Doping

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/uk-athletics-risks-funding-cut-after-failure-to-release-full-details-of-salazar-review-80bx9tqbc

The end of the affair for Mo?

end of the affair for Mo?

It's easy to mock, but Mo's refusal to answer his doorbell just shows that he was well ahead of the game in these self-isolating times

Doesn't really matter for mo does it, he's got the appearance fees and prize money. Withdrawing funding from other athletes won't really affect him will it?

Yeah, you could say the same about Armstrong but I think the thing that is most cathartic is the doper being exposed for what they are and the veneer of impervious defiance that they've built up in the media in response to allegations being well and truly torn apart. Faced with the funding cut UK athletics will hopefully be forced to hand over the info.

Can imagine a lot of people in athletics look on at Mo the same way we did Armstrong anyway and are actively hoping he gets caught, even if it is belated as you say.

Fair point

It does seem like athletics have all been a bit UCI over it, lots of Nike "ambassadors" seem to be administrators

https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/racing/french-rider-suspended-for-four-years-following-super-epo-positive-test-455691

It's appalling to treat a former winner of the Tour of Taiwan and the Tour of Bulgaria like this.

You may mock, but that cheating prick is taking money away from honest racers.

https://cyclingtips.com/2020/05/mexican-tt-champion-villalobos-suspended-after-doping-positive/

Does that mean EF are one case away from a suspension?

Like any rule in pro cycling is ever actually applied evenly or consistently! Especially with no racing on, they'll try to protect everything I'm sure so even if there were another four positives there will be some mitigating circumstances and it'll be forgotten about.

So how many riders are at home doped to the eyeballs knowing they won’t be tested during lockdown?

Isn't this a Tiernan-Locke scenario, where the doping happened before he joined the major team?

It looks like it, as the test was taken last April, he joined EF on August 1st.

“The burden of this is on the UCI because there is no internal testing program that has access to the level of equipment needed to screen for GHRP-6.”

Cue everyone stocking up on GHRP-6

Does testing only happen at competition?

No, but during social distancing could be a plausible reason to deny testers access

Valverde will be flying if the season restarts.

Salwa Eid Naser pimps herself to Bahrain, smashes up all recent records, becomes 400m world champion, misses a bunch of drug tests - insert your own sarcastic comment:

The 22-year-old took nearly a second off her personal best in running 48.18 in Doha – the fastest time by a woman since 1985. Only the East German Marita Koch and the Czech athlete Jarmila Kratochvilova have ever run faster.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/jun/05/salwa-eid-naser-400m-world-champion-faces-two-year-drugs-ban

hippy, with the simple addition of a jet engine, cycled the fastest ever 200m 1000m and 4000m times ever! in the Guinness book of Doped to Fuck or Cheating Cunts Records.

aidir?

Going slightly off at a tangent
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2020/jun/08/corruption-in-weightlifting-exposes-its-need-for-an-independent-enforcer

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/281712177436

Really? eBay seems to be full of products like this!

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/324056458805

I wish I hadn't clicked those links. My personalized ads are going to be fucked for weeks.

eBay seems to be full of products like this!
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/324056458805

Looks more like a curry recipe than a doping agent. It's a snake oil business rather than an actual drug dealing business.