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Doping in Austria

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This is why some athletes will deny, deny, deny 'till their deathbed (and beyond). Admit something and it gets used in court:
https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/preidler-charged-with-fraud-in-operation-aderlass-doping-inquiry/

Also, has this Danish study mentioned at the end of the article been discussed in these pages before?
"A 2018 Danish study showed that a mere 135ml autologous transfusion could provide an athlete with detectable performance gains while likely falling short of triggering further examinations of the biological passport values."
 
I wonder if Sunweb's "We might sue him" is just posturing? I mean, wouldn't that be a big risk by the team--if Preidler is in the position of having to defend himself, he might spill the goods on other team members & support staff? Or is the omerta too strong for that?
 
This is really disgusting, honestly. A domestique in WT gets slashed by his former teammates, squad just for doing what 90% of the peloton does, while other top riders who have been caught red-handed (Valverde, Contador and so on) get by with your average two year suspension and return winning and reaching even higher ceilings.

And let's not forget about Sky...
 
This is really disgusting, honestly. A domestique in WT gets slashed by his former teammates, squad just for doing what 90% of the peloton does, while other top riders who have been caught red-handed (Valverde, Contador and so on) get by with your average two year suspension and return winning and reaching even higher ceilings.

And let's not forget about Sky...
It is really infuriating to me. Let's bully him and make him a pariah and maybe he'll be the next Santambrogio :mad:
 
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Some interesting bits in MPCC's recent communications with UCI arising from Aderlass and detailing modern doping techniques, including use of AICAR and the evolution of blood transfusion practices. Haven't actually seen full letter as my AV software is saying there's something dodge about the MPCC's website (mpcc.fr - it appears to have been hacked), so this is from the CN story on it:
The Movement For Credible Cycling (MPCC) - the association of teams, riders, races and sponsors that work together against doping in professional cycling, have called on the UCI to carry out blood test much closer to the start and finishes of races to help fight what it describes as a 'doping mafia protocol' that operates outside of normal team set-ups.

The MPCC suspects athletes may somehow escape detection by transfusing blood into their bodies in the morning and then extracting the blood soon after the finish of races.

The MPCC also called on the UCI to do more out-of-competition blood tests when riders can potentially take out blood for future transfusions as they start a break from racing. They also called for test for plastics in blood samples to indicate possible blood transfusions and to investigate the use of powders, possibly the banned performance-enhancing substance AICAR (an experimental drug), in drinks in the final part of the stages.
This is based on info given to Marc Madiot and Iwan Spekenbrink by Georg Preidler.

UCI's response is a bit snotty and feels more like a salvo in the latest skirmishes between Aigle and the teams:
Lappartient revealed that the CADF carried out 5,307 blood tests in 2017 and 5,585 in 2018 as part of the Biological Passport programme with targeted tests given a preference. He said any increase would depend on an increase in the CADF's budget.
 
two more German cyclists were part of this. Both did the Tour de France in the past, and one of them is still active


The doping treatments happened in 2012 and 2013:


So we can probably strike out the "youngsters" who were still riding on CT level in 2013. That leaves us with these still active riders who did the Tour at least once:

Arndt, Nikias
Burghardt, Marcus
Degenkolb, John
Fröhlinger, Johannes (to retire next week)
Geschke, Simon
Greipel, André
Kluge, Roger
Knees, Christian
Martens, Paul
Martin, Tony
Schillinger, Andreas
Selig, Rüdiger
Sieberg, Marcel

and these who (more or less) recently have retired from cycling:

(retired in 2019) Kittel, Marcel
(retired in 2019) Wagner, Robert
(retired in 2017) Gretsch, Patrick
(retired in 2016) Ciolek, Gerald
(retired in 2016) Gerdemann Linus
(retired in 2016) Nerz, Dominik
(retired in 2016) Voss, Paul
(retired in 2016) Wegmann, Fabian
(retired in 2015) Förster, Robert
(retired in 2015) Schumacher, Stefan
(retired in 2014) Sinkewitz, Patrik
(retired in 2014) Voigt, Jens
(retired in 2013) Fothen, Markus
(retired in 2013) Grabsch, Bert
(retired in 2013) Hondo, Danilo (confessed already)
(retired in 2013) Klier, Andreas
(retired in 2013) Klöden, Andreas
(retired in 2013) Schröder, Björn
(retired in 2012) Niermann, Grischa

if the information from the ARD are correct, one from each list was a customer of Dr Schmidt.
 
Any news on Mark Schmidt and who the high profile clients are/were? It seems only smaller countries and not really high profile names. I have a hard time believing that no top level German athletes were clients of Schmidt. It's another case of going after lower profile athletes and/or from countries that don't have the resources to protect/sweep under the rug.
 
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So as i understand it they (the Seppelt Boys and the Authorities) already know their names for quite some time, but no consequences so far for the involved riders. They also said that there is a swiss pro who doped (not specified IF he is a cyclist though) and Mark Schmidt doped riders at the Tour de Suisse und Tour de Romandie.
 

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