Doping

He passed on his guy's number to Cookson. All is good now.

Froome starting his testing that he mentioned during the Tour

https://twitter.com/chrisfroome/status/633278404738031616

Bless him for doing it, but it's probably not going to achieve much. The tinfoil hat brigade in the clinic are already lining up their responses - 1. Tests show he doped ! 2. Tests don't show he doped, Sky fiddled with the data !

I hope Froome double trolls the clinic - win stage 16 of the Vuelta and then release his data on the rest day the day after.

Christ, he looks like he has never ridden a bike before

I imagine that was shot right before exhaustion, which is why he looks like a bag of spanners. Well, even more than he usually does.

He is not riding a bike

#haspaulatweetedyet

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/prudhomme-chris-froome-is-like-paula-radcliffe-on-a-bike/

Grauniad playing trolly clickbaity:

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/18/athletics-drugs-doping-iaaf-legalise

CiF isn't Graun editorial.

No, but they choose what to publish on CiF based on what's going to cause a barney.

You can tell it's not editorial because there's not even the slightest swipe at Jeremy Corbyn.

not even the slightest swipe at Jeremy Corbyn

Indeed, I don't understand Graun's current position.

Very good news - the number of failed tests is expected to drop by at least 66% at the World Championships.

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/aug/18/iaaf-drug-testing-world-athletics-championships-beijing-doping

#nottheonion

Katusha rider Giampaolo Caruso positive for EPO from a re-test of a sample from 2012. Rumours of undetectable Chinese EPO has long been around, I wonder if there is now a reliable test.

That's Katusha's second positive of the season (Paolini the other) which likely means they'll be suspended from racing for a month.

There will be complaints (duh) - a retroactive test which could make a team suffer for the actions of a rider who could have been riding for another team when the infraction occurred seems a bit problematic.

You have to dope to finish 80-something place in Pais Vasco

https://twitter.com/paulajradcliffe/status/633814451670618112

Quote for those of us at work?

Huge day for our sport today, backing @sebcoe who has the passion, courage, and strength to change our future and restore it's integrity

Does anyone else view Seb Coe as being slipperier than a bucket of lube at the Playboy Mansion?

#ovettforpresident

He got shirty when questioned about his Nike links.

Paula's other tweet.

"Thank the Lord!"

Seb Coe's name always makes me chuckle because of the obvious pun. Well, it is for me. :)

Go on, put us out of our misery...

Race radio said "@TheRaceRadio: The passion, courage to fight to keep facts out of the public domain and attack anyone who tries to expose the truth https://t.co/PadIbAcyBr"

That was first thing now the trolls have had their say and now they are quoting him as being the last bastion in getting the Iaf im order.

Fat pat and verbruggen all over again . Time will tell if any uk athletes are busted from the past,current, or future .

Part of the fully paid up nike say nothing club.

She speaks!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/athletics/33990503