General Doping Thread.

[Rob5091]

If you've 5 minutes to spare, a blast from the past (as they used to say on the wireless) from 1999, the Gianetti episode, and the need for reform within cycling. Oh, such innocent people who did not see Lance on the horizon.
https://www.salon.com/1999/04/21/cycling/

A 1990 Swedish study on EPO estimated the performance-enhancing quotient of the drug to be around 10 percent.

 

[Rob5091]

Th Enhanced Games were all about peptides - the next big thing,and now we have, after the Bath tub Boys, Paradigm Peptides
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gd82vvvdno

The owner of Paradigm Peptides, Matthew Kawa, was jailed for five years and 10 months on Thursday after he admitted deliberately selling unapproved medicines, trying to deceive people about what they were and illegally bringing the products into the country.

His sister, Jennifer Stechkober, who also pleaded guilty to selling unapproved medicines, was sent to prison for a year and four months. ...Another type of drug sold by Paradigm Peptides was SARMs - Selective Androgen Receptor Modulators - which target specific tissues to increase muscle and bone mass.

Maybe Hegseth should re-think his latest crazy idea,
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gd82vvvdno

Daniel Murphy thought he was taking a safe and tested dietary supplement that would help him put on muscle in the gym.

But over the following two years, his mental health spiralled to such a degree he ended up in a state of psychosis in which he believed his wife was trying to steal his business and his mother-in-law was going to kill him.

Unknown to Daniel, the daily pills he had been taking had been mixed with testosterone.

 

[Rob5091]

Essential bed-time reading! Or maybe not, but the ITA report for 2025 is here (at https://ita.sport/ita-annual-report-2025/ )
One interesting point, 853 TUE applications (the most ever) and the UCI/Cycling came in tops at 66.

 

[Rob5091]

Unibet Tietema Rockets rider suspended for 'unexplained abnormalities' in Athlete Biological Passport

Team announces suspension of Italian rider Giovanni Carboni with immediate effect

www.cyclingnews.com

Giovanni Carboni suspended, Team UKYO to Unibet isn‘t the same program it seems

4 years for Carboni for ABP irregularities from 2024 -
https://ita.sport/news/the-ita-ackn...ibunal-decision-sanctioning-giovanni-carboni/

https://cyclinguptodate.com/cycling...-rockets-rider-has-doping-infraction-verified

An independent expert panel unanimously concluded that the alterations recorded during and after the 2024 Tour de Langkawi were highly consistent with the use of a prohibited substance or method.

 

[Squire]

4 years for Carboni for ABP irregularities from 2024 -
https://ita.sport/news/the-ita-ackn...ibunal-decision-sanctioning-giovanni-carboni/

https://cyclinguptodate.com/cycling...-rockets-rider-has-doping-infraction-verified

Thought CT teams weren't subject to ABP? Or did Carboni have to stay in the testing pool for a potential return to PRT?

 

[Rob5091]

Thought CT teams weren't subject to ABP? Or did Carboni have to stay in the testing pool for a potential return to PRT?

As he has been on a Pro team, I'd guess that he was in the ABP pool, but the ITA has been going after Conti riders and teams, so as it says on UCI's website, world, pro and also

other riders from all disciplines as determined by the ITA, including any rider who wishes to attempt the Hour Record.

 

[saunaking]

Anyone see the Steve Magness video?

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b542UIppS80&t=319s


Good video, interesting framing of Josh Kerr (I dont follow athletics) but Pogacar sure ticks a lot of boxes for Magness