Recent content by MagniflexOlmo

As soon as we have a disk-brake-equipped rider crash into the back of another one, we're going to have a rider with his calf muscle sliced open and his time as a pro finished. (Think of an accident like Viviani had last year in Arrenberg). (And, yes, I have experienced this in a crit : Crash in...

Re: Mechanical doping: first rider caught Hope this wasn't already posted, but after I saw the crappy drawing from Gazetta I had the idea of searching around for linear motors. Anyhow, this guy (from 2010 already) has a really nice little motor where the "rotor" coils are on the fork and the...

... and I think the "he was just consultant" bit was covered quite a while back when accounts revealed that Sky has virtually no "employees". i.e. They're all either consultants, or (more probably) companies (based in tax havens).

Further to my last post, of course everyone jumps on best power values for riding up mountains, but would it not be reasonable to assume that Pinot's best values might be set at sea level riding a TT or somewhere else? My lad's best 10 to 30 min times were set in criteriums ... his TT's, so far...

The section "SRM Data Analysis" says the data is from training and competition. The "Results" section say the data was collected from 1727 trainings and 481 competitions. The clue to it being race data is in the 1st 4 hour value being so low.... I bought the article the other day since my lad...

Indeed. Unless at the time he thought he'd get a missed test if he didn't wait, (although that would seem naive). The "no needle" policy I find a bit baffling. With so many tests, riders need to keep a handle on their values, as well as doing genuine health checks, both of which involves...

There was some speculation earlier in the thread about high Hct, low Reticulocytes, and infusing, drawing off blood. I was wondering ... since it is well documented how riders in the past have built up a stock of fresh blood - two bags out, old bag in. Well, what if sometimes such a rider had to...

Thanks for the reply DirtyWorks Living in Germany, so sure, the China thing is not really a problem for us since we probably aren't going back there for a while, it's more the point of finding out too late about something, and we're talking about zero tolerance with Clenbuterol. Europe had a...

My 16 year old lad just got signed up to the general testing pool, which rather ramps up awareness. These sort of positive doping tests leave us feeling very unsure about the chances of an accidental positive due to food contamination. Indeed, we were on a family holiday in China early in the...