Recent content by bommels

The Drink Nah, he's just looking how much of The Drink he's got left: http://goo.gl/UzKXN0 (daily mail alert)

Thank you Sir, for this eloquent, well-reasoned and friendly reply. Bravo!

Agreed. From what I have read about Leinders, he is no 'doping doctor' in the sense that he has a 'programme' riders could subscribe to, like the Ferraris, and Fuenteses of this world. As far as I understood, Rabobank has/had a no doping policy, however their riders reverted to doctors...

Watching the stage to Morzine in 2003 on the col de la Ramaz made a huge impact on me. Virenque won that day, but to see the boys in blue putting everybody in the red was just surreal, and made me realise something was not right. My interest in pro racing declined ever since.

Let's remind ourselves that Contador tested positive for Clenbuterol first. Since the quantities of the banned substance were minute, the (one of the many) official stance(s) was to use science to get a better understanding of how the Clenbuterol got into his system. That opened the possibility...

Related news: a Belgian football player, playing for a Dutch team, has been suspended for 2 years after he tested positive for steroids (stanazolol). He is a 22 year old defender, playing for a not very highly regarded club. So apparently it is not only the Portugese who dope - or get...

You mean pouring a Tours worth of wee in a big jar and take a scoop? To me that seems an excellent methodology to validate a new test protocol! Because that was what they were doing at the lab at the time, wasn't it? Happy to help flogging this dead horse :-) Bart

Shortly after the olympics I read in a paper (so it must be true) that Mrs Fuentes made a remark that without her husband, the medal table would have looked quite differently, and not necessarily better for Spain.

Of course it gets cleaner all the time. If your transfusion kit or blood bags are not clean you'll be in big trouble!

Cheers for the report, glad to see you enjoyed it! Told you so :D (sorry, couldn't resist)

They seem to resemble the Sachs Powerlink types. For those, squeezing the side plates towards each other before trying to undo the two parts made the 'unlinking' a very easy operation. Hope this helps

Good for you going for the sportive PR! Did it years ago but still remember not being able to type for two days after. But what an experience! The things I was really pleased with were my steel frame with a long wheelbase, nicely curved steel fork, and 30mm tyres. The 48t chainring allowed...

...and the trouble the Spanish authorities had with his case also is that doping was (at the time) not illegal in that country. Same goes for Puerto: they had to try to accuse Fuentes of 'irregularities in blood handling' or 'endangering patients health' in order to get him into the courts in...

So am I right in thinking that most people over here seem to hate Ricco, but like Hamilton? How very odd, IMHO. Ricco only got caught once, and did not make up lame excuses about his twin, a possible operation, naturally odd blood values and/or his dog. Instead he was quite frank in admitting...

The next generation of performance boosters is around the corner. Bue does this actually count as a PED? In any case, a urine-based test is easily devised, methinks. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8186947.stm Bart