Transfusion points??

[Anonymous]

Do you have any idea how many pills cyclists are swallowing during an average grand tour day? It's a lot more convenient to just inject them, and that's what they used to do until they made it illegal.

Do you have any idea how prevalent blood doping was at that time?

 

[Alpe d'Huez]

I was about to add in that it was the 98 Giro not the 99 Giro, because Marco was banned in 99. You beat me to it.

Actually, Marco was dominating the '99 Giro, and two days from the finish in Milan he crushed everyone on back to back mountain stages culminating at the Madonna di Campiglio and had actually "earned" all three leaders jerseys at that point. But that night the vampires came, his hct was too high, and the rest is history.

The photo was so obscure, I figured it to be from '99, not '98. But I was incorrect.

Recommend anyone wanting to know about needles, IV's and drips from the "good old days" to read Willy Voet's excellent book, Breaking the Chain.

 

[quiensabe]

Breaking the Chain

Actually, Marco was dominating the '99 Giro, and two days from the finish in Milan he crushed everyone on back to back mountain stages culminating at the Madonna di Campiglio and had actually "earned" all three leaders jerseys at that point. But that night the vampires came, his hct was too high, and the rest is history.

The photo was so obscure, I figured it to be from '99, not '98. But I was incorrect.

Recommend anyone wanting to know about needles, IV's and drips from the "good old days" to read Willy Voet's excellent book, Breaking the Chain.

Yes, it's a very revealing book. It also has Emma's statement about her makeup being too pale for LA's skin tone, so he sent her out to buy cover-up makeup base, to hide needlemarks that would, he said "be misinterpreted by the press" - or words to that effect.

 

[iainf72]

One of Ashenden's proposals is to photograph the possible tranfusion points daily for evidence of recent naughtiness

Cheap and easy.

 

[Galic Ho]

He is the same.

Cheers. Question was on my mind and wanted to know. His name is not that uncommon that two people cannot share it. I mean there is a Bob Stapleton and a Bill Stapleton involved in cycling. Most people don't know whom either is, let alone there are two with very similar names. Thanks for clearing that up for me. I assumed he was, just needed clarification as I was not into cycling when Motorola was around.

 

[Galic Ho]

Actually, Marco was dominating the '99 Giro, and two days from the finish in Milan he crushed everyone on back to back mountain stages culminating at the Madonna di Campiglio and had actually "earned" all three leaders jerseys at that point. But that night the vampires came, his hct was too high, and the rest is history.

The photo was so obscure, I figured it to be from '99, not '98. But I was incorrect.

Recommend anyone wanting to know about needles, IV's and drips from the "good old days" to read Willy Voet's excellent book, Breaking the Chain.

As my previous post said, I didn't really follow cycling religiously then so I've had to fill in the gaps. I've seen the footage of Marco outside of court in a doco claiming it was all a mistake, but figured the blood test came before the Giro started. The doco wasn't clear, Liggett was commentating. Plus it was a Lance doco, so that may be why. That really is bad luck. Or poor planning, depending on which side of the fence one sits.

 

[Galic Ho]

Do you have any idea how many pills cyclists are swallowing during an average grand tour day? It's a lot more convenient to just inject them, and that's what they used to do until they made it illegal.

You're not ex pro Patrick Jonkers are you?

 

[poupou]

One of Ashenden's proposals is to photograph the possible tranfusion points daily for evidence of recent naughtiness

Cheap and easy.

Good idea.


Or they can check randomly 20 riders each day, before any injection, doctors should record their injection (date, hour, medicine, injection point) by cellphone or internet. (Or request agreement ? Do it in a common area with supervison?)