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Re: Frank Schleck
Postby Mulger bill » Wed Jul 18, 2012 6:37 pm
Oh, I love to have a wee with Fronky, I love to have a wee with Fronk...
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Re: Frank Schleck
Postby greyhoundtom » Wed Jul 18, 2012 7:01 pm

That is the bit that I find so damn difficult to understand.
How hard would it be to spike a water bottle handed out to a rider with a banned substance?

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Re: Frank Schleck
Postby open roader » Wed Jul 18, 2012 9:32 pm
greyhoundtom wrote:How hard would it be to spike a water bottle handed out to a rider with a banned substance?
About as easy as accidentally spilling a box or two of tacks on the road.............
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Re: Frank Schleck
Postby jules21 » Thu Jul 19, 2012 11:44 am
greyhoundtom wrote:How hard would it be to spike a water bottle handed out to a rider with a banned substance?
i think these days they only drink from bottles handed to them by team personnel.
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Re: Frank Schleck
Postby tallywhacker » Thu Jul 19, 2012 1:12 pm
Use of DMSO in medicine dates from around 1963, when an Oregon Health & Science University Medical School team, headed by Stanley Jacob, discovered it could penetrate the skin and other membranes without damaging them and could carry other compounds into a biological system. In medicine, DMSO is predominantly used as a topical analgesic, a vehicle for topical application of pharmaceuticals, as an anti-inflammatory, and an antioxidant.[13] Because DMSO increases the rate of absorption of some compounds through organic tissues, including skin, it can be used as a drug delivery system. It is frequently compounded with antifungal medications, enabling them to penetrate not just skin but also toe and fingernails.
DMSO is easily available from veterinary suppliers. It's an anti-inflamatory linament (I have a rollon that I used when I played soccer) used mainly on horses. I read that during the cold war it was mixed with cyanide and then put on a steering wheel to permanently nobble someone.
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Re: Frank Schleck
Postby jules21 » Thu Jul 19, 2012 1:28 pm
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Re: Frank Schleck
Postby g-boaf » Thu Jul 19, 2012 1:38 pm
clackers wrote:Marto wrote:
Sad, when the Gabriel Gate cooking segment is the highlight. I'll go nuts if I have to sit through the Swisse ads for much longer.
You must be loving the erection medication ads, too, Marto. Take a pill and your house and garden go topsy turvy around you!
I think I've seen enough of 'pitching tents' on those adverts to drive me nuts, same as Swisse and "Ryan Murphy WIIINS!!!"

It's a shame that drugs have overshadowed the Tour once again. But it seems to be a select group that it happens to so far.
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Re: Frank Schleck
Postby clackers » Thu Jul 19, 2012 1:55 pm
jules21 wrote:how come mother theresa never tested positive?
You'd be surprised, Jules. IIRC, Christopher Hitchens wrote a book that exposed her as a 'fanatic, fundamentalist, and a fraud'.
Blood doping was about the only thing she didn't do, apparently!
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Re: Frank Schleck
Postby jules21 » Thu Jul 19, 2012 2:16 pm
clackers wrote:You'd be surprised, Jules. IIRC, Christopher Hitchens wrote a book that exposed her as a 'fanatic, fundamentalist, and a fraud'.
Blood doping was about the only thing she didn't do, apparently!
crikey moser's are there any clean riders?!
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Re: Frank Schleck
Postby find_bruce » Thu Jul 19, 2012 2:28 pm
clackers wrote:jules21 wrote:how come mother theresa never tested positive?
You'd be surprised, Jules. IIRC, Christopher Hitchens wrote a book that exposed her as a 'fanatic, fundamentalist, and a fraud'.
Blood doping was about the only thing she didn't do, apparently!
That would be Mother Teresa (no h) and the book was "The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice".
I must confess that I am not aware that Agnes had history as a bike rider - must have been before my time. Which team did she ride for ?
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Re: Frank Schleck
Postby tallywhacker » Thu Jul 19, 2012 2:36 pm
jules21 wrote:the thing is though tallywhacker, it always seems to happen to the usual suspects - bertie contador, lance, frank schleck, schapelle corby. how come mother theresa never tested positive?
I wouldn't say the usual suspects but maybe just the high profile riders that tend to polarise people.
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Re: Frank Schleck
Postby clackers » Thu Jul 19, 2012 2:37 pm
find_bruce wrote:
I must confess that I am not aware that Agnes had history as a bike rider - must have been before my time. Which team did she ride for ?
I think it was for Opus Dei in the Giro, Bruce!

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Re: Frank Schleck
Postby jules21 » Thu Jul 19, 2012 3:04 pm
tallywhacker wrote:I wouldn't say the usual suspects but maybe just the high profile riders that tend to polarise people.
all of those people i mentioned had form - either with connections to Dr Fuentes, Dr Ferrari, or trafficking weed

the riders with clean records - they never seem to be 'poisoned' or eat dodgy beef.
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Re: Frank Schleck
Postby Mulger bill » Thu Jul 19, 2012 8:05 pm
jules21 wrote:the thing is though tallywhacker, it always seems to happen to the usual suspects - bertie contador, lance, frank schleck, schapelle corby. how come mother theresa never tested positive?
Y'know something? First up reading this I didn't read the posters name and me first thought was "Goodonyer Womble..."

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Re: Frank Schleck
Postby jules21 » Thu Jul 19, 2012 9:17 pm
Mulger bill wrote:Y'know something? First up reading this I didn't read the posters name and me first thought was "Goodonyer Womble..."
do i take that as a compliment?

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Re: Frank Schleck
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Re: Frank Schleck
Postby foo on patrol » Sat Jul 21, 2012 8:07 pm
Mulger bill wrote:Does Fronk actually need anything in a physical sense? Negative descending skills and a TT position like a crab balancing on a golfball are his deficiencies.
Oh, I love to have a wee with Fronky, I love to have a wee with Fronk...
This cracked me up!


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Re: Frank Schleck
Postby foo on patrol » Sat Jul 21, 2012 8:10 pm
jules21 wrote:greyhoundtom wrote:How hard would it be to spike a water bottle handed out to a rider with a banned substance?
i think these days they only drink from bottles handed to them by team personnel.
You would be right on this Jules!

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