Recent content by Joe in LA

At the end of the article, the author assumes that the clen could not have come through an autologous blood transfusion because, he asserts, autologous blood transfusions are detectible and would have been caught. Seems like that is a bad underlying assumption.

Doesn't freezing invalidate the sample? I thought Hamilton kept his gold medal because the "B" sample was frozen. Is it different if its blood v. urine?

I wasn't suggesting it is impossible that some farmer somewhere was acting impropertly, but to suggest that something that happened in 1992 makes it likely in 2010 is silly.

An image taken seconds before Alberto took that unfortunate bite of his shoe and got plasticizers in his blood.

That's 18 years ago. Unless he was eating some incredibly old beef, it doesn't have any reasonable connection to 2010.

There is no minimum. The UCI said that the lab, to be certified, need only detect clen at a higher concentration than the concentration detected. That does not mean it is okay to have less in your body. What it means is "oops, Cologne's testing is too sensitive" and detected clen at a level...

Am I reading this correctly that UCI thinks further inquiry is needed becuase the lab was able to detect the substance as a lower concentration than the lab is required to be able to detect? So the lab is too good at what it does?

If Lim is implicated, what about Garmin? He's only been with RadioShack for one season. He spent several years at Garmin.

Assuming the bond was equal to your annual salary, you still have a practical problem. Bonds (like bail bonds) are typically 10% of their face and may require security. If you are a young rider earning $30,000 per year, forking over $3,000 is going to be pretty painful, and you probably don't...

Must remember not to use the Flowbee with my helmet on.