A new take on "I never tested positive"
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A new take on "I never tested positive"
Postby gretaboy » Wed Jun 12, 2013 1:37 pm
http://www.news.com.au/sport/new-study- ... 6661457505" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Takes a different approach to "testing"
"Forget 'I never tested positive'. It needs to be replaced by 'I was never clocked by a radar doing 430 watts standards in the final col of a long mountain stage.' It's utterly more convincing. "We placed our radars at the following thresholds: "Suspicious" at 410 watts standard, "Miraculous" at 430 watts, and "Mutant" at 450 watts."
But then again, if you know where the "testers" are I am sure you could fake it during that section
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Re: A new take on "I never tested positive"
Postby twizzle » Wed Jun 12, 2013 2:21 pm
...real cyclists don't have squeaky chains...
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Re: A new take on "I never tested positive"
Postby find_bruce » Wed Jun 12, 2013 2:21 pm
Pharmstrong was always very careful not to disclose his weight & would make that point when a number of analysts questioned his high power figures.
Of course it can and is measured, religiously by the teams. As a doping indicator though, wouldn't it have the same issues as the blood passport ?
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Re: A new take on "I never tested positive"
Postby jules21 » Wed Jun 12, 2013 2:40 pm
pro cycling is like holding a survival contest on a desert island with 200 contestants with a rule against consuming any food or drink, but leaving a loaf of bread and jug of water out in the open. when the winner prevails and the food and drink is missing, we then debate ad nauseum whether they are a champion or cheat.
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Re: A new take on "I never tested positive"
Postby Mulger bill » Wed Jun 12, 2013 7:49 pm
I'd be wary of using calculated numbers for something like this. Maybe it's time for realtime GPS and powermeter telemetry from all riders in the official tent?
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Re: A new take on "I never tested positive"
Postby clackers » Thu Jun 13, 2013 9:52 am
If a radical step is needed to fight public perception (and it took till not long ago for cycling to be confirmed for future Olympics), then make all that data publicly available ... yes, even to the opponents.Mulger bill wrote:
I'd be wary of using calculated numbers for something like this. Maybe it's time for realtime GPS and powermeter telemetry from all riders in the official tent?
The owner of one of my LBS (former Hong Kong Olympian and national coach) said you don't need routine inspections to pinpoint who needs to be targeted for specific testing, you just go over their power outputs from race days.
Michele Ferrari didn't even need that data ... he used to be given the times and routes of enemy climbers and would do his VAM calculation (part of Strava, even, IIRC).
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Re: A new take on "I never tested positive"
Postby gretaboy » Thu Jun 13, 2013 9:59 am
If any data gets leaked, then prosecute the ones who dealt with the information, have rules in place to cover this aspect.
Use it conjunction with the blood passport. This if they are really serious about cleaning the sport up.
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Re: A new take on "I never tested positive"
Postby Ross » Thu Jun 13, 2013 10:34 am
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festina_affair" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;data compiled by French performance expert and former Festina trainer Antoine Voyer
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Re: A new take on "I never tested positive"
Postby jules21 » Thu Jun 13, 2013 10:35 am
that's never been made a secretRoss wrote:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festina_affair" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;data compiled by French performance expert and former Festina trainer Antoine Voyer
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Re: A new take on "I never tested positive"
Postby clackers » Thu Jun 13, 2013 11:34 am
They'll have to be, like the scrutineers at election ballot boxes who include representatives of the parties.gretaboy wrote:The numbers dont have to be given to other competitors...
This is because as Tyler Hamilton and Michael Ashenden have said, the UCI has a conflict of interest when they are both the police and promoters of the sport.
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Re: A new take on "I never tested positive"
Postby Sharkey » Thu Jun 13, 2013 2:07 pm
Including this:
The first 18 pages of the 148 page book are available free here: Not Normal? free previewThomas Voeckler, Hinault and Wiggins fall into Not Normal’s suspicious category; Chris Froome, Andy Schleck and Laurent Jalabert into the miraculous; Alberto Contador, Miguel Indurain, Jan Ullrich, and Lance Armstrong fall into the mutant classification on some performances, or had at times in their careers.
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Re: A new take on "I never tested positive"
Postby __PG__ » Thu Jun 13, 2013 2:32 pm
Physically the man was a freak even before he took EPO.
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Re: A new take on "I never tested positive"
Postby __PG__ » Thu Jun 13, 2013 2:42 pm
92 kgs..he needs to spend more time on the bikeMujika I. wrote: Age-related fitness declines in athletes can be due to both aging and detraining. Very little is known about the physiological and performance decline of professional cyclists after retirement from competition. To gain some insight into the aging and detraining process of elite cyclists, 5-time Tour de France winner and Olympic Champion Miguel Indurain performed a progressive cycle-ergometer test to exhaustion 14 y after retirement from professional cycling (age 46 y, body mass 92.2 kg). His maximal values were oxygen uptake 5.29 L/min (57.4 mL · kg-1 · min-1), aerobic power output 450 W (4.88 W/kg), heart rate 191 beats/min, blood lactate 11.2 mM. Values at the individual lactate threshold (ILT): 4.28 L/min (46.4 mL · kg-1 · min-1), 329 W (3.57 W/kg), 159 beats/min, 2.4 mM. Values at the 4-mM onset of blood lactate accumulation (OBLA): 4.68 L/min (50.8 mL · kg-1 · min-1), 369 W (4.00 W/kg), 170 beats/min. Average cycling gross efficiency between 100 and 350 W was 20.1%, with a peak value of 22.3% at 350 W. Delta efficiency was 27.04%. Absolute maximal oxygen uptake and aerobic power output declined by 12.4% and 15.2% per decade, whereas power output at ILT and OBLA declined by 19.8% and 19.2%. Larger declines in maximal and submaximal values relative to body mass (19.4-26.1%) indicate that body composition changed more than aerobic characteristics. Nevertheless, Indurain's absolute maximal and submaximal oxygen uptake and power output still compare favorably with those exhibited by active professional cyclists.
His measured VO2 max of 57.4 mL · kg-1 · min-1 has dropped somewhat from his recorded maximum of 88 (Greg Le Mond recorded 92).
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Postby Alex Simmons/RST » Thu Jun 13, 2013 3:11 pm
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Re: A new take on "I never tested positive"
Postby clackers » Thu Jun 13, 2013 3:35 pm
I remember looking at Jens Voigt's data for a ride published in Bicycling magazine and thinking ... this should simply be the way for all riders ... a matter of public record, never mind that the numbers tell the opposition exactly who's in good form or feeling badly.
Accountability will have to trump the mind games team directors like to play.
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Re: A new take on "I never tested positive"
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Re: A new take on "I never tested positive"
Postby Mulger bill » Thu Jun 13, 2013 8:51 pm
Which is why real time monitoring using organiser provided equipment would be needed.Alex Simmons/RST wrote:all it will do is introduce data doping along with physiological doping.
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Re: A new take on "I never tested positive"
Postby toolonglegs » Thu Jun 13, 2013 9:18 pm
UCI would have to inforce a rule for all riders to run a powermeter and an aerial, they would have to check calibration before every stage on every bike ( including spares ) 600 bikes / wheels a day in a TDF maybe, they would have to force everyone to run standard round chainrings ( not more Oval's ) etc etc... it will never happen.Mulger bill wrote:Which is why real time monitoring using organiser provided equipment would be needed.Alex Simmons/RST wrote:all it will do is introduce data doping along with physiological doping.
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Re: A new take on "I never tested positive"
Postby Alex Simmons/RST » Fri Jun 14, 2013 4:45 pm
Aside from what TLL points out, it's just barking up the wrong tree.Mulger bill wrote:Which is why real time monitoring using organiser provided equipment would be needed.Alex Simmons/RST wrote:all it will do is introduce data doping along with physiological doping.
"Performance based doping control", for want of a better phrase, is meaningless because it only puts a spotlight on the leading performers who are already under scrutiny, but does nothing to identify those dopers who are not GC contenders but still influence the outcome of races and dupe legitimate riders out of opportunity.
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