Team director Serge Parsani was surprised at the news. "This is the first I heard of this. If it is on the UCI's website at least they could inform the team,"
Stani Kléber said:The UCI has a rule that if three riders get caught in a season then the team gets suspended. Given Pfannberger was busted on 19 March and Colom's sample is from 2 April, it may be possible that more riders from their prominent spring campaign get named in the coming week.
krebs303 said:This adverse finding is a direct result of a targeted test conducted on Mr Colom Mas using information in his blood profile and knowledge of his upcoming race schedule.
BroDeal said:Wow. Another rider leaves Bruyneel and tests positive. I guess that high cadence power boost ceases to work when the rider is no longer under the watchful eye of the Hog.
I wonder if the Spanish fed will protect Colom like they are protecting Valverde.
Agreed. It looks like the UCI was forced to make somebody fail. An the "weakest link" was Katyusha??hfer07 said:I wonder- what a coincidence this new case just appear when Kohl happened to expose the useless UCI anti doping policy......
BroDeal said:I don't believe it.
The UCI is trying to justify the money they are charging the teams for the passport.
Jamsque said:What's that you say? An ex-Bruyneel super-domestique has been caught for EPO? Oh. Wake me up when something unusual happens.
BigBoat said:The entire Katusha team is blood doping me thinks...
Well Big Boat, it sounds like the Katyusha team should learn from this Forum. It looks like there are still some teams on plain EPO to jack up the crit values.BigBoat said:Why not Dynepo.....???? I'm clueless as to why he was using r-epo. He certainly was not doping with the r-epo or he would have had 100 positive tests. He was microdosing it to stimulate rectics while blood doping with his own blood... This could have happend, he could have had unusually high or low rectics and they target tested him more often and got him IV dosing epo in the morning and tested him immediately after the dosage....
The entire Katusha team is blood doping me thinks...