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| CrueTrue |
Posted on 01-11-2007 10:03
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CrueTrue wrote:
AG2R has got a new co-sponsor which will also be included in their name - La Mondial.
Werner Franke has spoken publically again, this time critizing the blood passport. He said that it wouldn't help anything. What they couldn't discover before, they wouldn't be able to discover after the blood passport. In fact, he said that the blood passport would help the riders, since they would now be able to say: "Look in my passport - there's nothing wrong".
Paolo Bettini will probably take part in next year's Paris - Roubaix. He said that there was a few races which he had never won / participated in which he wouldn't like to miss.
Pat McQuaid has now admitted that they will probably never get more out of Operation Puerto than they got now. He said that the Spanish federation is not interested in fighting doping, and he also said that Valverde - Valv.Piti - is rider nr. 18.
(Valverde can't be too happy now)
The Freiburg doctors have had a visit from the police. After Sinkewitz' assertions, the police found it neccessary to raid their houses.
Jörg Jaksche has now withdrawn his accusations against Bjarne Riis. A few days ago, Jaksche said that Riis has threathened him not to say anything about his doping abuse.
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| MarcoPRT |
Posted on 01-11-2007 10:56
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We don't need an army to take Portugal. We already take it every single long weekend (like this one here in Spain, where November 1st is a public holiday)
Try to buy fuel in this side of the border and you'll miss your country imediately.
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| Dankan |
Posted on 01-11-2007 10:58
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| issoisso |
Posted on 01-11-2007 12:23
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From Cyclingnews:
Lab director alleges blood doping at Tour
The director of the WADA-accredited Swiss Laboratory for Analysis of Doping in Lausanne, Switzerland, has told Belgian newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws that he believed there was still widespread doping in the Tour de France this year. "47 out of 189 riders raced on blood transfusions or EPO," Martial Saugy alleged. "We have been able to show this from the samples taken at the health controls."
Still, Saugy added that these test results did not fulfil the requirements to be declared as 'positive'. "It is appalling, but we find so many test results that undoubtedly point to manipulation," he continued. "But there is a big difference between a suspicious sample and one that can be declared positive."
Saugy also found indications for the use of testosterone and growth hormone. "Especially the latter product is very popular at the moment," he added. "As soon as there will be a water-proof test for growth hormone, it will show that 80 percent [of the peloton] is taking it. I am disillusioned: the use of growth hormone is as bad as was the use of EPO and blood doping in the 90's."
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| KurtinSC |
Posted on 01-11-2007 12:27
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I'm suprised it's only 47. I would have expeceted at least 80 or 90. That story actually makes me feel better about the level of doping in cycling. |
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| issoisso |
Posted on 01-11-2007 13:18
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coincidences...
I went to IKEA this morning to buy myself a new chair. it was full of spanish people, so I thought of Dankan's comment about the spanish invading and laughed to myself.
now I was just having lunch when the news on TV were running a story on how the whole of Galicia comes to the IKEA store here to shop
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Posted on 01-11-2007 13:27
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Also says that 80 percent of the peloton is taking growth hormones |
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| MarcoPRT |
Posted on 01-11-2007 13:31
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They come here to shop, we go there to stock up with fuel and videogames, and in some cases hardware pieces...
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| Crommy |
Posted on 01-11-2007 16:32
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47 isn't as bad as I thought - there could be some hope after all, if only we could get the 47 banned
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| CrueTrue |
Posted on 01-11-2007 20:34
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You still forget what he says at the end -- that 80 % uses blood doping. That says a lot, doesn't it? |
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| KurtinSC |
Posted on 01-11-2007 21:07
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CrueTrue wrote:
You still forget what he says at the end -- that 80 % uses blood doping. That says a lot, doesn't it?
No, it says he believes 80% are using human growth harmone.
Honestly... I can't see why most cyclists would use HGH, unless they were a sprinter. It wouldn't suprise me if one of the oversized sprinters was using HGH, but I'd be shocked if someone like Rasmuessen or Contador was. It's kind of counter productive for a small climber... the extra power you'd get would be totally offset by the added weight. It's not like it's just muscle growing... your bones do as well (for those who follow baseball look at the ever increasing size of Barry Bond's skull).
And as for the test... there's a really simple one.
If your skull grows after you're 20 or so... you are on HGH. THere's no other way it can happen. |
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| issoisso |
Posted on 01-11-2007 22:30
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KurtinSC wrote:
(for those who follow baseball look at the ever increasing size of Barry Bond's skull).
"Two things happen: your balls shrink and your head grows. so if you see someone step up to the plate with a mardi-gras head and raisinettes: YOU'RE OUT" - Robin Williams
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| issoisso |
Posted on 01-11-2007 22:38
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Extremadura-Spiuk makes the jump from Continental to Pro Continental. aside from bragging rights with the sponsors about what they achieve in the continental ranking, the only real effect is that they won't be able to ride national events. unless this has changed lately.
Australia will also have a new Continental team.
Edited by issoisso on 01-11-2007 22:39
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| Dankan |
Posted on 01-11-2007 22:51
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And Extremadura is said to be signing... Heras!  |
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| issoisso |
Posted on 01-11-2007 23:07
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last I heard Heras said he had two offers, Relax and a team that asked him not to name them just yet.
Extremadura needs a big name to grow and Heras is available easily. the price to pay would ordinarily be suspicion, but since nothing's ever going to happen to them, they get their way at no cost.
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| Levi4life |
Posted on 01-11-2007 23:33
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I just looked at the the Front Page of VeloNews and the big article is titled "Armstrong, Leipheimer Beijing Bound" with a big pic of Levi. You can imagine my confusion right? the Armstrong refered to is Kristian Asrmstrong.
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| CrueTrue |
Posted on 02-11-2007 07:30
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issoisso wrote:
Australia will also have a new Continental team.
RoamFree / FreeRoam, I guess? |
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| CrueTrue |
Posted on 02-11-2007 07:51
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According to the Mayor of Culture in Copenhagen, Martin Geertsen, the local authority is yet to pay anything to the Bike City project, meaning that the World Championship might not go to Copenhagen in 2011. Same goes for the World Championship on track and the BMX World Cup race.
I'm totally shocked. I knew that the current mayors in Copenhagen were stupid, but ... that stupid?  I think I'm going to hang myself if they don't get themselves together soon! |
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 02-11-2007 08:21
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CrueTrue wrote:
issoisso wrote:
Australia will also have a new Continental team.
RoamFree / FreeRoam, I guess?
Not at all:
The Australia-based Praties cycling team has announced that it will become a Continental registered team for 2008. The team's major sponsor, Tasmanian baked potato franchise called Praties, has agreed to increase its commitment to enable the team to take the next step, which will see it compete in the complete National Road Series and The Jayco Herald Sun Tour.
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| doddy13 |
Posted on 02-11-2007 21:32
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In a report in The Independent newspaper on Friday, American scientists responsible for creating genetically modified mice with exceptional physical abilities have likened the super-rodents performance potential to that of seven-time Tour winner Lance Armstrong.
Biochemistry professor at the Case Western Reserve University in Ohio, Richard Hanson, was quoted as saying that the physical performance of the supermouse could only be compared to “supremely fit athletes like Armstrong”.
The mouse is capable of running six kilometres at speeds of 20 metres per minute for five hours - which The Independent says scientists claim is the “equivalent of a man cycling at speed up an Alpine mountain without a break".
“They are metabolically similar to Lance Armstrong biking up the Pyrenees.” Hanson, who led the research group into the mice, told the newspaper. “They utilise mainly fatty acids for energy and produce very little lactic acid.”
The Independent raised the possibility in the future that the findings about the so-called Supermouse - produced by injecting a gene which enhances an enzyme present mainly in the liver and kidneys - could be used by pharmaceutical companies to create products that enhance muscle performance. That would be good news for some patients, but at the same time might at some point in the future lead to abuse by athletes
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