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webvan said:
Yeah this seems to be a bit of a catch 22 situation here...I wonder how that was dealt with for other pharmacokinetic studies ? Basically you'd have to lock the guy up for 24 hours, allow him 8 puffs every 12 hours and then test him ?
But that's just it. Even if they do all that. Even if they construct a rigorous test that produces 2000 ng/ml. Froome needs to prove that that's what happened in the 24 hours between Stage 17's doping control and the end of Stage 18. Can he prove that? I doubt it.

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I guess it's much easier to speculate wildly than actually read up for a minute?

A urine sample is given *before* and *after* the test. So no, you can't load up on Salbutamol beforehand.
 
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webvan said:
Yeah this seems to be a bit of a catch 22 situation here...I wonder how that was dealt with for other pharmacokinetic studies ? Basically you'd have to lock the guy up for 24 hours, allow him 8 puffs every 12 hours and then test him ?

Precisely, I guess.

Is the "beat the PKStudy" methodology still readily available (if not affordable, practical, etc.) to riders responding to an AAF?
The big question ... how could the study establish any degree of valid 'control' of aforementioned variables?
Is this methodology bound to be cut by doping authorities during next rounds of cost-effectiveness review?
 
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@hazaran - right, I don't think anyone wrote he could "load up" before the test ?

ScienceIsCool said:
webvan said:
Yeah this seems to be a bit of a catch 22 situation here...I wonder how that was dealt with for other pharmacokinetic studies ? Basically you'd have to lock the guy up for 24 hours, allow him 8 puffs every 12 hours and then test him ?
But that's just it. Even if they do all that. Even if they construct a rigorous test that produces 2000 ng/ml. Froome needs to prove that that's what happened in the 24 hours between Stage 17's doping control and the end of Stage 18. Can he prove that? I doubt it.

John Swanson

True but if he can prove that with MONITORED normal dosage he can reach 2000 ng/ml it would help make his point that the same COULD have happened at the Vuelta. Now if he can't, end of story.
 
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ScienceIsCool said:
But that's just it. Even if they do all that. Even if they construct a rigorous test that produces 2000 ng/ml. Froome needs to prove that that's what happened in the 24 hours between Stage 17's doping control and the end of Stage 18. Can he prove that? I doubt it.

John Swanson
He doesn't need to prove it. Doping courts work on the balance of probabilities not proof one way or the other.

If he can show it can happen once, then the balance of probabilities suggest it happened that other time too.

Besides no-one is going to be willing to take the case to a hearing if he has the right test numbers.
 
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Parker said:
ScienceIsCool said:
But that's just it. Even if they do all that. Even if they construct a rigorous test that produces 2000 ng/ml. Froome needs to prove that that's what happened in the 24 hours between Stage 17's doping control and the end of Stage 18. Can he prove that? I doubt it.

John Swanson
He doesn't need to prove it. Doping courts work on the balance of probabilities not proof one way or the other.

If he can show it can happen once, then the balance of probabilities suggest it happened that other time too.

Besides no-one is going to be willing to take the case to a hearing if he has the right test numbers.

Hey, Parker. Appreciate the clarity and open mindedness of all your posts.

Understand your point on BOP ... but I'm sure the PKS Test must be deemed to have integrity. What about the issue of variable control? (MI, anyone?)
 
topcat said:
If it can happen once then it's possible it happened another time. Possible, unlikely, not probable. Anyway he couldn't show it happened in sa
It would become the most credible explanation of what happened though. The prosecution would have to present a more credible explanation with supporting evidence. And unless they have some smoking gun up their sleeve they won't be able to.

No lawyer is going to persist if Froome has persuasive test figures.
 
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webvan said:
@hazaran - right, I don't think anyone wrote he could "load up" before the test ?

ScienceIsCool said:
webvan said:
Yeah this seems to be a bit of a catch 22 situation here...I wonder how that was dealt with for other pharmacokinetic studies ? Basically you'd have to lock the guy up for 24 hours, allow him 8 puffs every 12 hours and then test him ?
But that's just it. Even if they do all that. Even if they construct a rigorous test that produces 2000 ng/ml. Froome needs to prove that that's what happened in the 24 hours between Stage 17's doping control and the end of Stage 18. Can he prove that? I doubt it.

John Swanson

True but if he can prove that with MONITORED normal dosage he can reach 2000 ng/ml it would help make his point that the same COULD have happened at the Vuelta. Now if he can't, end of story.


They can't test for oral/inhaled use, so what's to stop him from taking oral in the day before the test?
 
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ClassicomanoLuigi said:
- that having been said, 9 months is not really a standard for salbutamol, both the Petacchi and Ulissi cases worked out to be approximately nine months after considering many factors. Neither of them were given exactly nine months
- Petacchi originally was supposed to be banned for one year, so his approximately 9 months was a significant reduction
To be pendantic, when I said the last two cyclists with salbutamol got nine months, they were Ulissi and Alexandre Pliuschin* (in 2015), not Petacchi, who I think got a year.

*Coincidentally a contemporary of Froome's at the UCI's World Cycling Centre in 2007
 
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Red Rick said:
They can't test for oral/inhaled use, so what's to stop him from taking oral in the day before the test?

Because you give a urine sample before taking any Salbutamol as part of the test. So whatever concentration of metabolites is in that sample doesn't count.
 
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Parker said:
topcat said:
If it can happen once then it's possible it happened another time. Possible, unlikely, not probable. Anyway he couldn't show it happened in sa
It would become the most credible explanation of what happened though. The prosecution would have to present a more credible explanation with supporting evidence. And unless they have some smoking gun up their sleeve they won't be able to.

No lawyer is going to persist if Froome has persuasive test figures.


It would only be probable if team Froome can show conditions similar to when he tested double up.

You can't just doctor the conditions to suit you.

If Froome somehow manages to doctor the scores.
They have to consider, if Froome somehow gets a free pass on future off scores. What a nightmare.

Just imagine the implications.

Unless of course Froome can show he indeed had an extraordinary kidney failure. But then again, that can't be replicated? So he is toast.
 
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Vaughters: ''Chris Froome should do the honourable thing''
Vaughters warned that ''the case will drag on and on, explaining that even in the event of the ban it would surely be appealed in the Court of Arbitration for Sport – by Froome if it’s a long ban or WADA if it’s a short one.''

since when does honour feature in professional sports with millions of €€€ at stake?
at this stage the UCI are seen in almost the league as FIFA, IOC etc, eg corrupt, toothless and asleep at the wheel
 
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53*11 said:
Vaughters: ''Chris Froome should do the honourable thing''
Vaughters warned that ''the case will drag on and on, explaining that even in the event of the ban it would surely be appealed in the Court of Arbitration for Sport – by Froome if it’s a long ban or WADA if it’s a short one.''

since when does honour feature in professional sports with millions of €€€ at stake?
at this stage the UCI are seen in almost the league as FIFA, IOC etc, eg corrupt, toothless and asleep at the wheel


:lol: :lol: :lol:
 
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53*11 said:
Vaughters: ''Chris Froome should do the honourable thing''
Vaughters warned that ''the case will drag on and on, explaining that even in the event of the ban it would surely be appealed in the Court of Arbitration for Sport – by Froome if it’s a long ban or WADA if it’s a short one.''

since when does honour feature in professional sports with millions of €€€ at stake?
at this stage the UCI are seen in almost the league as FIFA, IOC etc, eg corrupt, toothless and asleep at the wheel


Corrupt and toothless certainly......asleep at the wheel? I don't think so; their eyes are wide open, they see everything, they just choose what they want to be an issue and what they want to ignore.
 
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hazaran said:
Red Rick said:
They can't test for oral/inhaled use, so what's to stop him from taking oral in the day before the test?

Because you give a urine sample before taking any Salbutamol as part of the test. So whatever concentration of metabolites is in that sample doesn't count.
Still they'll need to have some surveillance so he can't take any Sal orally during the whole test-day...
 
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webvan said:
Yes that's a scoop, a UCI lab too, how many of these are there?

In SA there's none accredited. Anyway the controlled test is done in Lausanne so I don't know of what "UCI lab" is that tweet talking about, Froome being in SA riding his own grand tour.
I haven't noticed any (legal) motorpacing in any of the GTs

I would imagine that is to mimic the effect of being in a peloton to some extent if he really is trying to get to the same physiological state as he was in the Vuelta. I can't see how they could say you can't do that as walking cold into a lab under different conditions is hardly replicating the circumstances of the AAF is it ?
 

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