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    Doping in XC skiing

    No one questioned the 800 hours. Perhaps you do not want to understand the point I was making? :rolleyes: Since Kalla was already above 800 hours when she herself stated that she would increase her training load in order to catch up with the norwegians, it is obviously quite possible that she's...
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    Doping in XC skiing

    Not sure where you got 600 h from. http://www.aftonbladet.se/sportbladet/vintersport/skidor/article16301487.ab Kalla was above 800 h (830) in 2013 and said she would increase her training load. You may have noticed she stepped up a level since then. 2013 was arguably her worst season and...
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    Detectability of micro-dosing?

    From an interview with norwegian anti-doping researcher Yvette Dehnes: I assume she is referring to this study. Detection of recombinant EPO in blood and urine samples with EPO WGA MAIIA, IEF and SAR-PAGE after microdose injections...
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    Team Ineos (Formerly the Sky thread)

    Nothing? But GW and AICAR are detectable.
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    Nordic Skiing/Biathlon Thread

    Weng celebrating 2nd place in a random World Cup race as if it was an olympic gold medal. :D It was a close, exciting and unpredictable race behind Marit who won comfortably. But the men's individual starts are turning into a joke. Krogh won in ?stersund because he ski sucked Manificat for a...
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    Doping in XC skiing

    Dyrhaug: Northug was boasting about his elevated hemoglobin (following an altitude camp) at the norwegian championships. http://www.adressa.no/100Sport/langrenn/article488554.snd Lance-esque. Northug was dope tested twice in one week at his private pre-worlds altitude camp in...
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    Doping in XC skiing

    I guess once OOC in 2015 sounds a bit worse than once OOC in a period of six weeks.
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    Doping in XC skiing

    dukoff approves of Therese's epic body fat %.
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    Doping in XC skiing

    Alleged training hours of some XC skiers. Bjorgen: 900-1000 h [1] Johaug: 900-1000 h [1] Used to be over 1000 but reduced to 900 ("I'll go down a little in quantity, and focus more on having quality at every session") [4] Kalla: 830 h in 2012-13. Probably increased since then ("I need...
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    Doping in XC skiing

    Only a fool would think Johaug and Jabocsen could go from 1-2 to ~30th in 3 days due to "chemistry". You were just as bright last year when a relay team consisting of 3 girls who won individual medals in Sochi and the TdS runner up were beaten by the french nobodies. It wasn't a ski prep issue...
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    Nordic Skiing/Biathlon Thread

    Makarainen with an early start would have been interesting.
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    Doping in XC skiing

    I don't think it's possible to draw any clinic related conclusions based on this joke of a race.
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    Doping in XC skiing

    Johaug and Jacobsen are obviously in great form. You really are shockingly thick if you do not realize that ski prep in combination with the drastic change in conditions was the issue today (although Bjorgen and Weng are probably not in TdS form).
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    Doping in XC skiing

    Congratulations on completely avoding to adress the point I made. :o I'm swedish btw. But not silly enough to think Kalla, Hellner and Olsson can beat the best skiing talents in Norway if they are at a 3-5% disadvantage. Your position is illogical.
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    Doping in XC skiing

    The notion that the norwegians are doped and gaining "3-5%" (Discgear) but Kalla, Hellner, Halfvarsson and Olsson are clean is obviously ludicrous. The norwegian talent pool is much larger, so if you give the best talents they can muster a 3-5% advantage, it is highly unlikely that any swede...
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    Doping in XC skiing

    Some have already pointed this out, but Cologna and Maxim both chose to fly home to Switzerland/Russia after the World Cup race in ?stersund, Sweden, just 6 days before the World Championships in Falun, Sweden. Extremely fishy.
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    Nordic Skiing/Biathlon Thread

    Chances are Bjorgen and Weng in top form would've made it a quadruple. I get why Marit peaked for the TdS, since it's the one prestigious race she had never won, but why didn't Heidi prioritize the Worlds? :confused: That Northug fellow sure is poor in mass starts. Not a single W in the last...
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    Doping in XC skiing

    Johaugs early season blow-outs: Ruka - 10 km C, 30.11.2014 JOHAUG Therese 1988 NOR 25:47.2 BJOERGEN Marit 1980 NOR 26:29.4 +2.7% KALLA Charlotte 1987 SWE 26:31.3 +2.8% Davos - 10 km C, 13.12.2014 JOHAUG Therese 1988 NOR 28:30.8 BJOERGEN Marit 1980...
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    Doping in XC skiing

    2.6% faster than Bjorgen, 3.8% Johaug, 4.3% Weng. Top norges vs lesser swedes: BJOERGEN Marit 1980 NOR 24:02.5 JOHAUG Therese 1988 NOR 24:19.7 +17.2 WENG Heidi 1991 NOR 24:27.4 +24.9 BLECKUR Sofia 1984 SWE 24:51.7 +49.2 RYDQVIST Maria 1983 SWE 25:00.5 +58...
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    Doping in XC skiing

    Charlotte Kalla :o Possibly the most ridiculous performance since M?hlegg.
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