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2009 tour?

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yo. sure this has been discussed, but i havent been around for a while. What's the deal with the 2009 tour? No-one busted. What's the deal, cleaned up? What ere they all doing now? Stille CERA?
 
Autologous blood doping, Hematide, HGH. Microdosing of other products, and hiding from testers during "peak" doping hours. Potential use of Repoxygen and stem-cell gene doping at the highest, and most well funded level.

That, and anti-doping controls are not very effective; error heavily on the side of the doper.

Even the biological passport isn't very effective of a deterrent to most dopers.

Yes, the sport is probably cleaner than in about 2002-2004 or so, when probably most of the top 50 finishers in major races were later tied to doping one way or another. But clean? No.
 
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Alpe d'Huez said:
Autologous blood doping, Hematide, HGH. Microdosing of other products, and hiding from testers during "peak" doping hours. Potential use of Repoxygen and stem-cell gene doping at the highest, and most well funded level.

That, and anti-doping controls are not very effective; error heavily on the side of the doper.

Even the biological passport isn't very effective of a deterrent to most dopers.

Yes, the sport is probably cleaner than in about 2002-2004 or so, when probably most of the top 50 finishers in major races were later tied to doping one way or another. But clean? No.

+Aicar, insulin
 
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ahh cheers. sounds to me like doping is coming very much a science and probably astronomically expensive (even more than it was).