Recent content by _Zipp0_

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    Universal Sports Spring Cycling Package

    I lost Milan San Remo. I emailed them stating that I would be disputing the charge unless they gave me a refund. I had my refund the next day. On the fence about buying the Giro after this debacle.
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    are we seeing the effects of new PED

    Methylhexanamine? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methylhexanamine#Safety Seems to cause heart attacks in healthy young men and you can get it OTC.
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    Floyd to be charged with fraud

    The Floyd fairness Fund was to fight the charge that he had synthetic testosterone in his system. To this day he insists that he did not take any kind of testosterone and that he should not have been busted for that. He did admit to all knds of hematocrit enhancing doping, but he was not busted...
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    Chris Horner's secret - beetroot juice?

    I like Horner. He's 40.... I'm 40. It's inspiring to see an "old" guy take it to the field. I think it CAN be done. When I drop a 25 year old Cat 4 is he thinking "look at the old Cat 4 doper?" If so, that is just sad. People must need excuses for their own lack of dedication.
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    doping at club level?

    Maybe he has bad allergies or EIA. If that is the case it wasn't performance enhancing, but performance loss limiting. And would you expect the guy to get a TUE for the club ride?
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    Is the Passport a dead Duck?

    I said from the beginning - It's like walking into someones home, finding 15 LED HD TV's and hauling them off to jail as they MUST be a thief. Also, the standard defense when people question blood numbers that get released is "Oh, you are not a haematologist/scientist, so you have no...
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    Landis Credibility Boost?

    The raw documents from the Landis/Verbruggen exchange over bank guarantees seem to indicate that Landis may have some credibility after all: http://cyclocosm.com/2011/02/raw-documents-the-verbruggenlandis-exchange/ If Landis has credibility on this issue, does that lend credence to his...
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    NBA Player suspended 10 Games for DHEA-Fair Deal or pattern for all sports?

    DHEA does nothing, except maybe increase estrogen and maybe make you more prone to hair loss. Honestly, I don't care if my competition takes 100 DHEA pills a day, since it will do nothing for them, and maybe actually hurt performance.
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    Official 1 year ban

    Since he will be the second TDF winner stripped of the yellow jersey, will he be black-balled from all future Pro Tour teams and shunned completely from all future high level international competition? If not, why not? Will he start the Alberto Fairness Fund? Write a book? Out all the...
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    How does a classics rider win the Tour?

    In 1999 the crash at the Passage du Gois created a 6 minute time gap - with Lance in the front group, and his rivals behind. So that explains the big time gap that year. And Eddy Mercx won classics and grand tours, but he also doped. He always seems to get a pass and universal admiration though.
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    where have all the sponsors gone...

    Well, the Ultra Life must mean that you are ultra-immune to prosecution, because Michelob seems to be sticking it out on Versus.
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    Armstrong pulls out of NZ multisport event

    Thanks for the laughs! Good stuff.
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    Dutch champ Clen bust 30 pg/ml - claims Mex beef?

    Is it possible that we are all consuming some small amounts of clen without knowing it? In China they will put poison into milk to increase profits, so why not elsewhere? This is the problem with allowing industry to "self-police." They are apt to put profit above all else. The clen positives...
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    "Anti-Aging" Investigation in New Jersey Star Ledger

    My Advantage See, this is where I have an advantage. My whole life I was not much of an athlete. I was a decent wrestler when young, and in high school my track career was cut short by a stupid knee injury from playing softball(though it was looking promising up until the injury). After high...
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    MCquaid wants more lenient penalties for lighter drugs

    Let's say they decide a 6-9 month ban for clen, for example. Will that make it more or less likely that a larger percentage of the peloton will load up on clen? My opinion is that lots of riders will decide that it is worth the risk and load up on a full spectrum of the lower penalty drugs...