lean said:
i AM for lengthier bans for more powerful drugs/methods. ironically, the contador situation, because clenbuterol seems* to show up out of nowhere, is very suggestive of a more serious infraction like a transfusion (the equivalent of EPO).
*obviously incomplete information on all of AC's controls/values at this point but i think we all know what was happening.
You can't have this. "Well, he tested for this or that, and as we all know it's indicative of something else. Therefore, off with his head".
The conjectures that have been made between the correlation of this tiny amount of clen and massive blood doping may make sense hypothetically, but in the real world it would have to be proven scientifically.
This isn't a real "Clinic" by the way. There are no doctors or scientists here performing the necessary tests and experiments so that this stuff can be sorted out.
Here, there is nothing but virtual conjecture.
I am so sick and tired of reading the same garbage over and over again, you guys with your 4-year and lifetime bans for first-time offenders. I believe none of you are equipped, even if you had all the resources at hand, to figure out the doping issue in cycling. Which is why the same nonsense gets repeated over and over again. People who are clueless should stay on the sidelines and let others who actually know come up with solutions.
Here's a hint at where I'm going-Jan Ullrich and Alejandro Valverde were hounded virtually out of the sport though they never tested positive. Yet the very doctor at the heart of the controversy not only skated on a technicality, he, 4 years later, get busted AGAIN for doing the same exact thing he was accused of in Operation Puerto!!!
Yes, you anti-doping crusaders-keep going after the riders while the organized doping apparatus remains virtually untouched. Brilliant strategy.
How about this? How about a lifetime ban for riders AND their children?
How about sanctioning the riders' parents for bringing these doped riders into the world?