positives are against the World Tour team, and likely escape sanction.
From a PR perspective, the Astana management need to get on top of this now, it's already escalating out of control.
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From the cycling tips coverage of the Astana cheating:
“[The Astana rider] made the rest of the field his bitch,” he [the canadian competitor] said, pointing out that he [the Astana rider] took the yellow jersey plus the best young rider award, was second in the green jersey classification, dropped climbers on climbs and won a bunch sprint.
“There were other questionable riders at this race, but Davidenok took the level of questionability to entirely new level. Sure enough, a few weeks ago he tested positive.”
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If anyone cares, here's the Czech anti-doping body's reasoned decision on Kreuziger;
http://www.scribd.com/doc/248625048/Kreuzinger-reasoned-decision
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Para. 4.11 is the fun part
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If you're sitting in judgement in Prague, it probably goes without saying that you will be familiar with The Trial :-)
I'm not sure that they did deviate from the UCI process, we're reading a translation and even in translation it's ambiguous whether they adopted different procedures or just struggled to reconcile 'fair trial' with the process which they were forced to adopt, and that such struggles caused them to give more than usual benefit to the defendant in order to level the playing field.
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Bloody hell. just watched the docu on German ARD on large scale doping operations in Russian athletics for the past couple of years. Trainers, athletes, national federation and RUSADA proved to be involved in doping strategies, product trade and manipulation of test results. Even at least one board member of IAAF insured protection and cover-up. The whistleblowers have fled the country by now. Sitting here pretty much blown away.
German language only so far, the link will appear here shortly I think, 18:50 broadcast. It's geoblocked so use a VPN:
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English subtitles! awesome!
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Athletes were instructed: "after the test, you will get a pink sheet of paper. Just text me the number on it and you won't have to worry".
check this twitter timeline, it covers the main findings of Hajo Seppelt, the journalist that made the documentary
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Ross Tucker (Scienceofsport):
Russian distance runner Shobukhova admits to doping in 2012 & positive tests were covered up with 450,000 euros http://pic.twitter.com/QZ1apG4ddDhttp://twitter.com/Scienceofsport/status/540279685822033921
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