Best excuse or denial for doping!

[Izzyeviel]

I keep thinking about the commentators during the La Tour de France femme avec swift who kept telling us 'The reason Annimiek is so good is because she's old and has been riding her bike in training for years'

 

[Red Rick]

Tennis has a lot of good ones, but one of them is surprisingly honest

Spoiler

 

[Sciatic]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2023/04/22/college-baseball-velocity/

To me, this is a real doozy: more and more young (college age) baseball pitchers can throw 100 mph fastballs. That increase in the number of pitchers doing that (in the major leagues too) is shady enough, but one of the reasons offered by one the teams in this article is . . They’ve getting a better night’s sleep!

Straight out of the Team Sky marginal gains playbook.
Ha.

 

[Tim Cahill]

'Farming practices in Normandy' - not troubling the top spots but a great effort all the same, add it to the wall of fame.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1665757658584842248

 

[pastronef]

well, Toon Aerts tested positive for Letrozole after racing in Flamaville. Bossuyt raced in Flamaville the week she tested positive

 

[Sciatic]

'Farming practices in Normandy' - not troubling the top spots but a great effort all the same, add it to the wall of fame.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1665757658584842248

Of course, it’s irrelevant until we know where their food came from? If they both ate at local restaurants and bought food at local stores then one can make the supposition that is tainted food (which I would not be likely to believe anyways).

 

[awavey]

Of course, it’s irrelevant until we know where their food came from? If they both ate at local restaurants and bought food at local stores then one can make the supposition that is tainted food (which I would not be likely to believe anyways).

which then always comes back to how come none of the other riders who were tested and must have eaten at the same local restaurants or bought the same food at the same local stores, because theyre never going to be that many restaurants or stores to pick from, didnt get hit ?

or the fact stage 3 of the Tour of Normandy started 170km away from Flamanville so why would they have even stayed anywhere near the place overnight.

but then I have trouble imagining beef was on the menu anyways, or that pro cyclists even touch dairy products.

 

[ZamlinusYoutubeious]

I have said it before and will say it again..altitude camp/training is a good excuse

 

[pastronef]

I have said it before and will say it again..altitude camp/training is a good excuse

excuse for testing positive?
excuse to dope?
every rider and its dog goes to altitude camp. some riders are winners, others aren't.
athletes are free to train where they want. it's the job of the autorities to check them and go after them

 

[Red Rick]

Fabio Fognini missing a test because he just ditched his whereabouts to go to the CL finale is pretty funny

 

[ZamlinusYoutubeious]

excuse for testing positive?
excuse to dope?
every rider and its dog goes to altitude camp. some riders are winners, others aren't.
athletes are free to train where they want. it's the job of the autorities to check them and go after them

Best excuse..it was the best excuse esp when dr. car manufacturer was still stationed in teide.(i dont know whether he is still there or not) that was before every riders and its dog goes altitude camping.

 

[pastronef]

Best excuse..it was the best excuse esp when dr. car manufacturer was still stationed in teide.(i dont know whether he is still there or not) that was before every riders and its dog goes altitude camping.

maybe back then when, like Rasmussen, we didn't know where riders were.
now teams go, plan the stays there, we even know when they go there, they get tested there, their ADAMs whereabouts are updated. (Siutsou, when he published the list if his tests, was tested in La Orotava, north of the Teide)

 

[Aimar16]

A ridiculous denial from the germans, who are masters of doping in football, with many stolen World Cup titles since 1954

Vuskovic case calls EPO analysis system into question

HSV player Mario Vuskovic has not been allowed to play since November 2022. He was banned because of a positive doping result. But it's not just Vuskovic, the doping analysis system is now under scrutiny, says journalist Thomas Kistner.

The news from the Hamburg public prosecutor's office must have been a relief for Mario Vuskovic, believes Thomas Kistner of the Süddeutsche Zeitung: the investigations have been dropped. No evidence of the procurement of doping substances could be found in the player's apartment, on his cell phones, computers or in his account transactions. Doping, "you don't do that as a 21-year-old professional football player all by yourself, without any professional guidance and without access to a procurement system," Kistner believes. In addition, Vuskovic had undergone cross-examination and a lie detector test.

Anti-Doping - Fall Vuskovic stellt EPO-Analysesystem in Frage

HSV-Spieler Mario Vuskovic wurde wegen eines positiven Doping-Befundes gesperrt. Doch nicht nur Vuskovic, auch die Doping-Analyse steht nun auf dem Prüfstand.

www.deutschlandfunk.de

They found nothing in his apartment or on his phone to indicate doping, so he is innocent... How is it possible for a professional football player to use EPO when playing in a professional football team that has a full medical department with many doctors?

 

[Rob5091]

"I just stopped dancing" is something,that even though not attributed to somone caught doping, deserves it's own little niche in cycling annals. Toms Skujins explains -
https://cyclinguptodate.com/cycling...plains-his-sudden-rise-to-the-top-at-classics

Skujins was rarely firing off all cylinders in the spring, however this year everything seems to have clicked. The reason is as bizzare as you'd expect from the eccentric Latvian. "I stopped dancing in my off season," he explains. "Folk dancing is very big in Latvia. We love dancing and singing. But I sacrificed that to have more energy for training.

 

[BullsFan22]

A ridiculous denial from the germans, who are masters of doping in football, with many stolen World Cup titles since 1954

Anti-Doping - Fall Vuskovic stellt EPO-Analysesystem in Frage

HSV-Spieler Mario Vuskovic wurde wegen eines positiven Doping-Befundes gesperrt. Doch nicht nur Vuskovic, auch die Doping-Analyse steht nun auf dem Prüfstand.

www.deutschlandfunk.de

They found nothing in his apartment or on his phone to indicate doping, so he is innocent... How is it possible for a professional football player to use EPO when playing in a professional football team that has a full medical department with many doctors?

Vušković isn’t German. But yes, doping in German football, both in the Bundesliga and national team is quite prevalent.

 

[Panda Claws]

I feel like 'talent' is the new code word this season. It's been popping up a lot lately.

 

[Tim Cahill]

AG2R flying reason has been leaked by Oliver here

https://twitter.com/x/status/1775104425872560347

“I feel great since I stopped eating celery”

 

[Libertine Seguros]

AG2R flying reason has been leaked by Oliver here

https://twitter.com/x/status/1775104425872560347

“I feel great since I stopped eating celery”

That's BS. If avoiding celery was all it took to get great results, I would have the palmarès of an all time great.

 

[Froome]

The beef excuse.

 

[repre]

The beef excuse.

NAh, the best excuse is from ukrainian tennis player Dayana Yastremska, who said she ate polluted cumshot. This is peak doping excuse

 

[Sciatic]

NAh, the best excuse is from ukrainian tennis player Dayana Yastremska, who said she ate polluted cumshot. This is peak doping excuse

 

[Rob5091]

Well we have a "contaminated kitchen" now to explain mass doping.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2...-golds-after-testing-positive-for-banned-drug

 

[Sciatic]

Well we have a "contaminated kitchen" now to explain mass doping.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2...-golds-after-testing-positive-for-banned-drug

Wow, this one is not even that funny because WADA’s handling is bat-sh*t crazy and obviously politically or image protection motivated. Can you imagine the blowback from China and elsewhere if they banned 23 athletes en mass before the Olympics?

This could be a great strategy for large teams. If all athletes dope with the same product you just have a blanket excuse ready (common dining, AC system, whatever) and then if the drugs are detected the IOC or WADA have to deal with a too-big-to-fail problem.

 

[Rob5091]

Wow, this one is not even that funny because WADA’s handling is bat-sh*t crazy and obviously politically or image protection motivated. Can you imagine the blowback from China and elsewhere if they banned 23 athletes en mass before the Olympics?

This could be a great strategy for large teams. If all athletes dope with the same product you just have a blanket excuse ready (common dining, AC system, whatever) and then if the drugs are detected the IOC or WADA have to deal with a too-big-to-fail problem.

Too big to bust? Yep, welcome to the "Enhanced Games"!

 

[Tim Cahill]

Corruption on an industrial scale, hard to imagine anything worse than some of the stuff Hein Verbruggen pulled back in the day, but this might even beat it, they even have the nerve to then accuse Travis Tygart of libelling them.