Anna Solovey of the Ukraine got the Silver in the women's ITT today. Is she the same as Hanna Solovey 31 01 1992 of the Ukraine who tested positive at 19 in her first senior event the Tour of Chongming Island and then had a two year ban ?
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Freddythefrog said:Anna Solovey of the Ukraine got the Silver in the women's ITT today. Is she the same as Hanna Solovey 31 01 1992 of the Ukraine who tested positive at 19 in her first senior event the Tour of Chongming Island and then had a two year ban ?
blacklisted perhaps.Libertine Seguros said:Yes. Anna Solovey, Ganna Solovey and Hanna Solovey are all the same person.
The culprit is the Cyrillic letter Г. In Russian it represents [g], in Ukrainian it represents [h], and as [h] is seldom present in French, when she registered in France it was lost in pronunciation yielding "Hanna" pronounced "Anna".
She came back after the ban and started destroying ITTs and raised a lot of eyebrows doing so, couldn't get a pro contract though so it seems like there was some concern among teams about her. This year her only UCI-rated results are a win in the Chrono Champénois and a silver today.
sniper said:blacklisted perhaps.
or not, but in any case me thinks that if there was concern it was not about her doping but about her having been caught doing so and thus representing bad PR.
edit: excellent phonological analysis by the way
Race Radio said:Didn't she make up some crazy excuse when she was caught? Something about her coach tricking her into doping
ralphbert said:That is a new trick from the dopers handbook. I'm ****ed if I'm going to start calling The garmin anti doping hero Avid Millar.
sniper said:Cookson will be delighted she only came second to the clean Brennauer.
Benotti69 said:You mean Dafydd Millar, no longer that dirty doping Scot, but the clean Welsh Saintly hero
Dear Wiggo said:Be interesting to get more info on her first doping offence - it puts a serious dent in the whole, "there's no money for doping in women's cycling" mantra.
And it didn't really work anyway....del1962 said:And Stuey O'Rady her coach said she only doped once.
Dear Wiggo said:Daffyd - the only clean rider in the village?
Dear Wiggo said:Be interesting to get more info on her first doping offence - it puts a serious dent in the whole, "there's no money for doping in women's cycling" mantra.
Catwhoorg said:We established in the JTL thread that a vial of EPO costs in the region of 25-35 pounds (30-45 Euro) which is about a week's worth of dosing. (depends on weight)
200 Euro/month for the EPO, plus paraphernalia costs.
Its not expensive at all these days.
I spend far more than that on groceries each week.
Dear Wiggo said:I think her first doping offence was back in 2003 (?) so the pricing then would be different at a guess.
Useful cost figures all the same.
Dear Wiggo said:I think her first doping offence was back in 2003 (?) so the pricing then would be different at a guess.
Useful cost figures all the same.