Doping

the Italian Marco Pantani and dolphins

I remember that stage

Jalabert never took EPO on porpoise.

Bullshit, he took it of his Free Willy

Armstrong clutching at straws: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cycling/23430061

Why do some riders who doped to win, like Stuart O'Grady, get a free pass?

Because he's a ginger Australian. Hardly fair to kick a man when he's down, is it?

Repped.

My radical idea is to simply ban everyone over the age of thirty.

LOL, at ^ and ^^

Ban anyone who is either fast on a bike or looks funny.

French Senat report is a fucking massive 186 MB .pdf file here on the slowest server in the world.

I'd give a few hours before trying to D/L when the load eases up.

wonder why O'Grady retired?

He wasn't positive, just suspicious.

Full list of both positive and suspicious results are here;

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/french-senate-releases-positive-epo-cases-from-1998-tour-de-france

unfair to list "suspicious" riders I think....either you have conclusive proof or you don't, unless there is further clarification on what "suspicious" means in this case....There may well be many dopers of that era collectively sighing in relief today as they slipped through this particular net.

What are the odds on Boardman?

No trace of EPO in any of Boardman's samples. The same applies to Jab Svorada and Maarten den Bakker.

Makes you wonder what Boardman could have achieved racing against clean contemporaries.

That sort of question is precisely why drugs need to be got out of our sport.

/cliche

Yeah. Should have doped. Now we'll never know how great he could have been.

He would certainly have won some stage races.

No trace of EPO in any of Boardman's samples. The same applies to Jab Svorada and Maarten den Bakker.

Makes you wonder what Boardman could have achieved racing against clean contemporaries.

To the first phew

To the second this +10000000000000000000

In a clean sport he may have beaten Wiggo to it

As I understand it all of Boardman's samples are listed in the report as too degraded to be retested.

He would certainly have won some stage races.

He won a stage race in 2006 (a two day stage race!) but I doubt he'd've won a Grand Tour as he's not the best climber in the world, doped peloton or not.

Very probably. But you could say the same about other riders at the time... Fact remains that we'll never know for sure.

I'd much rather his wins were honest and small. Than fraudulent and grand.

I've no wonder what he 'could' have been. He is the world hour holder. And that's more than all can lay claim too.

True!

I think second in the Dauphine in 1996 demonstrates how good he was.