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Actually there is. The British Olympic Committee had a policy that athletes who had a doping infraction could not represent GB at the Olympics. David Millar took this to CAS and got it quashed, because penalties that are higher than the WADA specified ones are not equitable.

You are interpreting this as if the numbers refer to 'during their career'. This is 12-17 year olds talking about their intention for within the next year. In that respect, these numbers are frighteningly high. At least to me :-(

If you read the link, it says that the reckless use of a firearm was in two other incidents.

Or more specifically, GAS6 is the gene and gas6 the protein (i.e. whether GAS is in capitals or not specifies whether it is the gene or the protein).

"X should happen for variable Y" is the prediction. You start with a hypothesis, make predictions from it, and then test the predictions (and thereby the hypothesis).

Oooh, you're a tough man (or woman). Second in the TDF, and gave indications that he could have been first if the team didn't tell him to back off ... And that's 'solid'? :confused:

Wasn't the problem that Porte was so 'high' on his performance at Ax-3-Domaines that he forgot to warm down properly? :D

How did that one work out?

The thing that struck me .... 2,257 likes. How much does it cost to get someone to setup a website like this and arrange for 2,257 likes? Not that much, I would have thought.

Fantastic interview. Well worth listening to. Thanks for posting the link.

This is not true. He is widely ridiculed by the French. I watched several of the TdFs that Armstrong 'won' on French TV. In the coverage of the final day of one of them France 2 (French TV channel) presented the results of a survey of the most-disliked sportsmen. Virenque figured widely, and in...

My French isn't 100% perfect, so I would be grateful for comments from native French speakers: The document from CCN translates "'anciens' coureurs" as "'older' riders" However, my understanding is that 'ancien' changes meaning depending on whether it is before or after the noun: "coureurs...

no probs :)

That's quite possible, but the way you juxtaposed your reply with the quote requesting a translation implied that this (that they warned them because they couldn't catch them) was written in the linked article, and it's not. That's all I was pointing out

Verbruggen doesn't say that they couldn't catch them on a substance but their values were enough for UCI to realize something was going on (at least in the short linked article. Instead, just before the bit about hoping that he could persuade the riders to stop doping, he says that he doesn't...