Bio Passport Workin' Great

[BroDeal]

Massimo Giunti. EPO 35 years old. No professional wins.

Way to catch those big fish.

 

[Anonymous]

I thought the same thing. This continues the narrative that its only the donkeys who are the bad seeds.

 

[blackcat]

the UCI are on watch. Well done. There should only be a few more apples in the bad apples peloton.

 

[Anonymous]

Giunti was one of the minority who still use PEDs.

 

[rhubroma]

Another lamb sacrificed at the altar of hypocrisy.

 

[issoisso]

*cue Gianni Savio pretending he had no idea*

 

[BikeCentric]

*cue Gianni Savio pretending he had no idea*

What is EPO? I have never heard of such a thing. Why would a cyclist take drugs? One needs to be healthy for this sport.

 

[luckyboy]

Do the 'nobody' riders barely get tested at all then? Because plain old EPO doesn't sound the smartest choice.

 

[Mellow Velo]

35 seems to be the age that your Swiss passport expires and you are offered up to the sacrifical gods of WADA.
You need a special passport, which extra pages, when you are over this hill.

 

[the big ring]

What really smarts is the constant barrage of claims that ...

The UCI said in a statement to day that Giunti's non-negative control had been carried out in response to irregularities detected under the biological passport programme.

I mean come on. Seriously!? Is there ANYONE who believes this complete and utter spin!?

I DARE UCI to do a demo of slides that show the irregularities, plotted on a graph, with a timeline from analysis, anomaly detection and then targeted testing.

Aaaand then release all the passport results. Don't even have to put names against them.

Double dog dare ya.

*spit*

Biggest political BS spin machine in existence.

 

[Ninety5rpm]

Another lamb sacrificed at the altar of hypocrisy.

Lot of great comments in this thread so far, but after careful consideration, and it wasn't easy to decide, I think this one wins.

 

[Oldman]

Another lamb sacrificed at the altar of hypocrisy.

No joke. Or: it's becoming a bad joke. Almost like the UCI takes a guy aside and makes him "an offer he can't refuse" to take one for the team. Does he have any baggage, politically?

 

[BroDeal]

What really smarts is the constant barrage of claims that ...

I mean come on. Seriously!? Is there ANYONE who believes this complete and utter spin!?

I DARE UCI to do a demo of slides that show the irregularities, plotted on a graph, with a timeline from analysis, anomaly detection and then targeted testing.

The UCI is attributing every positive to the passport. They cannot even keep track of their lies. The classic moment came last year when rumors of Di Luca having passport problems surfaced. The UCI publicly denied it. About two weeks later Di Luca's positive from the Giro was revealed. The UCI then claimed he was caught by the passport. In fact he was caught by regular testing at the Giro that would have taken place before the passport.

Maybe McQuaid is drunk all the time and cannot remember what he said the week before.

 

[IntheMidwest]

The UCI is attributing every positive to the passport. They cannot even keep track of their lies. The classic moment came last year when rumors of Di Luca having passport problems surfaced. The UCI publicly denied it. About two weeks later Di Luca's positive from the Giro was revealed. The UCI then claimed he was caught by the passport. In fact he was caught by regular testing at the Giro that would have taken place before the passport.

Maybe McQuaid is drunk all the time and cannot remember what he said the week before.

And Menchov sat on DiLuca's wheel on every mountain stage whilst breathing though his nose - If anything was blatantly obvious it was that! UCI's a joke.

 

[craig1985]

The UCI is attributing every positive to the passport. They cannot even keep track of their lies. The classic moment came last year when rumors of Di Luca having passport problems surfaced. The UCI publicly denied it. About two weeks later Di Luca's positive from the Giro was revealed. The UCI then claimed he was caught by the passport. In fact he was caught by regular testing at the Giro that would have taken place before the passport.

Maybe McQuaid is drunk all the time and cannot remember what he said the week before.

Well he is Irish. Maybe he should lay off the Guinness.

 

[Ferminal]

Does the point that the biopassport "reduces the extent to which someone can dope" really hold anymore?

No doubt a lot of professional cyclists would have "irregularities" in their passport... surely the top riders aren't any less "irregular" than these big fish they've been catching?

 

[Alpe d'Huez]

Chief Pat catches another one, keeping our world safe from cheaters.

 

[Hugh Januss]

Does the point that the biopassport "reduces the extent to which someone can dope" really hold anymore?

No doubt a lot of professional cyclists would have "irregularities" in their passport... surely the top riders aren't any less "irregular" than these big fish they've been catching?

Maybe their numbers are farther off because they can't afford the same level of expert gynecological coaching as the top riders.

 

[Alpe d'Huez]

Or don't have the staff surrounding them to have coffee with the testers for a half-hour or so while they "make adjustments"? Or the financial ability to donate thousands of dollars to the UCI for mysterious blood machines?

 

[Colm.Murphy]

surprisingly, he is not much of a drinker. loosely knew of the family through friends.

This situation reminds me of quote form a great American movie, Apocalypse Now:

"Charging him (Kurtz) with murder (in Viet Nam) was like handing out speeding tickets at the Indy 500" ...or something like that.

 

[Ferminal]

Or don't have the staff surrounding them to have coffee with the testers for a half-hour or so while they "make adjustments"? Or the financial ability to donate thousands of dollars to the UCI for mysterious blood machines?

How could I forget.

 

[Dr. Maserati]

Massimo Giunti. EPO 35 years old. No professional wins.

Way to catch those big fish.

Joke of the day!

Bikepure are reporting that neither Giunti or the Szczepaniak brothers were part of the Biological Passport!!!

Giunti was part of the Miche team last year - and were a UCI Continental team, and therefore not subject to the Bio Passport.
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From the UCI website:
Press release - Massimo Giunti provisionally suspended

Date:
10.03.2010

Description: Earlier today, the UCI advised Italian rider Massimo Giunti that he is provisionally suspended. The decision to provisionally suspend Mr Giunti was made in response to a report from the WADA accredited laboratory in Lausanne indicating an Adverse Analytical Finding of Recombinant EPO in a urine sample collected from him at an out-of-competition test on 23 February 2010.
This adverse finding was a direct result of a targeted urine test conducted because of an unusual blood profile in Mr Giunti’s biological passport.

The provisional suspension remains in force until a hearing panel convened by the Italian Cycling Federation determines whether Mr Giunti has committed an anti-doping rule violation under Article 21 of the UCI Anti-Doping Rules.

Mr Giunti has the right to request and attend the analyses of his B sample.

Under the World Anti-Doping Code and the UCI Anti-Doping Rules, the UCI is unable to provide any additional information at this time.

UCI Press Services

 

[blackcat]

I wait with great expectations the first Bike Pure positive.

 

[craig1985]

You know for some reason I had always thought that Tom Zirbel had been part of Bike Pure, since a few of his ex-Bissell team mates were members.

 

[karlboss]

What I would like more than anything else, though won't hold my breath, is for someone to be done under the biological passport. No positive tests, just "with these numbers, we don't know what you did but you doped to do it, take 2 years."
They have the power to do it. If they are spotting irregularities, why do they wait for the positive test?