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I'm not entirely disappointed with his statement. I was pleasantly surprised to learn that he'd spoken to the USADA and CCES a year ago (apparently CCES didn't tell Cycling Canada this). He admitted he doped, didn't say it was only once, and gave as good an apology as he could. He didn't...

This is my feeling too. I'm a big Hesjedal fan but under no illusions about his past. I assumed that his story was pretty similar to the other riders that JV signed to Slipstream at the start of the team. I also assumed that Ryder didn't provide testimony in the Armstrong case because he didn't...

Good article (what I was able to understand through Google translate). Someone (Paul Kimmage maybe) needs to sit down with Thomas Frei and have a nice long talk.

Good article (what I was able to understand through Google translate). Someone (Paul Kimmage maybe) needs to sit down with Thomas Frei and have a nice long talk.

So unless Froome is continuously going back to Kenya and getting re-infected, his story of getting multiple treatments for bilharzia doesn't make much sense, correct?

There should not be a space between a word and punctuation that follows it. You only need to use one question mark. Try to keep the conversation polite. Patswana was trying to contribute useful information.

Before you criticize someone's grammar, you should learn how to use punctuation.

Is it common to need periodic re-treatment with praziquantel? Can the parasites go 'dormant' and then return? Or does a single treatment regimen completely rid the body of the parasites?

Probably not yet. That paper was published last month. It will take some time for a human method to be developed and cross-validated in the testing laboratories. The plasma detection window (max 6 hours) is too short to be useful for anti-doping. The urine detection window (max at 1.5 hours...

Why did Rabobank and Saunier Duval let them get away with it? Teams benefit when their riders win. They can either be complicit or willfully ignorant. The fallout for Rabobank has been enormous, but they were more than willing to look the other way while Rasmussen took every drug imaginable...

He's the only one going full ***. If you look around, you'll see a few other cyclists who have increased their performances after shedding a bunch of weight. Their performances haven't increased to the same extent but their bodies haven't been transformed to the same extent as Froome's...

Have you not heard of Ryder Hesjedal? He is British Columbian.

Canadians will know. ;)

You mean a gap-toothed female cyclist/speed skater with cycles of depression who was quick to defend Michael Barry? ;)

It wasn't just Hamilton. There were plenty of people on Rock Racing who had been Fuentes' customers.