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Zam_Olyas said:The B sample has not been tested He could still be cleared.
Fetisoff said:Maybe he was taking some Russian over-the counter supplement that just happened to contain EPO.
Fetisoff said:Maybe he was taking some Russian over-the counter supplement that just happened to contain EPO.
how are they any different from any other team?hrotha said:It doesn't get much shadier than Katusha these days.
Are you serious?
Zam_Olyas said:So do we question oscarito's ride yesterday?
Zam_Olyas said:So do we question oscarito's ride yesterday?
Nilsson said:You'd expect a guy like Galimzyanov to be able to use EPO quite safely, since he's almost certainly not tested very often...
Zam_Olyas said:So do we question oscarito's ride yesterday?
Zam_Olyas said:So do we question oscarito's ride yesterday?
Magnus said:Do you have any info on how often Galimzyanov is tested?
python said:For me there are 2 important moments here - a young rider got busted and the role of the team if any...
the former puts in doubt what many believed attitude change in the peloton and the latter brings up all the fog surrounding holtzer's past, his rotten reputation with the uci and the untrustworthy pupils of bruyneel dope school like ekimov.
Curiously, the tartar's suspension will likely clear a spot on the overstaffed (per the uci rules) team for acquired kolobnev
dlwssonic said:That sucks. Maybe felt the pressure to perform
blackcat said:Everyone rails in on the russians. I think this is bigotry pure and simple. I wait til max sciandri gets caught with Cav's blood. Or some Australians. I will have a laugh then. Cos the anglophones dont dope, we know that.
shalgo said:I love Russia, Russian literature, and Russian culture. However, Russian society is at the moment one in which cheating is condoned and indeed practiced by people at the highest levels of government and business. It is thus perhaps not surprising that cheating is also apparently widely practiced by Russian athletes and teams. One need only consider, for example, the top Russian middle-distance runners suspended before the 2008 Olympics and the many Russian winter sports athletes suspended before the 2010 Olympics.
In how many countries is doping considered such a systematic problem that the head of state becomes involved?
"But IOC President Jacques Rogge said on February 8 that he raised concerns directly with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and the Russian sports minister because of 11 winter sports doping cases involving Russian athletes during the past year."
http://www.rferl.org/content/On_Eve_Of_Winter_Olympics_30_Athletes_Banned_For_Doping/1956201.html
Also consider the following:
"The number of suspensions, and the varied events involved, raised troubling questions about possible ineptitude or corruption in Russian drug-testing procedures and also prompted concerns about whether a deliberate, systematic attempt was made by coaches or officials to undermine drug-testing protocols."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/01/sports/01iht-01doping.14929871.html
Well, last year he couldn't get to the finish to contest the sprint a lot of the time, so there's that...euanli said:Why do 100m sprinters use EPO? It is a recovery product when microdosed
Fetisoff said:Maybe he was taking some Russian over-the counter supplement that just happened to contain EPO.
Could go for the Olga Pyleva/Oksana Khvost'enko approach of "I wasn't feeling good, I was prescribed some medicine, so I went and got some. The Russian product doesn't contain EPO, but it seems the same product marketed in [insert country name here] does include EPO, so how was I ever to know?"Zam_Olyas said:Could be But they say EPO is italian so no way he bought russian over-the counter supplement.
El Pistolero said:What benefit do pure sprinters get from EPO anyway?
Libertine Seguros said:Could go for the Olga Pyleva/Oksana Khvost'enko approach of "I wasn't feeling good, I was prescribed some medicine, so I went and got some. The Russian product doesn't contain EPO, but it seems the same product marketed in [insert country name here] does include EPO, so how was I ever to know?"
Pyleva sat out 2 years, Khvost'enko managed to successfully plead her case and got it reduced to 1.
spalco said:Getting over the hills better and still being strong at the end of a 200-250km race.
Why do you think sprinters wouldn't get a lot out of EPO too?
El Pistolero said:I haven't seen Denis do both those things.
Caruut said:Which is why he took EPO, to try and do so.
It feels to me like another sacrifice of a small guy, while the big guns fire at will, but hey.