Doping

Maybe it was all for Sir Dave in his quest to be hirsute.

FTFY

UKAD let BC do its own testing and investigations at the time when BC and Sky were largely intertwined.

https://twitter.com/sportingintel/status/1375870996079607808?s=20

Yet Garmin were praised for doing the same thing at the time...

Yawn, more procedural minutiae from a decade ago...

Yawn, more procedural minutae from a decade ago

It was decade-old procedural minutiae which did for Lance

Imagine if you aggregate all the minutiae

It was decade-old procedural minutiae which did for Lance

More like the many many witnesses testifying about his transgressions.

Imagine if you aggregate all the minutiae

There must be some sort of management buzz phrase for that kind of large progress by the accumulation of small improvements 🙂

A lot of insinuation and not much evidence in this article, but titillating nonetheless:
http://backpagefootball.com/hear-see-but-speak-no-evil-richard-freeman-and-the-ongoing-scandal-of-doping-in-english-football/127605/

marginal veins

:)

I have margarine veins. It's no laughing matter! (it is)

you'd butter get that looked at, it might spread

If I don't control it I could be toast!

I think Dr Fuentes is doing a big TV interview in Spain tonight

I hope he names names (he won’t).

Drugs & the Dutch eh? (saw this @hippy retweet this morning)

In this study, 38% of 66 high-risk sports supplements tested (which claimed to intensify workouts, promote muscle growth and fat loss) were found to contain doping agents.
4.5% of the products tested were found to contain doping agents in concentrations which can have acute negative health effects, and may result in a positive doping test.

https://www.jssm.org/mobile/abstmobile.php?id=jssm-20-328.xml

This is why I hate the excuse about contaminated supplements. It's fucking clear that supplements are a high risk vector for "accidental" doping products. So using supps and then being busted for doping should not be penalised in a lesser way because of some claim about 'contamination'. If I know that supps are dodgy then so should pro athletes and their caretakers.

I understand, although one might argue that it should say so on the tin.

This case springs to mind

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/wales/30415160

as does this one

https://cyclingtips.com/2020/01/betsema-contaminated-supplement-led-to-six-month-suspension/

I think the entire supplements market should be regulated the same way food, drink and drugs are. It's a fucking joke the claims they can make with no one policing what's actually in the product. This isn't the first study to show that supps contain either nothing of what they claim, less than what they claim, more of what they claim or something completely different to what they claim is in them. The whole industry is a fucking joke.

What happened to https://www.mountainfuel.co.uk/ after this contamination?

Imagine the uproar if poison was found in baby food or something? But steroids in energy drink? Oh that's fine.

Fuck all, I can see:
https://twitter.com/search?q=%40MountainFuel_UK%20steroids&src=typed_query

"a Belgian pharmacist was responsible"

Which one? Were they disciplined? Have they harmed others?

If a nurse jabs the wrong stuff into someone's arm in hospital, what happens?

Yeah, you’d think they’d be sued or take further action