Recent content by Kajsen

Re: I concur. However, I do not think my summary amounts to a breach of code of conduct; I say it like Sundby and NSF did: It was a mere issue of uncertainty regarding the administration (of my summary/asthma medicine).

Yes, the reactions to Drange were indeed quite similar to the Armstrong case. That was actually pointed out by TV2's commentator, to his credit: http://www.tv2.no/2014/01/16/sport/sotsji/ol/vintersport/5231214#.VE4Ob_l5Nlw (in Norwegian). Some of Drange's points included that athletes are...

I truly believe this is one (there are a couple more) of areas where the system collapses. The doctor is the authoritative man (woman). We perceive of the doctor as an honest professional (often rightly, sometimes wrongly). Team doctors are included in that category. As are FIS's own medical or...

Re: Re: My friend and fellow researcher works with the lady who performed the exercise-induced asthma study which the Norwegian Ski Federation (NSF) holds as "scientific evidence" of asthma medicine not having any performance-enhancing effect on healthy athletes. Today, during lunch, they...

I was wondering why, after the second leg of the Swedish documentary last spring, things have been so quiet. After all, we know that the Swedes (through the TV channel SVT) and the Norwegian media (newspaper VG) have acces to around 5000 blood values from 2001 to 2007. VG has only reported two...

Thanks for the input, python! I didn't know that all tests before '97 were done after races. The dehydration issue is continuously used as an explanation/defense of high single tests in this period, notably Dæhlies 17.5 from Thunder Bay. Again, I do not about how severe any such dehydration...

Very interesting. And such an argument would mesh with the huge organizational changes in Norwegian XC skiing in 1998-1999. If one buys the argument that there were systematic or semi-systematic doping in Norway at the time, the medical staff would surely have to be involved. But the entire...

Just an afterthought to the above: If you ask experts (outside of Norway), they will certainly say that, based on the cases in 1998-1999, it is overwhelmingly likely that Norwegian skiers (two, at least, but likely others as well) manipulated their blood in that season. Of course...

Yes, as you said, Sorkmo chose to report the lowest of the three values. There's a lot to that whole story - and the 1998-1999 seson, it seems. I have sifted through quite a few news pieces from that season (some are available electronically, some aren't). You rightly point to the two immediate...

I know I lag behind most of you guys who have written about this for years and through 235 pages. But I spend half of my day wondering about these things now, to the detriment of my research. Sometimes one needs a bit of luck, thoug. Hamilton provided that for cycling. When it comes to Norway's...

Thanks, it makes sense, I'll forget about that then. Quite interesting to see the still pictures of the hand-written numbers, though. About half of them would have been refused to start in our age.

A smal point: Do anyone have access to the starting lists for the World Cup race in Lahti 18-19 January 1997? The reason I ask is that in the Swedish documentary, Part 1, they show several glimpses of the lists. Pre-race blood values (which are generally sky-high) are visible, but names are...

I'm of no use to this forum if I don't have anything new to add, so I'll try to stick with that principle. I just wanted to calculate some numbers (they don't say too much but we/I need them considering the larger picture). As you know, Norways Federation and Sweden's Fed. have relaesed some...

Thanks, python, I've read all your previous posts with great interest, and I've learned a lot. I'll pace myself, hehe, just needed to get a couple of new things off my chest. Thanks for the altitude explanation, by the way. I've read a couple of things now, and it seems that you are in the...

Just for the sake of honesty, I strongly believe that most Norwegian top skiers (and even tmost of the "mediocre" ones in international races) were using EPO in the 1990s and beyond. And I strongly believe that these same skiers were attempting to mask their EPO use when that became possible...