Recent content by Slava101

Mexico is a big route for steroids to get into the US, you also have Anti aging clinics in America which will for a hefty fee prescribe you almost any of the steroids you want. Online pharmacies shipping from countries that don't have tight regulation etc. For example it is meant to be very...

Listened to the whole thing and I reckon its probably worth a listen. While I always find Victor Conte entertaining he is a bit like the used car salesman of the steroids world, so I take it all with a grain of salt. Though he does appear to know his stuff. What I found the most interesting...

A lot of litigation is a question of moral soundness vs the external form of an agreement. The external form of the contract was indeed valid but that was never the SCA's argument. Lance needed to be declared the winner by the relevant organisations. The SCA were always going to struggle with...

Alex Dowsett just made a huge back track on 5Live in the UK. He said if he met him in person he wouldn't be able to shake his hand. He said his comments where in regards to Livestrong's work.

Had a quick look on PubMed for academic papers that discuss HGH and athletic performance, and it seems that there is firstly a lot less research into HGH in relation to athletic performance than say into EPO or Blood Doping. And secondly a number of relevantly recent papers say more research...

I have seen a couple of papers suggesting that Gene doping might not be as undetectable as many people appear to think Genetic Doping with erythropoietin cDNA in primate muscle is detectable- 2004- Francoise Lasne, Laurent Martin, Jacques de Ceaurriz,Thibaut Larcher,Philippe Moullier, and...

Women are generally less well represented in most sports, so it would be surprising for it to be much different than in Cycling. Though the number of women into cycling seems to be increasing steadily. The lack of a solid professional scene for women's cycling definitively must hurt the cause...

Huge and growing middle class with disposable income, who they hope they can sell the sport of cycling too. Plus the Chinese government is keen to have prestigious events held in their country and I'm sure this makes easier from an organisational standpoint.

I'd also rather have another Tour take it's place but I can't see that happening. Sports are desperate to tap into growth markets with China being one of the most attractive markets to target. The UCI won't drop the Tour of Beijing while they perceive China as potential area for massive growth...

It seems a bit worrying. I know they want to make the report very polished and hard to reject, but for an Organisation that has a decent number of employee's I would hope they could get the report done within the time limits they set for themselves. I'm not one to think this a sign that...

Doesn't seem that much of a shocking headline to me. HGH was notoriously difficult to detect until very recently and even now the tests can only go back a few weeks I believe. If HGH use was the difference between a chance of playing Major League rather than being a Minor league ball player...

There have been accusations of EPO use within in top level football. I remember it being mentioned in a medical paper about preventing blood doping and EPO use within Sport. In 2000 the Italian Soccer Federation ran a campaign called 'lo non rischio la salute!', English translation...

Got to be Vino who is one of the more entertaining riders in the pro peloton.

I'd be happy to sign

Apparently Dave Brailsford cares too. “As it currently exists,” he explains, “you’ve got Laura Trott, Jo Rowsell and Dani King, then you’ve got three or four very good Welsh riders, including Lucy Garner, and that’s where there is something to be done.There’s a development model, and we’ve...