Doping

What’s going on here?
https://x.com/wada_ama/status/1821272533653713164?s=46

There’s an ongoing spat between USADA and WADA.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=psLl_03E9R8&si=2l-soSCGBx_3gedh

I'm sure I read somewhere that psychopathy can also be a useful component for athletic success as well. Then add some steroids what could possibly go wrong?

https://lizzybanks.co.uk/

Golly.

It does paint UKADA in a bad light, doesn't it. Incompetent, myopic, and malicious.

Hang cyclists, but forgive and forget tennis players doping. Classically comical explanation for his two (!) positive tests as well.

tennis players

Most heavily tested athletes in the world according to... them.

"How many tests last year, bro?"
"Oh, one I think"

Get fucked. Gruntnet and soccerball are full of dopers and everyone turns a blind eye to it.

"Oh it's just a recovery injection, no harm in that"

Why would tennisers need drugs, it's not like it's a power and endurance sport

So he's innocent but had to pay £250k fine? Cool.

"he has been docked the 400 ranking points and £250,000 of prize money"

What’s going on with Robert Stannard? I’m no longer on Twitter so missing a lot of discourse.

He was banned for using prohibited methods, but it was back dated, as the offences were from biological passport values in 2018/19. He's now accepted that ban, and has signed for Bahrain-Victorious with immediate effect, and will be riding the Tour of Britain next month.

Edit: I quit Twitter a while back, so have no idea if there is some additional polemica there.

So a 4-year ban... backdated which means he can start racing immediately now he's accepted it.

He's been out for a year, but, yeah.

A year off the bike for a 4-year ban and 70% of a neopro salary.

Also I'd guess he inked this deal with Bahrain either for this season or in anticipation as it looks from his social media that he was riding a blacked out Merida. Although it could also be a generic frameset I guess...

I have not found a good summary covering this: does it really take such a long period to identify abnormalities in the biological passport? Was he just so infrequently tested so it took such a long period to identify the abnormal values or the abnormal values were only divergent by such a small amount between each test? Even if his results are nullfied for the period, I think everyone can agree it is probably not optimal to have a person who is not clean competing for such a long period

The biological passport works by tracking a range of values over time and building up a profile of how those values vary. If, and I don't know if this is the case for Stannard or not, an athlete is doping when they join the biological passport, then the values will show elements of variance should the athlete then modify or even stop their doping regime. It would take a period of a year or more to be able to see that something has changed and the previous baseline values were, in fact, not a true baseline but distorted by doping.

It's a very effective tool, but it doesn't immediately show whether a rider has been taking banned substances or using methods, like blood transfusions, that are prohibited.

So start doping young and never stop. Got it.

You can stop when you retire.

and get spanked on the cafe rides? umadbro

The UCI are not happy with Bahrain-Victorious' statement, which has subsequently been removed, on the signing of Stannard:

https://www.uci.org/pressrelease/uci-statement-following-declaration-from-bahrain-victorious-regarding/6xPCvdwB99AJVlSf4bDmIo

Yikes pretty strong. Doesn't make Bahrain look good. Not that they ever did.

Same drug that Michel Hessmann was positive for. Jumbo possibly not putting as much effort into the defence and science as Lizzy Banks?

Thanks

As mentioned. The lesson for the kids is to start doping early and dont stop

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/aug/25/road-cycling-carbon-monoxide-rebreathing-tour-de-france-vuelta-espana-performance-abuse

Carbon monoxide rebreathing?

In that case my 20 years of cycle-commuting into central london mean that I should be world class.