Recent content by BiomechanicsProfessor

I'm not sure why you do that I am not critically discussing dopers and suspected dopers. I am looking with a very skeptical eye at the evidence needed for an adverse analytical finding, and seeing that the innocent athlete has essentially no defense. The expert panel can do whatever they want...

I'm not sure how you would demonstrate that someone is not doping. For example, now that I have been on the inside of the biological passport, the flattest (i.e. no variability, and therefore the least likely to get an adverse finding) was Alexander Vinokourov's. I did not spend time with Robert...

I'm going to have to leave shortly. The report actually goes on a little bit more: Further to this, Mr. Scott argues that the elevated Hb could be due to a plasma volume reduction 5-7 days after a high exercise load (Miller et al. 2019). According to Mr. Scott, the Rider raced (and won) on 12...

The expert panel set the variability to zero- which is as ridiculous as it sounds. We, in our presentation and in our responses to the expert panel, used the variability from the biological passport without increasing it (as should be done to account for individual differences in response to...

Statistical mistakes. For sample 2, the Hb value for the rider was 16.8. For the biological passport, the predicted mean was 14.75, plus or minus 1.75. This means the limits were between 13.00 and 16.50. The rider's Hb was outside this limit. The expert panel agreed that the rider had spent...

Yes, WADA considers them experts. However, when you look at their credentials it is not nearly as clear. Yes, they all seem to make regular appearances in very questionable cases. Almost as if having them review the data increases the chances of an adverse finding. This is a lie. Sample 6 was...

If he had appealed to the CAS, he wouldn't be able to ride, so he made the difficult decision to carry on his career rather than appeal. It takes a lot of time and money to carry everything through to the CAS (which is another reason the process is so biased against the rider), and he had to...

Okay, now that the UCI decided to publish some creative fiction in CyclingNews, I feel compelled to respond. I was one of the scientists on Stannard's defense team, so I can tell you more about the charges and lack of evidence that went into the decision. There is a good reasona why Bahrain...