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

Jens Voigt

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.

Who else?

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Postby rustychisel » Fri Oct 12, 2012 12:18 am

sometime, you will get over your devastation. C'mon...

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Postby Howzat » Fri Oct 12, 2012 12:26 am

Cadel Evans

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 toolonglegs » Fri Oct 12, 2012 1:04 am

East German who started riding in the 90's... yeah don't like your chances mate.

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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 philip » Fri Oct 12, 2012 8:16 am

Rogers has been named as being at the dodgy training camps too...

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Postby DaveOZ » Fri Oct 12, 2012 8:39 am

norbs wrote: But, but, he denied it on Twitter. ;)
:lol: Must be true then.

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Postby liamb » Fri Oct 12, 2012 9:12 am

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.
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Postby familyguy » Fri Oct 12, 2012 9:15 am

I hope, I hope he didn't dope: Stuart O'Grady.

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'.
philip wrote:Rogers has been named as being at the dodgy training camps too...
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?

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Postby find_bruce » Fri Oct 12, 2012 9:19 am

You think Jens Voight didn't take dope - seriously dude he can't have come up with all those one liners without assistance from the weed :)
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Postby scotto » Fri Oct 12, 2012 9:20 am

liamb wrote:.....or worse still BMC, Orica Green Edge, etc...
going by their results, if they were testing something, it didnt work !

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Postby g-boaf » Fri Oct 12, 2012 9:58 am

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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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.

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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Postby Shred931 » Fri Oct 12, 2012 10:13 am

Apparently Rogers only received diet and training programs from Ferrari -_-

Where have we heard that before?!

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Postby biker jk » Fri Oct 12, 2012 11:10 am

philip wrote:Rogers has been named as being at the dodgy training camps too...
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.

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Postby JustJames » Fri Oct 12, 2012 12:21 pm

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Shred931 wrote:Apparently Rogers only received diet and training programs from Ferrari -_-

Where have we heard that before?!
Olive oil in the diet?
Orange juice, more likely.
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Postby Howzat » Fri Oct 12, 2012 12:25 pm

g-boaf wrote:If the Sky team was caught out, it'd destroy the reputation of cycling for a very long time.
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. :roll:

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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Re: I hope, I hope he didn't dope

Postby Ross » Fri Oct 12, 2012 12:35 pm

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 Undertow » Fri Oct 12, 2012 12:38 pm

liamb wrote:Apparently there is huge money out there for rouge development scientists to use their findings or accidental findings.
So the commies are to blame?
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Postby yarravalleyplodder » Fri Oct 12, 2012 1:09 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.
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 that

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Postby g-boaf » Fri Oct 12, 2012 1:16 pm

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liamb wrote:Apparently there is huge money out there for rouge development scientists to use their findings or accidental findings.
So the commies are to blame?
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:
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?
For full effect, you need to see the interview itself, with Senna saying that completely seriously, straight-faced and with absolute conviction.

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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Postby Chris249 » Fri Oct 12, 2012 1:56 pm

G Boaf wrote "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."

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

yarravalleyplodder wrote:That's the way it is in sports, no prizes for second - people only care about wins.
Well, as Chris249 says, there are prizes for second... but point taken.

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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Postby Chris249 » Fri Oct 12, 2012 2:19 pm

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
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.

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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Postby JustJames » Fri Oct 12, 2012 2:24 pm

liamb wrote:Apparently there is huge money out there for rouge development scientists to use their findings or accidental findings.
Those darn' cosmetic companies!

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