Doping

Aww you guys! I'd bought an outfit for the big day and everything

God damn you're a sexy mother Wayno.

Omerta might be crumbling, albeit not in the highest pro ranks

http://www.velonation.com/News/ID/15795/Video-Ebsen-questions-Taiwan-KOM-Challenge-winner-Emami-after-latters-return-from-two-year-ban.aspx

This is why Pat fought so hard to stay president, why he tried every dirty trick in the book. Now the protection is gone, the secret slowly slip out like thieves in the night

http://m.cyclingnews.com/news/former-riders-speak-of-threats-intimidation-by-verbruggen

Doped

A nice little article about Richard Meeker (who was tested positive at the US National Masters.)

When you see pics or videos of US amateur racing is like a different sport to UK version.

Di Luca banned for life.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2013/cycling/wires/12/05/2080.ap.cyc.doping.di.luca.2nd.ld.writethru.0612/index.html

^Nearly every quote in that is off.

I never won anything I couldn't win
I love the idea that someone might dope but only win races he could have won anyhow?!

You can mistakes in life
Doping is not so much a mistake as a deliberate attempt to cheat. it's not like he got out of bed in the night to get a glass of water then stepped on a syringe full of epo.

It's certainly not very nice
Yes, neither is cheating

doesn't change much for my fans
except they now know you as a cheat

Maybe they're cheating, too, and they're not really fans.

The UCI have just announced the commencement of disciplinary proceedings against Jonathan Tiernan-Locke for biological passport violations.

Expect his suspension by Sky in 3, 2, 1....

As expected.

http://www.teamsky.com/article/0,27290,17546_9077438,00.html

Took their time about that.

Oh dear JTL

Wac

Innocent until proven guilty of course. It'll be interesting to see how quickly BC can resolve the case.

It's worth noting that so far, the UCI have never opened a case using biological passport data as proof and lost.

and still "There are no doubts about his approach or performance in Team Sky. This is a team that trains, races and wins clean."

I wonder when they realised they had signed a dud

and still "There are no doubts about his approach or performance in Team Sky. This is a team that trains, races and wins clean."

It's well documented that the case was brought based on evidence gathered from before he signed for Sky.

Clearly we don't see everything, but it was obvious from very early on this season that his performances at Sky were a long way off what he'd been doing the year before at Endura.

I wonder when they realised they had signed a dud

Quite soon given the role they gave him in races and how much they modified his race program so he only rode races they didn't give a toss about.

^ ah cheers, my bad, I didn't read all info

Mixed feelings on this one, given the impassioned defence given by Tom Southam (http://www.cyclingnews.com/features/opinion-why-i-think-jon-tiernan-locke-is-clean) and Brian Smith.

If he was on the juice, why would he have requested the extra testing while at Endura?

On the other hand, the bio passport doesn't appear to highlight false positives (that I have heard of). I have also ridden with a chap who trained in the group JTL rode with in Bristol, and he was adamant that JTL was charging up even then (pre-Endura days)

Innocent until proven guilty of course.

very much this

It's worth noting that so far, the UCI have never opened a case using biological passport data as proof and lost.

but also this unfortunately..

Mixed feelings on this one, given the impassioned defence given by Tom Southam (http://www.cyclingnews.com/features/opinion-why-i-think-jon-tiernan-locke-is-clean) and Brian Smith.

If he was on the juice, why would he have requested the extra testing while at Endura?

On the other hand, the bio passport doesn't appear to highlight false positives (that I have heard of). I have also ridden with a chap who trained in the group JTL rode with in Bristol, and he was adamant that JTL was charging up even then (pre-Endura days)

Southam and Smith won't be the first to have been caught out by a friend or colleague who doped, yet told them otherwise.

Endura were a Pro Continental team and the UCI can't afford to put in a biological passport program at that level. I imagine Endura's budget was small, and they wouldn't have had the funds to run a fully fledged bio passport for their riders. JTL would have known this so saying he welcomed being tested was easy for him to say, knowing that it wasn't going to happen.

His sudden rise to prominence was as suspicious as hell, and many noted it at the time.

And many defended him.

Sad news.