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Right so what I want to know is in this new transparent cleans era how come the only source defining Niels van den Driessche , the bother of the girl with the motor has a two year ban for EPO is a couple of lines in the monthly Flandrian newletter. http://www.dopinglijn.be/fileadmin/media/nieuws/Studiedag/dopingpreventie_-_gids_voor_sportfederaties.pdf There is no record of it on the doping be website http://www.dopinglijn.be
and nothing at the UCI.
According the doping BE stats http://www.dopinglijn.be/fileadmin/media/cijfers_stats/2014_jaartotaal.pdf there were 40 positives and 17 confirmations. 23 got to live another day. Does WADA know about this. If they don't how can they appeal the case to CAS if they disagree that the Belgian Fed made a fair fist of dealing with the case of Belgian riders who had actually done the near impossible and failed the anti-doping test ?
And of those 17 how many are on the UCI website ?
If someone can point them out and track the record of these cases that would be great. Right now, having not been able to find Niels van den Driessche on the anti-doping BE website I am a a little perplexed.
What is lighting-jack-flash-Cookson doing ?
Right so what I want to know is in this new transparent cleans era how come the only source defining Niels van den Driessche , the bother of the girl with the motor has a two year ban for EPO is a couple of lines in the monthly Flandrian newletter. http://www.dopinglijn.be/fileadmin/media/nieuws/Studiedag/dopingpreventie_-_gids_voor_sportfederaties.pdf There is no record of it on the doping be website http://www.dopinglijn.be
and nothing at the UCI.
According the doping BE stats http://www.dopinglijn.be/fileadmin/media/cijfers_stats/2014_jaartotaal.pdf there were 40 positives and 17 confirmations. 23 got to live another day. Does WADA know about this. If they don't how can they appeal the case to CAS if they disagree that the Belgian Fed made a fair fist of dealing with the case of Belgian riders who had actually done the near impossible and failed the anti-doping test ?
And of those 17 how many are on the UCI website ?
If someone can point them out and track the record of these cases that would be great. Right now, having not been able to find Niels van den Driessche on the anti-doping BE website I am a a little perplexed.
What is lighting-jack-flash-Cookson doing ?
Cookson needs to go. Still can't believe how many actually believed he was gonna be 'the guy' to save pro cycling. I guess Hein and Pat were so bad, that even Donald J. Trump would be an improvement....
In all seriousness though, people need to wake up. There is so much money going around, even in a sport that pales in comparison to football (both kinds), basketball, athletics, tennis, etc that you are bound to have corruption. As the Armstrong saga showed us, it happens in cycling as well, and it will continue to happen. It would take someone that's knowledgeable but non-mainstream, someone that's not gonna kiss butts but will work with and be more pragmatic and less interest driven. That may be nigh on impossible in world of professional sport, but that's where you need to start.
In all seriousness though, people need to wake up. There is so much money going around, even in a sport that pales in comparison to football (both kinds), basketball, athletics, tennis, etc that you are bound to have corruption. As the Armstrong saga showed us, it happens in cycling as well, and it will continue to happen. It would take someone that's knowledgeable but non-mainstream, someone that's not gonna kiss butts but will work with and be more pragmatic and less interest driven. That may be nigh on impossible in world of professional sport, but that's where you need to start.
BullsFan22 said:
The only reason I even gave him a chance was that he wasn't Phat or Verbruggen. It was always probably that he was drinking the same kool-aid, but you have to at least try. It couldn't have gotten a lot worse than those two numbnuts. I still don't think it's worse, but I also don't think it's any better.
Even more than classical doping, it would seem motordoping is susceptible to corrupt behavior from officials.
Testing for motors tomorrow? A quick call or even a simple sms/whatsapp to (one of) the team managers...cha-ching...
And should they find a motor, as this is not WADA regulated testing, there is so much scope for brown envelopes to settle uncomfortable situations and clear the Sky...I mean, sky.
So the huge, ugly, monstruous *** Dinosaur in the room here is called Oliver.
But no worries, Brian reassured us that
Testing for motors tomorrow? A quick call or even a simple sms/whatsapp to (one of) the team managers...cha-ching...
And should they find a motor, as this is not WADA regulated testing, there is so much scope for brown envelopes to settle uncomfortable situations and clear the Sky...I mean, sky.
So the huge, ugly, monstruous *** Dinosaur in the room here is called Oliver.
But no worries, Brian reassured us that
UCI nor any sports federation should have anything to do with the testing and sanctioning of riders/athletes. Inter-Europol should have a special section for sporting fraud and the police should handle the testing. And the sports world should of course put up most of the money because it certainly wouldn't be cheap.
There will of course still be corruption but hopefully less.
There will of course still be corruption but hopefully less.
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The complete failure of the cycling media to call Cookson to account is unsurprising. Not a word on the lack of independent testing.
agreed.Metabolol said:
The complete failure of the cycling media to call Cookson to account is unsurprising. Not a word on the lack of independent testing.
Cookson putting out this kind of crap shows his true colours
https://mobile.twitter.com/dtryn/status/695689515424419840
Top 10 dopers of the sport.........
https://mobile.twitter.com/dtryn/status/695689515424419840
Top 10 dopers of the sport.........
I must be missing something, because I don't see what this tweet of procyclingstats.com rankings has to do with Cookson
Team Katusha have had 8 positives!
Cookson bagging it big time...........must be laughing at Coe.
Cookson bagging it big time...........must be laughing at Coe.
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The only mention of UCI is by the author of the tweet
doesn't say UCI here
http://www.procyclingstats.com/rankings.php?c=1&id=728
or in the mobile version
Benotti69 said:
The only mention of UCI is by the author of the tweet
doesn't say UCI here
http://www.procyclingstats.com/rankings.php?c=1&id=728
or in the mobile version
by going through Cookson's twitter feed, you can make quite a list of athletes whom - hand in fire - are never ever going to test positive under his reign.
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Not sure McQuaid has the intelligence to work a mobile phone to take a selfie!
fmk_RoI said:At least McQuaid didn't take selfies...
Not sure McQuaid has the intelligence to work a mobile phone to take a selfie!
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Give that Monkey the UCI presidency.
fmk_RoI said:Benotti69 said:
Even monkeys can take selfies
Give that Monkey the UCI presidency.
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Armstrong's responses are priceless. I cannot believe how much of a clown Cookson has become.
Benotti69 said:
Armstrong's responses are priceless. I cannot believe how much of a clown Cookson has become.
thehog
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In all seriousness, I don't know how BC would be able to shun EM for something he did over 30 years ago. If he was expected to shun every doper in cycling history he would end up a very, very lonely person. Imo
You guys are criticizing Brian Cookson for taking a selfie with Eddie? Wow, this really is the silly season....thehog said:thehog said:
Priceless. Cookson just hanging out with dopers, living the dream.
In all seriousness, I don't know how BC would be able to shun EM for something he did over 30 years ago. If he was expected to shun every doper in cycling history he would end up a very, very lonely person. Imo
thehog
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No. More so citing the irony of his behaviour as president. He is acting more like a teenager in love than a president with professional skills of diplomacy.
Clearly the Katusha situation was firmly on his mind when he was taking selfies with Eddie the human amphetamine Merckx.
Irondan said:
No. More so citing the irony of his behaviour as president. He is acting more like a teenager in love than a president with professional skills of diplomacy.
Clearly the Katusha situation was firmly on his mind when he was taking selfies with Eddie the human amphetamine Merckx.
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