Doping

Need to drop some 'wild boar' comments on that article.

haven't seen this posted in here, shook up the weightlifting world:

https://www.allthingsgym.com/lord-of-the-lifters-herr-der-heber-german-documentary-investigating-the-iwf-and-doping/

Danish media linking Jakob Fuglsang and Alexey Lutsenko with Dr Michele Ferrari;

https://politiken.dk/sport/cykling/art7634811/Secret-report-connects-Jakob-Fuglsang-with-infamous-banned-doping-doctor

Nice. Any ideas who the cyclist that saw them might have been?

That's depressing.

Nothing is really shaken up in WL until bans are handed out though - and even if they are, they’ll wait until after the olympics. Shame really, no one remembers who technically won when people are DQ’d after the fact.

Wild. Can't believe that a team managed by a former client of Ferrari's who said he's a good bloke would then go on to use Ferrari's services.

Surely there are more subtle ways to dope than to go all-in and hire the most infamous doper's most infamous doctor.

Surely there are more subtle ways to dope than to go all-in and hire the most infamous doper's most infamous doctor

You'd think so. I can't decide if they're stupid, that they think everyone else is stupid or that they just think they'll never be caught (which I suppose is more or less the same). The idea that not only are they turning to Ferrari for help but that he even does motopacing for them is just incredible. If it wasn't Astana you'd assume someone was taking the piss and it was April Fool's day.

Wasn't Ferrari spotted with an Astana logo'd suitcase not long ago?

Ferrari's response

https://www.53x12.com/copy-of-epower-or-placepo-1

I have never been convicted of doping

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Wasn’t he spotted at their training camp a few years back.....?

https://road.cc/content/news/138114-banned-doctor-michele-ferrari-photographed-astana-training-camp-last-year

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rUGNKwcbbDw

I never believed the earlier videos about motors in bikes ...

Why not?

And is Arlen still racing or retired now?

Have you ever raced cyclocross? Incidents like all of those happen a lot, because of the course conditions and the available grip from 33 mm wide tyres.

Raced a little. Mostly the last snippet when the back wheel was spinning seemed very odd to me. Was on on my cross on 33s in mud yesterday- but alas cannot throw out those watts.

Addition: watching again today - I dont get the same feeling I had yesterday.... carry on

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/feb/24/leaked-reports-show-mo-farah-changed-account-to-us-investigators

UKA head of distance running Barry Fudge (alongside UKA chief med officer, UKA performance director, and Salazar) witnessed Farah being injected with amino acids before the 2014 London marathon. Seems legit.

Also, Barry Fudge.

What happened to injections being prohibited? Or are they going to claim it was under the limit?

Why am I asking these questions before reading the article like some kind of Facebook idiot. Sheesh, hippy!

Funny how sports people all have a short memory when it comes to peds.

Yeah, who forgets a friggin' injection?

(well apart from the hospital that left the needle in my arm)

An injection so forgettable your coach, performance director and UKA chief medical officer came along for shits and giggles.

What happened to injections being prohibited?

That's a cycling thing after MPCC adopted it and UCI then picked it up. It's also a thing games-wide at the Olympics since 2012, but that doesn't seem to extend to the time outside of the actual Olympiad for track and field.

It's prohibited according to WADA:
https://www.wada-ama.org/en/questions-answers/prohibited-list-qa#item-1406

https://www.usada.org/spirit-of-sport/education/is-it-prohibited-or-dangerous-for-athletes-using-iv-infusions-for-re-hydration-and-recovery/

It's prohibited according to WADA:

"not prohibited...if they do not exceed 100 mL per 12 hour period" (your source)

Farah's injection was less, also less than the 50ml per 6-hours in the 2014 code.