Doping

Is nothing sacred???

Jalabert. Quelle pauvre type.

He couldn't say for sure if he doped or not. Ha.

Coz no pro who's been riding years would notice the massive advantage from epo or wonder why they were told to wake every 3 hours and ride turbo.

Jean Francois Turbo was a good looking lad though.

He deserves to get caught his pants down.
He was always in denial of any doping commentating the Tour live.
Still in denial.
"Dr"Sainz , Dr Pedro Celaya ( in 99 ex US Postal), Dr Ferrari looked after him.

As for others a few positives were followed by very diplomatics DNS.
Vuelta 95 win for Jaja,
here is what the Doc bedroom's bin looked like:
http://www.alternativeditions.com/2013/06/06/laurent-jalabert-compl%C3%A9ment-d-enqu%C3%AAte/

^lol

Forgot to mention,
in the last picture above,
the empty box bears the commercial name of EPO in Spain.
Local products, ethics!

The French Senate enquiry's final document will be published in full on the 18th of July.
More names will come out.
Jalabert as "decided " to give up his TV consultancy job to "concentrate on his defence".

But does Virenque still have a job on French TV? Admittedly he only doped without his knowledge but of his own free will.

Virenque works for Eurosport, don't know if he does extensive live commentating.
There's an appaling commercial for this.
I'm no expert on this: even when I still watched the Tour I was turning the sound off.
Jalabert has been working on the national French TV for a decade,
coanchoring live , doing interviews pre and post podium, very high profile.
About Virenque "doping unbeknownst of my own free will",
the quote was an instant urban myth,
it was coined by the local spitting image.
Jalabert used roughly the same line of defence when interwied by the senate,
this could explane why these elderly gentlemens leaked his name.
Saves embarassement to the national TV,
to the Tour managing team as well,
who's headed by the former head of sports of the very same national TV.

These team doctors are utter bastards aren't they?

it's like that time I woke up weeping with a broken hand and feeling really angst-ridden and depressed. I couldn't believe that guy at the party handing out little bags for money could do such a thing to people, what's the world coming to if even our professional athletes are being treated so shabbily by their own teams!

Holy crap... those pics of syringes and cotton wads look exponentially worse than anything you would've ever encountered in the smack-ridden Amsterdam of the '80s.

Bassons on Jalabert

"It’s clear, you automatically know what you’re taking when they give you an intravenous or intramuscular injection."

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/bassons-rejects-jalaberts-epo-defence?ns_campaign=news&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=cyclingnews&ns_linkname=0&ns_fee=0

Or you start putting the hurt on when it counts at the end of a ride, instead of slipping back from the group.

Unrelated facts

Mar-13 ITF introducing biopassport

Jun-13 Lots of players underperforming/retiring at Wimbledon

Did you mention the list of today's 'shock exits' include rather alot of Nike sponsored athletes including del Moral client Sarah Errani?

No, but thanks for pointing that out.

^This guy...

Some remarkable current reading about Wayne Odesnik the tennis 'supergrass' and the info he has been giving the ITF's "Tennis Integrity Unit" in return for his cut in supension. Doping, match fixing etc.

http://tennishasasteroidproblem.blogspot.co.uk/

"Secret documents suggest [Wayne] Odesnik has passed to the authorities information about fellow players relating to drugs and corruption.

"On one occasion, Odesnik’s whistleblowing led to a corruption charge against a fellow professional, although that was thrown out after Odesnik was deemed a ‘wholly unreliable witness’.

"It is believed that the ITF and TIU (Tennis Integrity Unit) have made a variety of deals with suspected drug or fixing cheats to allow them to continue playing in exchange for information on fellow players.

"Neither the ITF or TIU would comment on their alleged use of whistleblowers, while Odesnik’s lawyer did not respond to a request for comment."

What's the current story on the 'kimmage' fund?

http://www.bicycling.com/news/featured-stories/missing-kimmage-defense-fund?page=0

In other non-cycling specific doping news, it seems that Jamaican sprinters are currently as worried as the the Wimbledon tennis players seem to be:

Sprinters busted.

Unrelated facts

Mar-13 ITF introducing biopassport

Jun-13 Lots of players underperforming/retiring at Wimbledon

What about the French Open then?

Amuses me how former pros commentating constantly marvel at the conditioning of current players. Heads buried firmly in the sand.

As we're having a little wandering about in other sports.
The AFDL who kept deep freezed samples of Armstrong and Jalabert amongst others,
until new tests were available, has been sidelined from testing on the Tour.
Their highest number of positive this year comes from rugby.

More unconnected facts

check WADA's list of EPO misuse side effects

Luckily Serena recovered well

Mcquiad hints they may strip Pantani

That Pantani doped isn't the elephant in the room, it's the mother-flippin' mammoth or blue whale or something. He got busted for it, he died from it.

So we know, so him being positive in 1998 is a given, lets leave it there with an wink, or an asterisk. Dude is dead, he ain't Jimmy Saville, just a bit of a nutter, and a brave one to boot. Let him rest.

Arguably, if you're going to strip Armstrong of his wins for EPO/doping, you have to strip all winners between 1991 and 2010 of theirs. (Bearing in mind that Ullrich appears to still deny that he used EPO in 1997, which I can't imagine will be believed by too many people.)