Doping

How far back do you go though? Cav took Erik Zabel's old swannie with him from T-Mob/HTC to Sky and Etixx QS and you know he knows what the score was with Ullrich etc.

Who said anything about going back? The rule/law would have to be changed first. Then when there's evidence of team doping in the future, the whole team is fucked off and banned from entering further teams.

More ill informed comments from JTL;

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/tiernan-locke-launches-another-attack-on-the-uci-and-the-biological-passport

Someone needs to teach him some Abraham Lincoln quotes, specifically "It is better to remain quiet and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt."

Talking of fools, look who's back;

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/manolo-siz-sets-up-new-under-23-cycling-team

He'll be about as welcome as a fart in a spacesuit.

This is what I was talking about earlier in this thread - these fuckers should be refused permission to create new teams or manage teams. Dirty management should be removed.

Mo also missed two doping tests in a row it appears.

Some of the stuff coming from Mo/Salazar is almost a copy/paste from Armstrong/Ferrari

Another rugby player gets popped and the Guardian has a story about a national gym chain putting needle boxes in their toilets as so many users are doing IV 'roids.

Link to article

If they're doing it IV they're probably doing it wrong. Steroids are usually intramuscular.

http://ekstrabladet.dk/sport/cykling/afsloering-dopingrapport-daekker-over-dansk-cykelhelt/5618022

Is this the first of the traditional pre-Tour doping scandals?

With Riis gone though, can't see it being that impactful.

The final report will be published tomorrow at 9:30 Danish time.

Well, the Danish Anti Doping commission are trying to cover for Nicki Sørensen and he's a current directeur sportif at Tinkoff-Saxo, so there might be some impact.

What's going on, I'm so confused?

Don't worry, as long as it's all in Danish it will definitely not be very impactful. :)

You mean a rider active in the late 90s and early 2000s might have doped? Wow.

What do the Danish authorities expect to achieve from trying to cover this up?

A close family member is a riot cop in NI, where there are still proper riots, and has been regularly hospitalised by bricks, bottles, petrol bombs etc. The thing they worry about most is trouble outside nightclubs, as there's an explosion of teen roid ragers who are preternaturaly strong, incapable of reason, and were immature, thick and violent before they even started the drugs.

The point is not that Nicki Sørensen doped. Everyone knows that and he confirmed it himself. The point is that his testimony/confession has been censored from the final report and now the Danish anti-doping authorities are threatening Michael Rasmussen with legal action, if he publicises the drafts he'd been sent for review. Drafts which contained Nicki Sørensens confession. Why would the anti-doping authorities try to cover it up? Has he given evidence against someone in exchange for it (that would seem a bit silly, since his public confession earlier)? A complete omission from the report is quite something else than a reduced sentence for cooperating, so I'll assume that someone important is trying to hide something. I'll keep on my tinfoil hat until the report gets released tomorrow...
(Sorry, if some of the above is unclear, not my first language)

It's very clear.

It's mystifying isn't it? Who are they trying to protect? Could it be Rasmus Damsgaard?

Jesper Worre?

But yeah, Rasmus Damsgaard is a good bet as well.

Nicki Sørensen has now made a public statement saying he doped 'in the early years' of his career and the draft that contained his testimony got sent to Michael Rasmussen by mistake. And he says he's not made any deals with the Danish anti-doping authorities...

That the draft got sent to Michael Rasmussen by mistake seems odd, since they sent him several different copies for him to sign off...

Liar, caught out, tough luck

I remember seeing a needle bin at my gym for the first time, legitimately shocked me that they would be so brazen.

So Riis both knew his riders were doping and was telling them too (Sastre in 2008). I'm shocked. Not.

What's the point of this report if the statute of limitations means no-one is going to be sanctioned?