Doping

Huh?

Doping is shit, but "Doping is the cycling story. Sexual abuse of athletes by coaches etc. is for another day, when all sports can be included" is a moronic thing to write. If cyclists are being abused than it's a cycling story, and one for today (and tomorrow, and the day after, and every other day).

Depends how you read it.

If its half as widespread as it appears. Including it as a sidenote in a cycling doping piece would be a disgrace. Deserves its own proper Reporting. With all the relavent sports investigated and reported.

At least thats how I read it.

I probably misread it, because as I read it, it was a pretty dumb thing to say.

It was a comment on the way mainstream media works, not my personal view of the issue. Clearly one instance of a coach/DS exploited his power over an athlete to obtain sexual favours is a worse crime than 200 professional athletes volunteering to put their health at risk by taking drugs.

Which is why it would make such a ridiculus, and insulting, side note.

What timing, AG2R's Lloyd Mondory has tested positive for EPO in an out of competition test.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY0WxgSXdEE

Do you have a link for that please?

Lloyd Mondory

http://www.ruedalenticular.com/2015/03/el-ciclista-frances-lloyd-mondory.html

http://www.uci.ch/pressreleases/uci-statement-lloyd-mondory/

Thank you!

Apologies for insinuating you thought otherwise.

another fucking dopeur ruining the chance of ever having a normal conversation about competitive cycling with outsiders

You talk to 'outsiders'?

Burn him!

GO! Competers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgzGwKwLmgM

people who are into sports but not cycling per se, non enthusiasts 'swhatimeant

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/mar/11/circ-report-anti-doping-cycling-nicole-cooke

Nicole Cooke is an absolute legend. It may make Brailsford choke on his cornflakes but so well said, every bit of it.

insightful, thanks for sharing

I think Brailsford would largely agree with Cooke, as he says much the same as her in the Cycling Podcast this week.

Abuse of the TUE system should stop but, as yet, no-one has proven that it is being abused. Froome has had 2 TUEs in his career so far so I don't think he's abusing it.

One thing British Cycling and Sky have been completely open about is that they will push to the absolute legal limit of everything to get an advantage whether it's kit or TUEs.

Zorzoli's TUE approval and UCI's process that allowed him to give it might have been dodgy as fuck but it's still an approval and Sky are blameless.

Don't hate the player etc.

Anything that looks 'dodgy as fuck' can be an issue if the sponsor decides it's damaging.

Sponsors already know cycling is 'dodgy as fuck'. It's clearly overruled by having a Sky logo on every paper in the world when their Belgian and African riders win the Tour.

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Yeah but her criticism of Froome riding with that TUE is unequivocal. No-one is saying he or Sky cheated, but what is being said is that the rules are wrong, and that morally Sky made the wrong call.

It is right now. James Murdoch would surely walk if Sky found themselves in an Astana-like situation?

If it's truly possible to compete even in GTs clean (as we're told by the riders over and over) then it makes pretty good business sense to avoid controversy.

#trolled