Doping

Not from me understand, but it will believe me

Fueling further debate about Froome's acceleration on the Mt Ventoux

lol.

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/evans-defends-alessandro-ballans-explanation-for-ban

Cadel banging the omertà drum

Just in the hope it pisses off Hippy

more importantly, what's a private press conference?!

DiLuca interview 21:10 Italia 1
Twittersphere will be busy

The Italian Landis....

Except Landis seems slightly likeable, whereas Di Luca is clearly a preening, objectionable, selfish cunt.

"having a virus" = "not doping anymore"?

Except Landis seems slightly likeable, whereas Di Luca is clearly a preening, objectionable, selfish cunt.

Landis will be forever be tarnished by Geoghegan's attempted blackmail of Lemond. Di Luca hasn't stooped that low yet as far as I'm aware

Germans doping at the cross country Olympic skiing..

http://twitter.com/ZDFsport/status/436789403978313728

Just where would we be without credible witnesses?

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/savoldelli-says-he-never-saw-doping-at-discovery-channel

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/austrian-olympic-committee-duerr-positive-063058696--spt.html

Austrian xc cheat

http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSBREA1M00120140223?irpc=932

Latvian hockey cheat and Italian bobsleigh cheat too. Good to see they are actually testing.

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/sinkewitz-banned-for-eight-years-by-cas

^any idea why he got 8 years for HGH +ve?

^ NADA

Aha, 2nd offence. Thanks.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2014/02/26/russia_xenon_officials_say_nothing_wrong_if_olympic_athletes_used_performanc.html?wpisrc=newsletter_jcr:content&mc_cid=721940524e&mc_eid=c156860288

Woah. I've never heard of xenon use.

Next time I get cut-up by an Audi I'll crack a headlight and suck out all the good stuff.

http://velonews.competitor.com/2014/02/news/venezuelan-pops-for-63-percent-hematocrit-misses-chance-to-join-androni_318119

So Xenon isn't harmful, isn't illegal but does seem to have some performance enhancing properties. Should it be banned? And should we be talking unfavourably about people using it?

I only ask because at the end of the day water is performance enhancing, where is the moral line drawn?

Same as oxygen tents - there was talk of banning their use but it never happened as it's too hard to police. Also, teams or athletes with larger budgets just go training at altitude - should that be stopped? Xenon is a bit different I guess in that it's a foreign body introduced to the athlete that creates a positive adaptation. Tricky, ethically.

So Xenon isn't harmful...

Those olympians are only a step away from lab rats.

it's a foreign body introduced to the athlete that creates a positive adaptation

A bit like training, then :-)

Xenon exists in the air we all breathe, but at a low concentration, so if breathing Xenon at above atmospheric concentration is doping, then maybe consuming any refined/concentrated/extracted food product is also doping. Don't reduce your sauces, just in case WADA is watching.

http://www.boconline.co.uk/en/products-and-supply/speciality-gas/pure-gases/xenon/xenon.html