According to their website, so far in 2012 USADA have carried out 14 tests in Tennis (all out of competition).
That compares with cycling 544, Swimming 544, Track and Field 1564, Paralympic Volleyball 16, Curling 15 and Cheerleading 10!
A real interesting website is http://www.alltime-athletics.com.
Take the women's shot as an example, the longest effort in the last 10 years (ignoring Ostapchuk) comes in at 185th place around 1.4m off the world record!
Seb Coe's 800m record set 31 years ago has only been beaten by two...
I really don't think it's always that simple. Take last years World TT, Cancellara was clearly racing for first taking all sorts of risks at the end and hence he ended up behind Wiggins, pretty sure if he'd raced to beat Wiggins he would have done.
Now, if Tony Martin gets popped (I'm not...
I'd strongly anybody interested in this case to read Speed Trap by Charlie Francis, Johnson's coach.
Pretty frank admission of what Johnson and other athletes were up to and his real gripe was that everybody else was doing it and not getting caught.
It's 3 missed tests in 18 months so guessing PR 2010 has just fallen off the list so he's free to mention it with no impact
Whilst a missed test isn't as bad as a failed test its not good to miss them guilty or not its still fuel for the fire
"Armstrong and his team of seasoned PR experts didn’t fall for the ratings trap. Instead they responded with the initial tweet, then followed it with another missive linking to a focused response website: http://www.facts4lance.com "
Have never been a big fan of Millar and found him a bit of a sanctimonious little .....
However, he is partly responsible for one of my all time comedy cycling moments when he won that sword in Toledo, talk about a massive tool!
Ashenden did describe the possibility of spiking in his 2009 NYVelocity interview with Andy Shen:
http://nyvelocity.com/content/features/2009/spiking-armstrongs-99-samples