Michael Barry

[thehog]

+1

does anybody have a link to this interview (from 2010) in which Dede apparently stands up for her husband saying he didn't dope?

How about this pearl:

Michael, what was your initial reaction when you heard about what Landis said?

Michael Barry: Pretty shocking. I found out just before the stage yesterday, and, obviously, I was stunned, the stories aren’t true.

Are you shocked that you were mentioned?

MB: For sure, when you see false allegations like that, it is pretty shocking. I was thinking about it during the race quite a bit, it is traumatic, really.

If it’s not true, why would Landis do that?

MB: I don’t know. I have not spoken with him in several years. I said hello to him at the Tour of California last year.

What has been the reaction from Team Sky?

MB: They have been supportive. The last few years, I have raced with teams with anti-doping stances, and throughout my career I have had a strong anti-doping stance and for clean sport. That was the one big reason I decided to come to Sky. They looked at all the biological passports of the riders. They are contributing to moving the sport in the right direction and that has always been important to me.

What did you tell team manager Dave Brailsford last night?

MB: They just wanted to know my side of the story, that was it. They have faith in me, that is why they hired me.

http://velonews.competitor.com/2010/05/news/michael-barry-denies-floyd-landis-charges_117630

 

[compete_clean]

At one point I wanted to talk to Mike (again) about the sport after he retired. Now I'm just not that interested.

 

[the delgados]

@compete_clean
What did you want to talk about?

 

[thehog]

How about this pearl:



http://velonews.competitor.com/2010/05/news/michael-barry-denies-floyd-landis-charges_117630

That Dave Brailsford sure has his finger on the pulse. No pulling the wool over his eyes!

 

[BroDeal]

How about this pearl:

What did you tell team manager Dave Brailsford last night?

MB: They just wanted to know my side of the story, that was it. They have faith in me, that is why they hired me.

Brailsford must have employed the patented Bruyneel "look 'em in the eye" technique for detecting dopers. Apparently it did not work any better for Brailsford than it did for Bruyneel.

 

[thehog]

Brailsford must have employed the patented Bruyneel "look 'em in the eye" technique for detecting dopers. Apparently it did not work any better for Brailsford than it did for Bruyneel.

Have you ever seen Dave Bruyneel and Johan Brailsford in the same room?

 

[Dear Wiggo]

Brailsford must have employed the patented Bruyneel "look 'em in the eye" technique for detecting dopers. Apparently it did not work any better for Brailsford than it did for Bruyneel.

Steve Peters is from the prison system, isn't he? Pretty sure they ran all these riders past Steve as part of the hiring process.

 

[sniper]

How about this pearl:

http://velonews.competitor.com/2010/05/news/michael-barry-denies-floyd-landis-charges_117630

well **** me. Interviews like these, imo, leave little room for doubt:
1. Sky never went for clean cycling.
2. JV can never really genuinely have believed Sky are clean, even though that's what he's been telling us.
1+2=3. We are still being kept for fools.

That Dave Brailsford sure has his finger on the pulse. No pulling the wool over his eyes!

I still wonder how Walsh allowed JV to pull wool over his eyes.

Steve Peters is from the prison system, isn't he? Pretty sure they ran all these riders past Steve as part of the hiring process.

 

[martinvickers]

Steve Peters is from the prison system, isn't he? Pretty sure they ran all these riders past Steve as part of the hiring process.

He was a criminology and psychopathy specialist by trade I think - cue laughter - pretty sure he worked in one of the big HSH, Rampton, I think

sorry, HSH=high security hospitals

Peters is a pretty clever guy, but if Brailsford was using him as some sort of human lie detector, that's just looking for mockery.

I do wonder if Peters was 'tasked' more to look into 'current behavior' as opposed to past behaviour - but that's pure conjecture. Bottom line, Sky clearly were far too lax/trusting/naive/cynical (delete as appropriate) in their early hiring policies.

BTW Froome has a short interview in the Times yesterday - usual internecine guff, but one interesting line that the ZTP was "the sponsor's policy" - rather lends credence to the idea that after a bad first season, Brailsford was instructed to "loosen" the ZTP from on high - to Garmin-ize the policy as it were - and then post USADA, again the sponsors have come down like a tonne of bricks. It would explain the spectacularly bad pr skills and the softly, softly way of getting the 'tainted' out.

 

[compete_clean]

@compete_clean
What did you want to talk about?

I wanted to follow up on talks we had about doping 20+ yrs ago.

 

[Orvieto]

Seems Michael Barry has a lot to answer for as an enforcer of omerta.

Here's Wiggins explaining his past criticisms of Landis:

As for Michael Barry, Wiggins said that he never thought he was part of a doping culture and said that his own stance on Landis had been informed by the aspersions Barry cast on the American’s mental state.

“You get asked about Floyd and you feel like you’re in a gang and you say what everyone in the gang is saying. You become part of that, because it’s easier. A lot of people look really stupid now, as do some of the comments I made,” Wiggins said.

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/wiggins-it-was-easier-to-spit-out-from-the-tent-than-spit-into-it

Barry has always tried to portray himself as an intelligent observer of the peloton, a philosopher with a camera. Seems he's just an extension of the Armstrong smear tactics campaign. When will we see an article on slander and its applications in pro cycling in his pretentiously titled blog "Le Metier"?

 

[thehog]

Seems Michael Barry has a lot to answer for as an enforcer of omerta.

Here's Wiggins explaining his past criticisms of Landis:

As for Michael Barry, Wiggins said that he never thought he was part of a doping culture and said that his own stance on Landis had been informed by the aspersions Barry cast on the American’s mental state.

“You get asked about Floyd and you feel like you’re in a gang and you say what everyone in the gang is saying. You become part of that, because it’s easier. A lot of people look really stupid now, as do some of the comments I made,” Wiggins said.

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/wiggins-it-was-easier-to-spit-out-from-the-tent-than-spit-into-it

Barry has always tried to portray himself as an intelligent observer of the peloton, a philosopher with a camera. Seems he's just an extension of the Armstrong smear tactics campaign. When will we see an article on slander and its applications in pro cycling in his pretentiously titled blog "Le Metier"?

Flogging off his book "Inside the Postal Bus". Barry is all BS. Hardly an intelligent observer.

 

[D-Queued]

...

“You get asked about Floyd and you feel like you’re in a gang and you say what everyone in the gang is saying. You become part of that, because it’s easier. A lot of people look really stupid now, as do some of the comments I made,” Wiggins said.[/I]

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/wiggins-it-was-easier-to-spit-out-from-the-tent-than-spit-into-it

...

+1 for Wiggins.

Dave.

 

[Benotti69]

Flogging off his book "Inside the Postal Bus". Barry is all BS. Hardly an intelligent observer.

Maybe he'll do a new edition with all the guys hanging out in the bus with all the blood bags hanging out of the ceiling

 

[Bandoblue]

Seems Michael Barry has a lot to answer for as an enforcer of omerta....

Barry has always tried to portray himself as an intelligent observer of the peloton, a philosopher with a camera. Seems he's just an extension of the Armstrong smear tactics campaign. When will we see an article on slander and its applications in pro cycling in his pretentiously titled blog "Le Metier"?

That leapt right out at me, too. Nothing, but nothing, makes me fell as much of a chump as the credit and enthusiasm I once had for Barry. I could tell Armstrong was a bully from the get-go, doped or clean--I was never going to be a fan. Barry was the one I identified with, the clean journeyman, the insider with the outsider's observing eye.

Damn, but I'm a rube.

I do have to give Wiggins backhanded props, though--for a guy who never seemed overly cursed with self awareness, that was a succinct and sharply observed self-indictment he just gave.

 

[Benotti69]

Mick Barry bringing out a book the week before the giro.

Kimmage it would appear has read this book

http://www.rte.ie/radio/utils/radioplayer/rteradioweb.html#!rii=9:20564019:15036:16-04-2014:

Allegedly Barry's book talks of abuse of caffeine, ibuprofen, Viagra, tramadol.

 

[Digger]

Mick Barry bringing out a book the week before the giro.

Kimmage it would appear has read this book

http://www.rte.ie/radio/utils/radioplayer/rteradioweb.html#!rii=9:20564019:15036:16-04-2014:

Allegedly Barry's book talks of abuse of caffeine, ibuprofen, Viagra, tramadol.

yeah but this was all before sky obviously

 

[sniper]

Mick Barry bringing out a book the week before the giro.

Kimmage it would appear has read this book

http://www.rte.ie/radio/utils/radioplayer/rteradioweb.html#!rii=9:20564019:15036:16-04-2014:

Allegedly Barry's book talks of abuse of caffeine, ibuprofen, Viagra, tramadol.

good interview. kimmage owns darach.
kimmage on cookson: "he's still reactive, he needs to be proactive"

 

[Race Radio]

Mick Barry bringing out a book the week before the giro.

Kimmage it would appear has read this book

http://www.rte.ie/radio/utils/radioplayer/rteradioweb.html#!rii=9:20564019:15036:16-04-2014:

Allegedly Barry's book talks of abuse of caffeine, ibuprofen, Viagra, tramadol.

Don't get too excited.

Daniel Friebe ‏@friebos 30m
Have read Michael Barry's book. Suspect anyone expecting lots of juicy revelations will be disappointed.

 

[Hawkwood]

Tramadol

Sorry not up to speed on this. I've been prescribed Tramadol in the past for serious pain issues, and it's extremely powerful and effective. What's the reason for it being used by pro cyclists, is it for the pain relief?

 

[Netserk]

Sorry not up to speed on this. I've been prescribed Tramadol in the past for serious pain issues, and it's extremely powerful and effective. What's the reason for it being used by pro cyclists, is it for the pain relief?

Inner Ring had a decent article on it:
http://inrng.com/2014/04/tramadol/

 

[Fortyninefourteen]

Sorry not up to speed on this. I've been prescribed Tramadol in the past for serious pain issues, and it's extremely powerful and effective. What's the reason for it being used by pro cyclists, is it for the pain relief?

Dulls the pain of extreme effort. Also in use, hillbilly heroin: Oxycontin and Oxycondone.

 

[Hawkwood]

Tramadol

Okay many thanks. I was given it following a couple of operations, and also after fracturing my wrist in a cycle crash, it was great. A couple of years ago a doctor gave me a 100 tablets when I had more pain issues, a friend who researches drugs was shocked at this. So mix it with caffeine and I'm ready to go!

 

[Justinr]

Okay many thanks. I was given it following a couple of operations, and also after fracturing my wrist in a cycle crash, it was great. A couple of years ago a doctor gave me a 100 tablets when I had more pain issues, a friend who researches drugs was shocked at this. So mix it with caffeine and I'm ready to go!

I've had Tramadol and Oxycodone (not Oxycondone - that made laugh). 100 Tramadol tablets is only 12 1/2 days worth - I was on it (on and off) for 3 months (together with Codeine) before I had my hip Landis-ed.

Both (like Codeine) are opiates and (generally) have massive pain relieving properties. There was an article on Tramadol on CN a few months back suggesting it should be monitored and that it was being abused. Some chap from Sky was interviewed and they said that they only prescribed it now and then.

Frankly if someone was going to abuse it while cycling they'd be completely bonkers in my mind - when I first started taking it I could hardly string a sentence together within an hour of taking them and needed scraping off the ceiling. That wears off within a week or two as your body gets used to it - as does the pain relieving effect. You can also build up a tolerance and addiction to it if you're not careful.

You can imagine the effect of mixing it with Codeine as well - I used to wait until I got to work before taking them and then time my drive home so that they had just worn off, not to mention the severe constipation ...

 

[Justinr]

Mick Barry bringing out a book the week before the giro.

Kimmage it would appear has read this book

http://www.rte.ie/radio/utils/radioplayer/rteradioweb.html#!rii=9:20564019:15036:16-04-2014:

Allegedly Barry's book talks of abuse of caffeine, ibuprofen, Viagra, tramadol.

The Viagra thing was done in an episode of Top Gear (very laddish car program for the non-UKers) when they drove across Bolivia (or somewhere) and they were at something like 5000m altitude. Helps the blood flow (obviously), etc.

On a funny point I think it was James May that had trouble swallowing it and they joked he'd get a stiff neck ...