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Slowest TdF doping rider I nominate Leonardo Piepoli who was busted for CERA - he is a diminutive mountain climber extraordinare, but not so speedy in the flats. He was Lanterne Rouge of the 2005 Tour de France for the first 3 consecutive stages.

Backstory The other interesting aspect of this is that it shows that WADA tracks a number of things it doesn't talk about in public - yet. So it may have a fairly extensive list of athletes who they know are doping in some form, but aren't able to pin down precisely yet. It also shows they...

Bzzzt, Student, every sample collected would have gone into the same type of plastic cup. And all the riders would have been drinking from similar bidons.

Prohibited list Here's the WADA prohibited list: http://www.wada-ama.org/en/News-Center/Articles/WADA-2011-Prohibited-List-Now-Published/ Exogenous anabolic steroids, including testosterone, are forbidden, without regard to gender. They can't forbid endogenous anabolic steroids.

WADA prohibited list, effective January 2010: "Intravenous infusions are prohibited except for those legitimately received in the course of hospital admissions or clinical investigations." Ironman is not an Olympic/WADA sport. (Don't get me started on pro major league US sports, either...).

WADA does ban IV use: http://adisonline.com/sportsmedicine/Abstract/2010/40040/Intravenous_versus_Oral_Rehydration_in_Athletes.4.aspx though I've never heard of an athlete suspended for it yet. I'd think the sanctions for evidence of blood doping would and should be considerably harsher...

How about EPO use being linked to 18+ deaths of young pro cyclists in their prime? That's enough for me. http://www.nytimes.com/1991/05/19/us/stamina-building-drug-linked-to-athletes-deaths.html?pagewanted=all

Plastic types? Same for all riders: Plastic cups used for urine collection, bidons. Therefore traces of those types would not be a differential test indicative of an individual doping, of course. My question (that I don't know the answer to) is whether the bags used to store blood and...

At this point I'm so fed up with doping in pro cycling that I'd like to see them just publicly post the lab results on the Internet the same day they run them along with the names and then let justice proceed from there. Seems the fairest way. OK, maybe not the same day because then DSs would...

What's the most likely? Personally, I think the most likely scenario we are looking at right now is a) blood doping with old blood that had clenbuterol in it; or b) using some Nutritional Supplement X or Dope Y (possibly obtained from black market sources) that was contaminated with...

You're talking about someone (Contador) who dropped out of school at age 16, remember? He's going to put his trust in someone else to tell him exactly what to take every day, off-season and on. It doesn't have to make any sense to him. His advisors may believe some odd things about...

Clenbuterol in meat If someone ate beef tenderloin that had a high enough concentration to render a blood clenbuterol level that is SIMILAR to oral ingestion of clenbuterol - then presumably the liver of that cow would have high enough levels to make a person ill from eating it. If there was...

Clenbuterol toxicity People can express doubts all they want when some reporter calls them. However, the vast majority of reported cases of human clenbuterol toxicity from eating meat have been a result of eating liver: http://tinyurl.com/32l8qps If the safety of the Spanish beef...

Clenbuterol levels It seems that the levels of clenbuterol measured in Contador's and Fuyu Li's blood are precisely the levels seen in oral ingestion of clenbuterol, so they're not all that infinitesimal as everyone is saying: http://tinyurl.com/247uacg Furthermore, clenbuterol is not a...

Ah, thank you for clarification on the Fuyu Li situation. I looked up Chinese Cycling Association info for a recent status update but was unable to find anything online that was translatable. Here's a good "compare and contrast" on the Contador and Fuyu Li incidents...