Basecase said:How is Team Wiggins funded?
List of sponsors on the website - possibly not the full story but generally a good place to start with pro cycling teams
http://teamwiggins.co/
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Basecase said:How is Team Wiggins funded?
samhocking said:gillan1969 said:samhocking said:thehog said:samhocking said:I know its history thanks. What you don't get, is that any anti-doping violation or investigation can only ever be a legal matter. The fact UCI seemingly want to investigate a team ethically for receiving a TUE they granted and WADA have not yet questioned UCI for yet to turn it into an anti-doping violation, means WADA will side with Sky if it came to that point, because as the committee and ukad concluded there have been no rule violations found, therefore legally there's really not much for UCI to fight with against Sky if that's what Lappartient wishes to do. If we add Lequipes comments the TUEs have already been investigated by CADF, it's difficult to understand what Lappartient is going on about without further evidence the TUE is either fraudulent for UCI to launch what will now be essentially a 3rd organisation investigating Team Sky for wrong-doing, the odds are very slim. I would say legally difficult to even try and have WADA on your side if it went to CAS to battle out the legitimacy of the TUE application regardless of UCI authorising it in fact. You could very well see WADA siding with Sky on this.
You’ve got to stop using what is “legally” correct in this context. There is no law being applied here. It’s purely a rule based system and that is all. Unless it was taken to the Europe Court after CAS, common law or any other law will not be applied, until then CAS, UCI etc. can fairly much interpret their own rules how they want, there is no legal precedence involved.
An ADRV is a legal matter based on WADA rules. Nothing more, nothing less. Clearly i'm not using the term 'legal' in a criminal sense unless this goes beyond WADA and into that area, which there is no sign of yet anyway.
Armstrong have any ADRVs?
Armstrong doesn't relate to Wiggins TUE whatsoever. Wiggins TUE is neither backdated, nor intra-articular, nor a cream or even an AAF, but directly applied for as intra-muscular to UCI, not backdated by UCI to cover for an intra-muscular disguised as a cream under TUE.
thehog said:samhocking said:Changing the topic there guys, what Lappartient has said has nothing to do with Cookson. The issue is Lappartient has confirmed he wishes to investigate Sky's ethics using CADF (Anti-Doping). He is in for an impossible ride. He will actually be investigating himself because it was the UCI that granted the TUE if the TUE is decided to be unethical.
Hi only way out legally, will be Wiggins team fabricated the whole asthma an allergy 'story'. The problem in doing so, is that trail goes all the way back to French Federation when they were issuing TUEs to Wigins for Corticosteroids too, as well as the Olympic Committee. Lappartient will essentially be investigating the ethics of French Federation, Olympic Committee and UCI in order to prove Wiggins asthma and allergy is fabricated.
Huh? The French Federation? Wigins?
noddy69 said:Off topic a bit but he still got away with what was effectively a TUE....if it wasn't accepted he wouldn't have.StyrbjornSterki said:Pharmstrong never had a TUE, backdated or otherwise. This is one of the myriad Pharmstrong myths.samhocking said:Armstrong doesn't relate to Wiggins TUE whatsoever. Wiggins TUE is neither backdated, nor intra-articular, nor a cream or even an AAF, but directly applied for as intra-muscular to UCI, not backdated by UCI to cover for an intra-muscular disguised as a cream under TUE.
In the case of the 1999 positives for corticosteroids, all he offered in his defence was a backdated prescription from a crooked doctor. In its "Reasoned Decision," USADA detailed that Hein Verbruggen charged Emile Vrijman to conduct a sham investigation and clear Pharmstrong of all charges. This undoubtedly was done because UCI were still feeling the sting from the previous year's Festina scandal, and probably also because Pharmstrong offered the sport's best ever chance to break into the USA sports market.
Had Pharmstrong had even a quasi-legitimate TUE, no such theatrics would have been necessary.
The point needed making because A. it is elemental to understanding that UCI were not merely tacitly complicit but were active co-conspirators, and B. if you don't beat back every element of the Pharmstrong catechism each and every time the fanbois attempt to resurrect it, in time it will assume them mantle of truth. And next you know, his history is rehabilitated and come to find out he was hard done by.noddy69 said:Off topic a bit but he still got away with what was effectively a TUE....if it wasn't accepted he wouldn't have.
samhocking said:thehog said:samhocking said:Changing the topic there guys, what Lappartient has said has nothing to do with Cookson. The issue is Lappartient has confirmed he wishes to investigate Sky's ethics using CADF (Anti-Doping). He is in for an impossible ride. He will actually be investigating himself because it was the UCI that granted the TUE if the TUE is decided to be unethical.
Hi only way out legally, will be Wiggins team fabricated the whole asthma an allergy 'story'. The problem in doing so, is that trail goes all the way back to French Federation when they were issuing TUEs to Wigins for Corticosteroids too, as well as the Olympic Committee. Lappartient will essentially be investigating the ethics of French Federation, Olympic Committee and UCI in order to prove Wiggins asthma and allergy is fabricated.
Huh? The French Federation? Wigins?
Yes, that's how you got TUE before UCI and WADA. You got them from your National Federation, or for Olympics. from Olympic Comittee. Wiggins has several TUEs for asthma an allergy substances before WADA from French Cycling Federation when he raced on French teams. That's what I mean, French Federation (who issued him the TUEs in Cofidis & FdeJ) and Olympic Commitee (issued for Olympic TUEs) are essentially involved in Wiggins TUE, simply if you wanted to look at how believable Wiggins asthma and allergies history really is. The evidence trail goes back to FdeJ basically when he got his first TUEs for Asthma in 2002/3 before WADA & Zorzoli.
yaco said:Nothing like Sam to provide some facts in the middle of overblown hysteria - Gotta think Sam has some loose connections with BC or the cycling peleton.
yaco said:Nothing like Sam to provide some facts in the middle of overblown hysteria - Gotta think Sam has some loose connections with BC or the cycling peleton.
ruamruam said:yaco said:Nothing like Sam to provide some facts in the middle of overblown hysteria - Gotta think Sam has some loose connections with BC or the cycling peleton.
Maybe not so loose. He does seem to spend an awful lot of time defencing BC and Sky
pastronef said:ruamruam said:yaco said:Nothing like Sam to provide some facts in the middle of overblown hysteria - Gotta think Sam has some loose connections with BC or the cycling peleton.
Maybe not so loose. He does seem to spend an awful lot of time defencing BC and Sky
he made a list of all the medical asthma-allergy related history of Wiggins career. kudos to him, he didnt throw accusations or guessed about the contents of jiffy bags or whatever.
he wrote a list. he spend an awful lot of time depending, others spend an awful lot of time accusing. that´s what The Clinic is made for I think.
TourOfSardinia said:sam that's one impressive sleuthing on Wiggo allergy history - respect!
Merckx index said:TourOfSardinia said:sam that's one impressive sleuthing on Wiggo allergy history - respect!
Yeah, thanks Sam, this is good stuff. I appreciate the time and effort it must have taken to gather all that. And as a sidelight, it reveals information that FB, for whatever reason, did not find or at least publish.
During the interview, Wiggins explained that while he had suffered from an allergy to pollen for some time, it wasn’t until the 2003 Giro d’Italia, his first ever Grand Tour, that he first felt it had impacted his ability to race. Wiggins was forced to leave the race following stage 18 after missing the time cut.
“When I had a severe attack, the day after I was wiped out,” he said before going into the details of the attack. “[It is] uncontrollable sneezing, runny nose, watery eyes, the urge to rub my eyes constantly, and in doing that the eyes becoming bloodshot … extreme. My breathing became restricted, like breathing through a straw at times.”
After the incident, Wiggins went to see British Cycling Dr Roger Pelfreeman, who would remain his medical point of contact until the spring of 2010 when he left the organisation. Dr Richard Freeman would come on board to replace him, working at both British Cycling and Team Sky, which made its debut that season. Wiggins says that the decision to stick with Dr Palfreeman was one of continuity as he moved around teams. Under his advice, Wiggins went under a series of tests.
“The results… were sent to the UCI and he pushed hard with the French Federation – I was racing for a French team at that time – and the UCI. I’m not sure what it would have been called, but it was the equivalent of today’s TUE,” he explained. “Back then at a pro team it would be written in your health book, it would be for two inhalers, fluticasone and salbutamol – it was the red inhaler basically. It was all agreed, stamped off and sent to the French Federation.
“In 2004 I went through the same process again, but I needed authorisation to compete at the summer Olympics under IOC doping regulations. So I had to complete another series of lung function tests, at the Manchester velodrome conducted by Andrea Wooles, who was in charge of that.
“Again, I did the lung function tests, all was well, and I got authorisation from the IOC. From 2005 to 2008 those applications were renewed each January to cover me for the season.”
Wiggins received three TUEs during the 2008 season, one in June and two in December. All were for 12 months and included varying dosages for Salbutamol. The last of the three, issued on December 16, also included the corticosteroid Budesonide and the β2-agonist Formoterol, which are often used together to combat asthma. That would run until the end of 2009, but when Wiggins joined Team Sky in 2010, he didn’t apply for a TUE.
“It wasn’t suggested to me,” he explained. “Aside from complaining about the normal symptoms – 'I’m on Clarityn, can you give me some of that, have we got loads on the race when we go to the Giro or the Tour? Can we have the nasal spray that I’m on? Just checking the usual stuff, eye drops, red inhalers, blue salbutamol inhalers' – never at any point was it suggested that we go and see a specialist.”
Wiggins says that he continued using over the counter hayfever products but suffered was affected badly by his allergies. The following season, 2011, he avoided any symptoms until racing at the Bayern Rundfahrt at the end of May where he says he ‘had quite a vicious attack.’ It wasn’t until the Dauphine in June that he met with Dr Freeman, who suggested he see a specialist. Following a training camp and the British national championships, Wiggins went to see a specialist on June 28, four days before the start of that year’s Tour de France. The application would be granted, with the date of June 29.
“I saw the specialist, he did a full examination of me, blood tests, this that and the other, I went home, and he compiled his report for Richard Freeman,” Wiggins said. “That’s the report he made to Richard Freeman. Upon doing that, the medication he suggested in there would need an application for a TUE. I was still unaware at this stage of what was happening because it was the first time I’d seen a specialist. Richard called me and said: 'you’ve been granted authorisation for a TUE based on seeing Dr Hargreaves' and that was that. He showed me the TUE application; he showed me the TUE certificate, and it was administered.
In 2012, Wiggins did not suffer any symptoms until he returned to racing following a training camp in Tenerife.
“Then I came back end of May, started to get the onset of symptoms then, once I was back home, we live surrounded by fields and woods, flowers and things so straight away I’d come out of that bubble in Tenerife and was straight into the onset of symptoms. Started all the usual, Clarityn, this that and the other, went to the Dauphiné, symptoms carried on as per usual, won the Dauphiné.”
The second TUE for Triamcinolone acetonide, also known as Kenalog, was issued some time after the Dauphine, in the week leading up to the Tour de France. A third one was issued at the end of April the following season. That’s where the TUEs stop for Wiggins, who says that his early racing schedule meant that he avoided any serious symptoms in 2014, and his decision to move to the track later that season also played a major factor.
“ was training indoors most of the time. I wasn’t displaying the symptoms, or they weren’t problematic, it wasn’t a huge issue other than going out on the road around here using Clarityn, eyedrops. I was indoors, I wasn’t having problems with my breathing, I wasn’t complaining about it, I didn’t need to go and see a specialist or anything.
“It was the same in 2015. I knew I’d finish at Paris-Roubaix, I knew I’d go and do the Hour Record project, and 90% of that is going to be indoors... it wasn’t a problem.”
yaco said:Nothing like Sam to provide some facts in the middle of overblown hysteria - Gotta think Sam has some loose connections with BC or the cycling peleton.
Dan2016 said:It should not be forgotten Wiggins' attempt, via Freeman - who was scuppered by more scrupulous team docs - to use Kenalog at the Tour of Britain.
The Devil is in the details.
Wiggo's Package said:Dan2016 said:It should not be forgotten Wiggins' attempt, via Freeman - who was scuppered by more scrupulous team docs - to use Kenalog at the Tour of Britain.
The Devil is in the details.
Sam missed that one off his list for some reason
And Wiggo won that race so was he really ill...
pastronef said:ruamruam said:yaco said:Nothing like Sam to provide some facts in the middle of overblown hysteria - Gotta think Sam has some loose connections with BC or the cycling peleton.
Maybe not so loose. He does seem to spend an awful lot of time defencing BC and Sky
he made a list of all the medical asthma-allergy related history of Wiggins career. kudos to him, he didnt throw accusations or guessed about the contents of jiffy bags or whatever.
he wrote a list. he spend an awful lot of time depending, others spend an awful lot of time accusing. that´s what The Clinic is made for I think.
Wiggo's Package said:Dan2016 said:It should not be forgotten Wiggins' attempt, via Freeman - who was scuppered by more scrupulous team docs - to use Kenalog at the Tour of Britain.
The Devil is in the details.
Sam missed that one off his list for some reason
And Wiggo won that race so was he really ill...
ruamruam said:yaco said:Nothing like Sam to provide some facts in the middle of overblown hysteria - Gotta think Sam has some loose connections with BC or the cycling peleton.
Maybe not so loose. He does seem to spend an awful lot of time defencing BC and Sky
chuuurles said:ruamruam said:yaco said:Nothing like Sam to provide some facts in the middle of overblown hysteria - Gotta think Sam has some loose connections with BC or the cycling peleton.
Maybe not so loose. He does seem to spend an awful lot of time defencing BC and Sky
Does being the president of a cycling club affiliated with BC count ?