Mattia Gavazzi given 2,5 year ban

[RHRH19861986]

Mattia, who rode for Colnago-CSF until 2010, is free to ride from Sep 30 2012... Has been given 2,5 years for use of cocaine.

Promising sprinter, hope he´ll be back in 2013, though he will be 30 next year.

Wasted too many years due to wrong environments.

He blamed Savio to have given him the drug, according to different news articles, a.o. cyclingnews.

 

[Caruut]

A small guy busted for a party drug, yet the big guys get their cover-ups? Sickening.

 

[RHRH19861986]

A small guy busted for a party drug, yet the big guys get their cover-ups? Sickening.

That´s exactly my opinion...

 

[DirtyWorks]

A small guy busted for a party drug, yet the big guys get their cover-ups? Sickening.

What!?!?

Note well, Pat and Hein tell the world 2% of the peloton is doping. There is no need to upset ASO or the IOC with high profile positives.

Pat's got an anti-doping quota to fill as PROOF that the bio-passport system works. It's HAS to be filled with guys like this or else the sports image will be tarnished...

 

[Cloxxki]

They're not catching more than 2% at a time. The rest are presumed clean.

To be sure though, starting admissions are tripled in size for next year, tests halved.

 

[usedtobefast]

coke is nasty stuff really. but you don't win bike races on it. ask Boonen.

 

[BotanyBay]

coke is nasty stuff really. but you don't win bike races on it. ask Boonen.

But you can weeeeen zee attention of zee gals at "Le Rose Jaune"

 

[Caruut]

coke is nasty stuff really. but you don't win bike races on it. ask Boonen.

I'm not saying it's nice, I think that sanctioning people for taking recreational drugs is pointless moralising for the sake of some bizarre puritan image.

 

[Caruut]

What!?!?

What're you "what"ing about?

 

[DirtyWorks]

What're you "what"ing about?

That's supposed to be sort of funny. Probably didn't read like that.

We can't have people calling the UCI's anti-doping practices exactly what they are... It's bad PR. Why do you love cocaine so much?

See what I did there? That's supposed to be ironic and funny too.

 

[Polish]

This thread is useless without hookers.

 

[Michele]

I'm not saying it's nice, I think that sanctioning people for taking recreational drugs is pointless moralising for the sake of some bizarre puritan image.

He was caught already during his U23 years and heard by one of his ex team mates that it was a serious issue, more than recreational.

 

[Hematide]

coke is nasty stuff really. but you don't win bike races on it. ask Boonen.

In theory it's possible (if he somehow manages to use the stuff 20 minutes before the end sprint).

In his autobiography Belgian athlete Erik Wijmeersch talks about winning belgian championship 100m sprinting (IIRC) after a night of prostitutes and no sleep. He snorted some coke a few minutes before the start.

 

[Caruut]

He was caught already during his U23 years and heard by one of his ex team mates that it was a serious issue, more than recreational.

When I say recreational, I mean taken purely for its effects on your mentality, rather than medical drugs to cure something, or performance enhancing drugs to, well, enhance performance.

I just believe that drugs bans should be reserved for performance enhancing drugs - anything else is pretty much okay. Maybe if you had sufficient quantities of a recreational drug in your system on race day to say that you could be a danger to other racers, you might warrant a fine, but keep the bans for the PEDs.

 

[Caruut]

That's supposed to be sort of funny. Probably didn't read like that.

We can't have people calling the UCI's anti-doping practices exactly what they are... It's bad PR. Why do you love cocaine so much?

See what I did there? That's supposed to be ironic and funny too.

Sorry, my bad.

 

[El Pistolero]

Pointless punishment. This isn't going to solve his drug problem.

In the mean time Kolobtrash is back with Katusha:

http://www.hln.be/hln/nl/1297/Dopin...t-terug-naar-Katusha-na-dopingschorsing.dhtml

 

[usedtobefast]

In theory it's possible (if he somehow manages to use the stuff 20 minutes before the end sprint).

In his autobiography Belgian athlete Erik Wijmeersch talks about winning belgian championship 100m sprinting (IIRC) after a night of prostitutes and no sleep. He snorted some coke a few minutes before the start.

pretty difficult to use in a bike race. you could inject it. again where are you going to do that, and not have someone go wtf?

 

[RHRH19861986]

Pointless punishment. This isn't going to solve his drug problem.

I agree. Concerning this, he is said to have worked with Marco Pinottis mental coach (Pinotti is considered as one of few clean Italian World Tour riders). Maybe is has helped.

Boonen positive for Cocain -> years later better than ever
<-> David Kopp positive for Cocaine -> depressive, stops career, now working as a waiter
<-> Gavazzi poitive for cocaine -> let´s see... Fingers crossed for him.