Robert Vrečer

[Lukacek]

According to Slovenian press agency he violated anti-doping rules at last year's Tour of Poland. Sample was taken on 30th July 2013. In his urine were found traces of clomiphene.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clomifene
Clomifene is commonly used by male users to bind the estrogen receptors in their bodies, thereby blocking the effects of estrogen, such as gynecomastia. It also restores the body's natural production of testosterone. It is included on the World Anti-Doping Agency list of illegal doping agents in sport.

During 2013 season he was riding for Carrots. For 2014 he signed for Team Vorarlberg, but he is not included in their roster on their official site.

 

[Ferminal]

Poor guy, the first time he had ever doped as he was chasing WT points.

 

[MADRAZO]

According to Slovenian press agency he violated anti-doping rules at last year's Tour of Poland. Sample was taken on 30th July 2013. In his urine were found traces of clomiphene.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clomifene
Clomifene is commonly used by male users to bind the estrogen receptors in their bodies, thereby blocking the effects of estrogen, such as gynecomastia. It also restores the body's natural production of testosterone. It is included on the World Anti-Doping Agency list of illegal doping agents in sport.

During 2013 season he was riding for Carrots. For 2014 he signed for Team Vorarlberg, but he is not included in their roster on their official site.

Team Vorarlberg earlier in the year stated that Vrecer withdrew from the contract due to personal familymatters, or something like that. I guess this explains this.

 

[Benotti69]

Does he not have a copy of the UCI handbook of doping excuses?

 

[hrotha]

Lol at Euskaltel's signings.

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

good. vrecer was detsroying the european tour riders left and right and even wt riders like brajkovic at nationals (itt) then he went to euskaltel and had to clean up and he sucked big time. I gues he tried some in the summer as his riding was pathetic.

 

[roundabout]

good. vrecer was detsroying the european tour riders left and right and even wt riders like brajkovic at nationals (itt) then he went to euskaltel and had to clean up and he sucked big time. I gues he tried some in the summer as his riding was pathetic.

vrecer is a great transfer

http://forum.cyclingnews.com/showthread.php?p=1062001&highlight=vrecer#post1062001

 

[DirtyWorks]

Hmmm. What a surprise. Another low-ranking athlete positive.

Still, that's a pretty strong indicator Testosterone as a PED must be quite popular.
Get back to me when they run exogenous Testoterone screens on elite riders AND an elite with a strong fan base gets sanctioned.

Does anyone know if the UCI was the anti-doping authority at the Tour of Poland? (likely) Was it Poland's anti-doping authority?(not likely) The Polish cycling federation? (not likely) The race promoter? (not likely)

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

http://forum.cyclingnews.com/showthread.php?p=1062001&highlight=vrecer#post1062001

I didn;'t know he doped at the time. I give most riders the benefit of the doubt until proven otherwise like what happened now

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Lol at Euskaltel's signings.

Well, they signed a bunch of people who'd picked up WT points mostly out of weak field races in isolated scenes. The likelihoods were that they'd either be totally out of their depth at the World Tour level like happened with Zargari at Ag2r and Chaoufi, or that they'd been doping on those scenes. Vrečer scoring his best results into his 30s having never been on a top 2 tier team should have been all the red flags they needed; at least Serebryakov was young.

Ag2r went the "whoever we can get" policy like Euskaltel in 2012, with Shpilevsky, Zargari and Gazvoda, none of whom did any better than Euskaltel's 2013 signings; in 2013 perhaps keen to avoid the same mistake of desperation signings to escape relegation from the WT they seemingly spent a bunch more money on getting more proven talents... not an approach that was open to Euskaltel for 2014 of course even if they wanted the opportunity to leech off Fernando Alonso which could have afforded them that.

I mean, I'm genuinely surprised nobody gave Rutkiewicz a World Tour ride in 2013. Plenty of points, proven results-getter, consistently scoring well in the albeit fairly self-contained Polish scene, and by this point he's actually allowed back in France. I mean, bearing in mind a bunch of signings of athletes with World Tour points from dubious means at some dubious races took place, you'd have thought a guy who's not that much more dubious but is much more proven against legitimate opposition could have got a ride.

 

[proffate]

Clomiphene normalizes testosterone levels in individuals with low T (due to overtraining, as a side effect of steroid abuse, or for other reasons). It's quite a bit different from plain old T in that it can't achieve supraphysiological levels of serum T. It's also very easy to detect with a long glow time. So it's a surprising choice, even if it was used in conjunction with other drugs, i.e. its purpose was to restart endogenous T production. However it's extremely cheap, easy to administer (oral), and safe, so maybe he was just banking on not being tested. I guess he didn't have the $$$ for the advanced stuff.