Recent content by unclem0nty

Re: Re: Indeed. Is "chef" even a job title? Looks very much as if it should have been "Dr". I agree it doesn't make much sense to people in here. However this whole exercise is pitched squarely at blinding the general public with a bit of science, and then following this up with the...

Seems weird to me that this vital document - as posited above, the holy grail that will Save the Soul of Cycling - apparently disappeared off the face of the earth for 8 years until Michelle Cound's tireless detective work uncovered it... and then she doesn't unearth just one copy of it, but two...

Pretty snazzy photocopier that transforms selected chunks of text into bold. It just IS dodgy, no doubt about it.

Bold formatting fail. Why would there be two *almost* identical versions of this "fax"? Ropey as fvck.

Is Wenger trolling himself? The quotes in that Guardian article sound like he's talking about an obviously doped player he wants to see banned. I almost feel sorry for Sanchez. He already looks like the doperiest doper in the Premier League and now his own manager is more or less hanging a...

Given that researchers have linked steroid abuse with (kidney-destroying) nephrotic syndrome, and given that steroids have a far greater performance-enhancing potential than creatine, this all sounds like a big fat red herring to me. The hoary old 'legal supplements' defence.

Had a hollow laugh reading the BBC's Lomu obituary: I think we all know how Lomu's more recent predecessors on that list went about shifting them paradigms. The manner in which his own abilities are described is hardly helpful either.

Transplanted kidneys don't generally last more than 10 or 15 years. Lomu's replacement kidney just conked out in the usual fashion - he was on the waiting list for another.

Plenty of research linking steroid use with the 'rare kidney disorder nephrotic syndrome' that killed Lomu. http://www.drugfreesport.com/newsroom/insight.asp?VolID=49&TopicID=4

The increasing incidence of heart attacks among pro players has raised a few red flags, but I sense there'll sadly have to be a few more fatalities - or an episode involving a huge name - before the sporting public wakes up and starts demanding an explanation. It's been noticeable that most...

To the member who implied that the point I made in my previous post had been done to death, here's why I made it. Even many Clinic regulars still seem reluctant to accept that systematic, top-end doping is the norm at the highest level of football. As the first answer to the post quoted above...

Naive at best to believe that professionals in a "skilful" sport like football have no incentive to dope. Technical skill has never been the dominant prerequisite for a career in professional football. Glenn Hoddle, one of the most technically proficient English footballers of all time, used...

Tottenham's manager seems fluent in the language of blood manipulation. Impossible to imagine that if Premiership clubs are doing this kind of convoluted plasma therapy they're not also engaged in far more basic related methods of performance enhancement (transfusions, EPO etc).

The Guardian (like all UK papers) is embarrassing in its proud & confident assertions of Murray's noble purity (see also Wiggins, Mo Farah etc). Nonethless there does seem to be a major shift in press attitudes, and as the Guardian's tennis bloke says that's down to the Armstrong/Oprah...

The tide does seem to be turning. Here's the Guardian's take on Djokovic's uncomfortable press conference: http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2013/jan/22/australian-open-2013-djokovic-berdych Elsewhere the same paper's tennis correspondent says...