Weight

[coinneach]

This subject crops up in just about every thread, from Induran in the past to Froome & Dumolin in the present.

Anybody else for weighing ALL the riders at the start of a GT, and the top 10 at the end (start of the last day) and publishing this factual info at the end of the race?
Why hide? It's surely less invasive than taking blood samples?
And data could be kept hidden from other teams in case it gives an unfair advantage.

If the UCI want us the believe in cycling, they really are going to have to come with more info than "never tested positive."

 

[Dear Wiggo]

They used to. I think they stopped because transparency.

 

[42x16ss]

The riders used to get weighed in the compulsory pre GT medical check. They also measured height and sedentary heart rate.

Is this still done? Because if so, it's another another bullet in a certain riders claims...

 

[Dear Wiggo]

Re:

The riders used to get weighed in the compulsory pre GT medical check. They also measured height and sedentary heart rate.

Is this still done? Because if so, it's another another bullet in a certain riders claims...

No I think it stopped around the time Armstrong had Bordry ousted from the Tour.

 

[Catwhoorg]

Start of any WT event (the day before if necessary) and every rest day in a GT.

 

[42x16ss]

Re: Re:

The riders used to get weighed in the compulsory pre GT medical check. They also measured height and sedentary heart rate.

Is this still done? Because if so, it's another another bullet in a certain riders claims...

No I think it stopped around the time Armstrong had Bordry ousted from the Tour.

Ok, but still, this is the program of obligatory examinations every rider on a WT and PC team MUST complete before the end of January, two weeks before UCI categorised competition:

http://www.uci.ch/mm/Document/News/CleanSport/16/76/80/ProgrammeofobligatoryMM2013ROADE_English.pdf

Note the annual requirements:

 A sport medicine interview and clinical examination;
 A blood test including:
o SODIUM
o POTASSIUM
o CHLORIDE
o CALCIUM
o UREE
o GLUCOSE
o TOTAL CHOLESTEROL
o HDL CHOLESTEROL
o TRIGLYCERIDES
o TSH
o FULL BLOOD COUNT
o RETICULOCYTES
o C-REACTIVE-PROTEIN or SEDIMENTATION RATE
o FERRITIN
o yGT
o ALAT (GPT)
o ASAT (GOT)
o TOTAL BILIRUBIN
o ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE
o CPK
o CREATININE
o TOTAL PROTEINS or ALBUMIN
o TOTAL TESTOSTERONE
o BASAL CORTISOL
 A cardiological questionnaire
 An electrocardiogram (12 leads)
 A urinary stick

Then in the 2nd, 3rd and 4th quarters you need to have:

 A sport medicine interview and clinical examination;
 A blood test including:
o FULL BLOOD COUNT
o RETICULOCYTES
o ALAT (GPT)
o ASAT (GOT)
o CREATININE
o C-REACTIVE-PROTEIN or SEDIMENTATION RATE
o FERRITIN
o TOTAL TESTOSTERONE
o BASAL CORTISOL

How would that not include weight?

Edit: Curiously, athletes with asthma must complete a cardio pulmonary test each year. Wasn't there a thread about cardio pulmonary tests recently?

 

[Dear Wiggo]

I think they used to have to do quarterly tests? They were certainly discussing it around the time JV was being a *** towards Trent Lowe.

 

[42x16ss]

Re:

I think they used to have to do quarterly tests? They were certainly discussing it around the time JV was being a *** towards Trent Lowe.

They do. Every two years they have to do the full heart tests, every year they do the first list, every quarter the second. Every test includes a physical exam.

 

[doperhopper]

This subject crops up in just about every thread, from Induran in the past to Froome & Dumolin in the present.

Anybody else for weighing ALL the riders at the start of a GT, and the top 10 at the end (start of the last day) and publishing this factual info at the end of the race?
Why hide? It's surely less invasive than taking blood samples?
And data could be kept hidden from other teams in case it gives an unfair advantage.

If the UCI want us the believe in cycling, they really are going to have to come with more info than "never tested positive."

Sure, weight passport would be quite difficult to beat (well, drink 2 liters of water), especially if you keep it since teenage years. But if they start now, when everyone is marginally lighter with sub-five pct of body fat...

 

[Lyon]

Re:

The riders used to get weighed in the compulsory pre GT medical check. They also measured height and sedentary heart rate.

Is this still done? Because if so, it's another another bullet in a certain riders claims...

Froome has never been tested in a weight-tunnel before.