I hope, I hope he didn't dope
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I hope, I hope he didn't dope
Postby bigfriendlyvegan » Thu Oct 11, 2012 11:38 pm
I will be completely devastated if it ever comes out he did. If we're going to have cycling heroes, I'm willing to have him.
And before someone points it out: Jens doesn't take drugs, drugs take him to perform better.
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Postby Howzat » Fri Oct 12, 2012 12:26 am
He certainly rides like he's clean. This year, he attempted a dramatic attack in the mountains of the TdF, but his legs gave out 250m later, and Team Sky caught and powered past him without even getting out of their saddles.
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Re: I hope, I hope he didn't dope
Postby norbs » Fri Oct 12, 2012 2:00 am
toolonglegs wrote:East German who started riding in the 90's... yeah don't like your chances mate.
But, but, he denied it on Twitter.
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Postby DaveOZ » Fri Oct 12, 2012 8:39 am
Must be true then.norbs wrote: But, but, he denied it on Twitter.
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Re: I hope, I hope he didn't dope
Postby liamb » Fri Oct 12, 2012 9:12 am
My mother and Aunt are involved in the Pharmaceutical industry in a supporting role for Big company R&D and also developing Lab tests to test the Substance performance. On a recent Skype convo with my Aunt she tells me the there are currently 6 substances (not all performance enhancing) out there that were known to be used in the Olympics and other events this year that are unable to be accurately tested at this stage. She tells me they were widely available through several Specialists in the Sport Sciences and Athlete development areas in Europe and the US. She has no idea of the hows and wheres but the substances were developed as off shoots of recovery and rehab drugs for serious accident victims. Apparently there is huge money out there for rouge development scientists to use their findings or accidental findings. Seems like no matter the sport or the athlete there are still the drugs out there and probably will never go away. I would hate to think a team like Sky who basically shut the race down by using the whole team to ride everyone else into the ground in the TDF were using something that cant be tested for or worse still BMC, Orica Green Edge, etc.
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Postby familyguy » Fri Oct 12, 2012 9:15 am
I think the East German systematic doping regime fell apart when the East did, so if Jens had an assisted start, he's not had the same ongoing 'support'.
Rogers was named as his team being in the same location as USPS (while he was at T-Mobile) a couple of seasons running, not named as a definite doper. That said, he had links to Doc Ferrari, which were severed at team requests. But T-Mobile haven't exactly covered themselves in untainted glory out of all of this, have they?philip wrote:Rogers has been named as being at the dodgy training camps too...
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Postby scotto » Fri Oct 12, 2012 9:20 am
going by their results, if they were testing something, it didnt work !liamb wrote:.....or worse still BMC, Orica Green Edge, etc...
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Postby g-boaf » Fri Oct 12, 2012 9:58 am
Certainly hope they weren't... But the whole thing taints the sport badly and all the riders are suspected by the general public. If the Sky team was caught out, it'd destroy the reputation of cycling for a very long time.liamb wrote:I would hate to think a team like Sky who basically shut the race down by using the whole team to ride everyone else into the ground in the TDF were using something that cant be tested for or worse still BMC, Orica Green Edge, etc.
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I follow the Slipstream Sports team which is supposedly clean - I guess I'd be pretty disappointed if they weren't. They have some in the team who were formerly done for doping, Millar, Vaughters, etc. It was the documentary Blood, Sweat + Gears about that team that initially got me interested in this great sport.
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Re: I hope, I hope he didn't dope
Postby Shred931 » Fri Oct 12, 2012 10:13 am
Where have we heard that before?!
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Postby biker jk » Fri Oct 12, 2012 11:10 am
Yes but he was putting out his best power numbers on climbs during this year's TdF, better than the dodgy T-Mobile/Ferrari days, so suspicious to say the least.philip wrote:Rogers has been named as being at the dodgy training camps too...
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Postby JustJames » Fri Oct 12, 2012 12:21 pm
Orange juice, more likely.Oxford wrote:Olive oil in the diet?Shred931 wrote:Apparently Rogers only received diet and training programs from Ferrari -_-
Where have we heard that before?!
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Postby Howzat » Fri Oct 12, 2012 12:25 pm
I think that's already underway with the USADA dossier - and will be pretty much complete when Contador, who has already had a title stripped, wins the TdF next year.g-boaf wrote:If the Sky team was caught out, it'd destroy the reputation of cycling for a very long time.
Oh, and someone needs to remind Sky to make it look like riding the Alps in the TdF is hard work - you know, grimace a little or splash yourself with a bottle to make it look like you're raising a sweat.
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Postby Ross » Fri Oct 12, 2012 12:35 pm
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Postby Undertow » Fri Oct 12, 2012 12:38 pm
So the commies are to blame?liamb wrote:Apparently there is huge money out there for rouge development scientists to use their findings or accidental findings.
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Re: I hope, I hope he didn't dope
Postby yarravalleyplodder » Fri Oct 12, 2012 1:09 pm
If I understand this article correctly you can test for transfusions because the body stops producing some enzyme / cell when there is too much blood, so they can see if there is a low count in juvenile cells or something like thatRoss wrote:There is no testing for blood transfusions. If the red blood cells (which transfusing is supposed to boost) are below a certain level then they will pass the doping tests. Read Tyler hamilton's book for more detail.
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Postby g-boaf » Fri Oct 12, 2012 1:16 pm
Where there is professional sport or even motorsports, there will be people looking to push the edge all over the world. The will to win, and the pressure to win will make that happen, the huge money is force for that. Ayrton Senna, the infamous but legendary Brazilian racing driver characterised it very well in an interview with Sir Jackie Stewart:Undertow wrote:So the commies are to blame?liamb wrote:Apparently there is huge money out there for rouge development scientists to use their findings or accidental findings.
For full effect, you need to see the interview itself, with Senna saying that completely seriously, straight-faced and with absolute conviction.Ayrton Senna da Silva wrote:Being a racing driver means you are racing with other people and if you no longer go for a gap that exists you are no longer a racing driver - because we are competing, we are competing to win and the main motivation to all of us is to compete for a victory. It's not to come third, fourth, fifth or sixth. Right?
And you'd have to admit, he's right, isn't he? That's the way it is in sports, no prizes for second - people only care about wins. Be it gold medals, TdF wins, or P1 in a motor-race. That's the way it is and it always will be, regardless of how much people try to clean things up, or in motorsports, regulate development.
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Postby ratter » Fri Oct 12, 2012 1:52 pm
Ross wrote:There is no testing for blood transfusions. If the red blood cells (which transfusing is supposed to boost) are below a certain level then they will pass the doping tests. Read Tyler hamilton's book for more detail.
happy to be corrected, but a tell tale sign of blood doping is the amount of plasticizers in the blood
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Re: I hope, I hope he didn't dope
Postby Chris249 » Fri Oct 12, 2012 1:56 pm
Dunno about that; some very, very determined people are very happy to get a bronze medal as the result of years of training and dedication. Others at Olympic level will train flat out for years despite knowing that because of advancing years etc they are not in the picture for a win, but they still strive to do well. This may depend on the culture of the individual sport and the mentality of the competitor, though.
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Postby Howzat » Fri Oct 12, 2012 2:05 pm
Well, as Chris249 says, there are prizes for second... but point taken.yarravalleyplodder wrote:That's the way it is in sports, no prizes for second - people only care about wins.
But as long as there have been games, there have been cheats - that's why the rules are there. What we need are umpires that give cheats the boot on the spot, rather than 10 years later.
And certainly we need umpires willing to enforce the rules rather than playing wink-and-giggle for 10 years before the evidence piles into hors-categorie mountains.
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Re: I hope, I hope he didn't dope
Postby Chris249 » Fri Oct 12, 2012 2:19 pm
David Millar specifically says that Moncouts and a few others were clean. If I recall correctly, Moncouts gets the most mentions because he was sharing a team with Millar and therefore would discuss doping more. Moncouts was never a GC winner but he did get some pretty good results so (as Millar says) you could win clean sometimes.liamb wrote:if you follow the general principal that just about everyone was doing it just to keep up with the peloton there seems to be little chance many riders were totally clean. Maybe it will end up being who took less not who took it at all. For me it would be heart breaking if Evans, O'Grady, Mcewen, Voigt, etc took anything.Bill
Millar also mentions McEwen doing his lid when an EPO-fuelled peleton were driving at ridiculous speeds, yelling out "stop, this is not f*&^g bike racing" etc, which could indicate that he was not involved.
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Re: I hope, I hope he didn't dope
Postby JustJames » Fri Oct 12, 2012 2:24 pm
Those darn' cosmetic companies!liamb wrote:Apparently there is huge money out there for rouge development scientists to use their findings or accidental findings.
I always knew Wiggo's sideburns had to be fake.
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