Doping

http://www.theouterline.com/perspectives-on-doping-in-pro-cycling-3-will-frischkorn/ nice little article regarding riding clean and how the clean riders were introduced to EPO in the Pro Tours

The lesson being test everyone, and if a rider looks too good to be true he probably is. I am surprised an old stager like Vaughters didn't immediately clue into the fact he was doping, given his evasiveness when they invited him to do some testing, and then his poor power test when he finally did. However Sky just look like morons really. JTL is the new Ricco

Vaughters asked for more tests. What more should he have done? It sounds like he took exactly the course of action he should've.

All I'm saying is I thought he might have smelled a rat sooner

Can't actually believe his defence. Wish I could get absolutely plastered on Friday, not eat anything on Saturday, be still suffering on Sunday and then nearly win the World Championship Road Race on Monday.

Frischkorn tells of one older rider – still active in the professional peloton – who essentially explained to him the ropes of EPO usage; where to buy it, how to store it, and how to use it.

tusk tusk tusk

^ An allusion to a sharp appendage of a pachyderm?

Chris HORNer?

I absorbed the drugs from my dead twin
The prescription for saddle sores had the wrong date on it
The drugs were for my ill mother in law
The pharmacist gave me the wrong capsules [NEW]
I must have borrowed that book with a cavity containing 2 epo syringes
I have natural high testosterone and a hypocrite level of 57.8
It was someone else's urine sample

You forgot: "the HGH was for my dog" - Frank VDB

You probably can, just so long as you're prepared to take more drugs than the others.

Why let hangovers and hunger be a barrier to winning world champs?

Roman going for broke.

I've not read the reasoned decision from the Czech ADA yet, but the summary on cyclingnews.com suggests he was acquitted by them because the UCI experts contradicted what the experts selected by his defence team said.

Lord alone knows how anyone ever gets convicted of any crime in the Czech republic.

This is not the first time a passport case has been rejected at a national level though, as this happened with Tadej Valjavec. The Slovenian ADA cleared him, the UCI and WADA appealed to CAS and their case was upheld. I'd expect the UCI to appeal Kreuziger's case to CAS too.

Just published a comment on athlete biological passports, written by Yorck Olaf Schumacher.

It's free to download and read if you register on the website.

http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanhae/article/PIIS2352-3026%2814%2970009-2/fulltext

If that were the case, Wiggins would have been royally fucked.

fucking Belgians, or rather their pro cycling governing body, after Michael Boogerd to possibly suspend him for doping vioolations during his career (to which he admitted, like many Dutch former pros in the aftermath of the LA thing). He's 7 years after retirement and just now starting a new pro cycling team.

Yet more reason why there should be some kind of fit and proper person type test about who can run teams.

Talking of which, remember back in August Astana's Valentin Iglinsky got popped for EPO? Seems it runs in the family as now his brother, who famously caught Nibali to win Liege back in 2012, has been popped for it too.

Interesting analysis on this here:

http://velonews.competitor.com/2014/10/news/road/commentary-iglinskiy-epo-positive-will-astana-honor-mpcc-commitment_348155

The London Sports writing Festival Sunday events will be worth going to for those interested in doping. Emma O'Reilly ftw
http://www.lfgss.com/events/396/
http://www.londonsportswritingfestival.com/?page_id=66

I think this fit and proper person type test would render 90% of current team DS's and their assistants jobless.

I wonder how much cash Vinokourov offered Iglinsky to get him to request a B test so the team doesn't have to suspend itself for eight days?

His final pay cheque?

Astana and Iglinskiy reverse decision to have rider’s B sample tested.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/athletics/29510575

No-one saw that one coming, did they?

So have Astana sacked the brothers?

Will Cookson find an alternative to the passport?