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As much as its fun to demonise the Russians, and obviously the doping goes very deep there, you can be sure they're not the only ones at it.
Else surely they'd be winning everything
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That story has gone mainstream.
“All athletes who make such claims have infringed with doping regulations in the past. Such people then contact journalists and tell stories. For professionals, such stories are only laughable.”
Hardly reassuring words from RUSADA
They sound more interested in saving face than finding corruption.
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Sports on snow don't count
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So was doped to the gills and still 3 mins slower than "clean cos she's British" Paula Radcliffe.
Google the fellow patients of her homeopathic doctor Dr. Muller-Wohlfahrt and the treatments he prescribes for lolz.
Maurice Green, Tyson Gay, Usain Bolt, Bayern Munich team doc and Actovegin injections.
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"As an "Outside the Lines" reporter watched, the doctor spent an hour listening patiently while tending to Radcliffe. As she lay on a treatment table, the sinewy, muscled distance runner gradually morphed into a human voodoo doll. The doctor went about sticking her with a bevy of needles, injecting a numbing agent and then leaving the needles in place. Into the needles' plastic base or hub that remained above the skin, he followed with injections of natural lubricants and hyaluronic acid."
LOL
"The celebrity doctor swears by the straw-colored liquid drawn into his needles and injected freely as his healing agent of choice. Asked how many of his rounds of injections include Actovegin, Muller-Wohlfahrt answers matter-of-factly, "Nearly every one."
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There's an English translation and link to the documentary about systematic doping in Russian track and field here :
http://www.allthingsgym.com/german-documentary-systematic-russian-doping/
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Astana and Vino may well be done.
the Inner Ring @inrng · 11m11 minutes ago
Gazzetta dello Sport says investigators have photos of Dr Ferrari's visit to Astana's Montecatini pre-season camp last year, h/t @cyclingpro -
Race Radio (TheRaceRadio):
La Gazetta reports that CONI have pictures of Ferrari attending a Astana training camp last year https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gazzetta.it%2FCiclismo%2F08-12-2014%2Fastana-ritiro-ferrari-montecatini-doping-vinokourov-dottor-mito-100169700649.shtml&edit-text= -
Jersey Pocket Howard (TheJerseyPocket):
"FERRARI DENIES LINKS TO ASTANA, FEARS REPUTATION DAMAGE"- You couldn't make this shit up! http://www.thecyclingtimes.com/ferrari-denies-links-to-astana-fears-reputation-damage/http://twitter.com/TheJerseyPocket/status/541951283725619200
retweet of @velocast tweet
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Nibali had previous link to Ferrari too, while he was at Liquigas
plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose
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That's not quite true though, is it. I'm all for exposing dopers but nothing is in the public domain that shows that Nibali dopes.
No-one, except Ferrari and his clients, knows for sure who works with him. It was rumoured that he was working with a number of Liquigas riders, specifically Pellizotti, Kreuziger and Gasparotto, but no-one has, yet, proven this.
This investigation has linked 90 riders to Ferrari, but we don't know, yet, who they are and won't until charges are brought. Gazetta are being very clear though, that Nibali is not implicated in anyway.
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Gazetta would be very clear, but given the spate of positives at Astana and the the murky presence of Dr Ferrari, it is rather fanciful to draw of picture of a team where there is widespread doping APART from their top rider.
Of course that is speculative, but if Astana burns it will be very difficult to look at Nibali and be confident he is/has been riding clean
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There could be other explanations for performance drop off of course -Didn't she have her second child in 2010, for example? I don't follow athletics, but always had the impression of her being quite vocal about antidoping, with calls for big bans for cheating athletes and the like. Not saying she was definitely clean though. The ESPN article, and the stuff about Muller-Wohlfahrt, and Actovegin injections sounds right dodgy.
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Be interesting to see how he responds for sure. He's sounded pretty fucked off with the stuff up until now (but not fucked off enough to leave)!
What is the argument for not banning a whole team, or striking off results for the whole team, in the event of a doping positive in a particular race? EG Nibali would lose his TDF win because he was helped to get it by a juiced domestic.
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Well its looks increasingly like Astana will be denied a World Tour License, I think that is the only collective punishment the UCI can impose.
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^ and that's just one of the cases exposed in the documentary