Recent content by Cramps

Re: Doctor interviewed here says salbutamol would be checked routinely. https://cyclingtips.com/2017/12/certainly-doesnt-look-good-doctor-speaks-froome-case/ "That showing up ten years into a professional career after 100 tests or more is [unusual]. This is one of the substances that is...

Contador and Landa is dancer and anti-dancer

Listened to Cope's evidence to the Select Committee on iplayer. Thought I would share what I took to be highlights. It was nice to see MPs of all stripes digging into a story that didn't add up. (Chair begins by noting that the ill Dr Freeman refused video link.) The story was, as Cope would...

Lord Coe still running away from questions over his integrity http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sportsnews/article-3649561/Lord-Coe-running-away-questions-integrity-Panorama-exposes-extent-IAAF-chief-s-relations-Diack.html Aggressively written, but you can feel how hard it is going to be to...

BBC quotes Coe: "Clearly it wasn't a decision made about reputation because, since 2001, they've been the global partner to the Tour de France and renewed at a moment when cycling was in its worst position around doping." Interesting... If Coe thinks Nestle is lying, and is not pulling out...

Re: BBC and others: Lord Coe responded strongly, simply saying he was "angered and dismayed by today's kids' athletics announcement. "We will not accept it. It's the kids who will suffer." OF COURSE. IT'S THE CHILDREN WHO ARE SUFFERING. (A) As far as Nestle's are concerned, CHILDREN are...

Re: dope Very interesting and brings my confusion to a head. An athlete from a country with a national anti-doping authority has to have the clearance of that authority to compete, correct? The national ADA can suspend an athlete. So what happens for countries like Kenya without a national...

North Korea making impressive gains in weightlighting. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/weightlifting/34768507 The reason? According to the BBC report above:

Re: "The five-person inspection team, led by renowned anti-doping expert Rune Andersen, has an extraordinary amount of experience...." A quick search didn't find much in the way of statements or actions taken by Rune Andersen, does he have a reputation of any sort?

Re: Re: Right, WADA sensibly uses criteria other than performance enhancement. This avoid endless arguments along the lines of whether kale and blueberries are "performance enhancing", or "drugs". Anywho...So why aren't hypothyroid drugs banned? They certainly meet the harmful criteria. And...

Re: Re: But this tautology can't be a basis for illegal doping, for one thing, it would make placebo effects illegal.

Re: BE fair now to the Brit press. An athlete like Radcliffe they'll worship and eventually mercilessly destroy. A politician like Coe they're happy to go after. Besides (or maybe because) of Jon Snow, there's a nice assortment of papers of all persuasions coming after Coe Daily mail...

The Lausanne lab and laboratory director come out stinking, although the report admits it cannot at present accuse them of corruption, but finds their stories not credible. Recall though that it was a director from the Lausanne lab that came out in support of Radcliffe's off-scores.

Re: Here Cram sounds sophisticated and knowledgable about what is going on within athletics. So his hyperbole about good clean brits and Bolt saving the sport etc can't be blamed on innocence. In any case, thanks it was an interesting link, e.g., even Cram concedes that Coe is not seen as a...

Although to be fair, Coe, unlike Cookson, did not run on an anti-corruption platform. Coe actually something more like a pro-corruption platform to save "his" sport from pseudo-scientists like Parisotto and Ashendon, scurrilous accusations from the media, blame cast on obvious innocents like...