Scott SoCal said:Lifetime ban, eh?
Stinkypits is done.
Das ist schade.
Does Sinkewitz have a rider nickname?
So-Cals Stinkypits might do..
or Sinking-Wits
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Scott SoCal said:Lifetime ban, eh?
Stinkypits is done.
skippy said:German TV must have read the mail and jumped ship whilst waiting for this latest creature to stick a head above the parapet !
Will lend a stamp to the German Federation if it will help them avoid behaving like the spanish !
Life ban please , Mc Queasy needs to bite the bullet and get his act together and start the 4 yr bans for first offence and lifetime for second !
Olympic Cycling is starting to look as though it will not survive beyond 2012 the way some of these cretins are continuing to practise "Sporting Fraud" .
That doesn't make sense. Going after him now only reminds everybody of Sinkewitz and of what he said back then, not to mention it creates the possibility of Patrik speaking out again. If they wanted to get rid of him, they'd have figured something out at the time of his first ban, like with Kohl, or they'd have blacklisted him for real. UCI is not a gang of supervillains, they don't do this kind of thing for evil's sake when it's detrimental to their own interests.Hugh Januss said:Why that is not a true statement.
UCI does not like guys who tell the truth about doping.
Hi Ryo,Ryo Hazuki said:seriously what a load of crap. the uci doesn't care about which rider or what. these aren't the days of lance armstrong anymore and the uci is scared as s*it. why do you think they trie to nail contador?? it's the biggest risk they ever took and it's probably not even going to work. Can't believe people really believing these conspiracy theory's. sinkewitz was an unimportant rider now. they just had him on the radar like they had with colom, lobato, valjavec and pellizotti not a personal vendetta against them
“The positive GH test in cycling is encouraging,” Pr Dine told Cyclingnews. “Perhaps the athletes who used that will be scared and will change their habits.” But the French expert is cautious too: “The GH test is still complicated to do and we still have to strongly target the athletes. What is more, the IGF-1 test is even more subtle...”
He was targeted for HGH test?hrotha said:That doesn't make sense. Going after him now only reminds everybody of Sinkewitz and of what he said back then, not to mention it creates the possibility of Patrik speaking out again. If they wanted to get rid of him, they'd have figured something out at the time of his first ban, like with Kohl, or they'd have blacklisted him for real. UCI is not a gang of supervillains, they don't do this kind of thing for evil's sake when it's detrimental to their own interests.
“The positive GH test in cycling is encouraging,” Pr Dine told Cyclingnews. “Perhaps the athletes who used that will be scared and will change their habits.” But the French expert is cautious too: “The GH test is still complicated to do and we still have to strongly target the athletes. What is more, the IGF-1 test is even more subtle...”
sniper said:If, for the sake of the argument, we give Sinkewitz the benefit of the doubt, his positive could point to a team program, viz. team doctors juicing their riders without them knowing. I mean, could he really have been that stupid?
Will be interesting to hear Sinkewitz's position on the positive and whether he asks for the B-probe.
Maybe they had reasons to think he was suspicious? Should they have looked the other way because if they nailed Sinkewitz people would think funny things about the UCI? HGH is very hard to find, as you say. What makes you think his samples were the only ones to be tested? Maybe he just was unlucky?Escarabajo said:He was targeted for HGH test?
Do you think he was the only one using HGH? or the only one whose use showed in the Biopassport?
Trust me I don't like the stupid conspiracy theories more than you do but I don't understand why this guy falls for a drug that is so difficult to catch, so widespread in the peloton and whose test is so complicated and expensive.
hrotha said:Maybe they had reasons to think he was suspicious? Should they have looked the other way because if they nailed Sinkewitz people would think funny things about the UCI? HGH is very hard to find, as you say. What makes you think his samples were the only ones to be tested? Maybe he just was unlucky?
Conspiracy theories tend to fail in that they never provide a motive for the crime. But the motive is crucial. A generic "they don't like Sinkewitz" won't do when they're harming themselves in the process.
JPM London said:Or maybe it's even as simple as the doctor in the article said - when they believe the drug can't be detected it's easy to become careless...
Fair enough.hrotha said:Maybe they had reasons to think he was suspicious? Should they have looked the other way because if they nailed Sinkewitz people would think funny things about the UCI? HGH is very hard to find, as you say. What makes you think his samples were the only ones to be tested? Maybe he just was unlucky?
Conspiracy theories tend to fail in that they never provide a motive for the crime. But the motive is crucial. A generic "they don't like Sinkewitz" won't do when they're harming themselves in the process.
That explains why Radioshack riders were tested every day in Paris-Nice.webvan said:8 to 24 hours detection window apparently, not a lot to worry about then...
Andynonomous said:Because growth hormone works slowly, it generally isn't used in-competition. HGH is usually taken between events, and a steroid "booster" is used just before, or in-competition.
Because HGH clears the system quickly and is generally used out of competition, only the sloppiest, or most unlucky users will get caught.
HGH doesn't improve sports performance: study
Posted Mon Jun 4, 2007 6:15am AEST
Updated Mon Jun 4, 2007 6:16am AEST
Australian scientists have found that taking supplements of human growth hormones (HGH) does not improve sports performance.
Scientists at Sydney's Garvan Institute gave 100 weekend athletes supplements of either HGH, testosterone or a placebo.
Anne Nelson, from the Garvan Institute, says they have developed a sophisticated new test which can detect HGH and testosterone in athletes weeks after they have taken the substances.
Dr Nelson says taking both supplements made a difference to performance, but HGH on its own had no effect.
"People should think twice about using human growth hormone, because in our study, using high but safe doses, we could find no effect on muscle mass or sports performance," she said.
The results are being presented today at an international medical conference in Canada.
Race Radio said:It has been commonly used during stage races for well over a decade.
2beeDammed said:
Growth hormone significantly increased sprint capacity (and more than double that) when coadministered with testosterone to men; other performance measures did not significantly change. The increase in sprint capacity was not maintained 6 weeks after discontinuation of the drug.
(AND)
Growth hormone dosage may have been lower than that used covertly by competitive athletes
Race Radio said:It has been commonly used during stage races for well over a decade.
Andynonomous said:Maybe riders are mis-informed about the benefits ?
I am pretty sure growth hormones by themselves will give no short term "boost". That is why it is administered in tennis weeks before competition, then boosted with steroids in-competition (look up Rafael Nadal and "PRP").