I personally, would demand the last 4-5 winners and runners up submit to doping tests on the spot unannounced. I would also begin filing lawsuits against guys like AC/Wonderboy/Floyd/etc, for monies lost.
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Dear Wiggo said:So what's the loss? I don't see any.
I was regularly between 48 and 50 percent at rest,” he said. "Since my body has adapted to training and competing on the road. I've come down to around 45 or 47 percent
It's thanks to that [the biological passport] that cycling has become human again. But I'm always apprehensive about being wrongly accused one day
86TDFWinner said:If you were a 100% "clean" rider, and you were getting beaten by known dopers, and questionable dopers, I would think your attitude and opinions on winning, finishing, them taking potential monies out of your pockets for cheating, etc., would be different than they are now.
Just my opinion.
del1962 said:What a generally thought of clean cyclist has said
Bumeington said:The adaptation to cycling on the road lower blood levels thing doesn't really make any sense to me, unless he's putting in significantly more hours now compared to MTB days
Dear Wiggo said:How would putting in more hours explain a lowering of Hct? Purely through increased BV expansion?
Dear Wiggo said:Huh? I think you might have misunderstood my post? I was asking what do you lose if you release data?
I am really struggling to see what your post has to do with anything I wrote at all.
del1962 said:What a generally thought of clean cyclist has said
armchairclimber said:So, imagine you are a GT winning rider who is clean (a stretch for some of you, I know, but go with it).... what exactly should you say when two of your team mates have been popped for EPO use, steroid abuse or whatever? What could be said that wouldn't be lampooned in the clinic?
McLovin said:You should build me a friggin statue! I just won a Tour in a sport full of dopers. I'm surprised i wasn't dropped on the climbs by those two Judas .
armchairclimber said:Yep, like that....though I still think it might attract ridicule.
armchairclimber said:It is, though, exactly what the clean winner would say if he was also a clinic member. In fact, he could probably round it of by saying "I truly can't believe I've done that".
B_Ugli said:I think that this all depends on what your definition of clean is.
The way I see it (and probably the way Pro Cycling categorize it) there are different levels of clean:
Clean 1 (Armstrong): I have never tested positive and passed all my tests. Therefore I am clean........sort of.
Clean 2 (Frank Schleck/Contador): What I tested positive for was a negligible amount/not of any performance enhancing benefit. Therefore I am clean..........sort of.
Clean 3 (Team Sky): We are doing everything according to the rules but if the public knew what "legal" methods we were using they would question the ethics. Therefore I am clean..........sort of.
Clean 4 (Public's View): No performance enhancement legal or otherwise to the human body. Diet largely normal with the exception of totally natural recovery products available at your local grocery store to the general public. Therefore I am genuinely CLEAN.
I very much doubt that most Pro-Cyclists fall into Category 4 above, certainly at the highest levels of the sport.
What they should be saying is exactly what I have described in Category 4 and to my mind the only rider who comes even close to saying this is David Moncoutie.
Really ?Benotti69 said:While Moncoutie may have given this impression, apparently that was not the reality......
Benotti69 said:While Moncoutie may have given this impression, apparently that was not the reality......
B_Ugli said:Clean 3 (Team Sky): We are doing everything according to the rules but if the public knew what "legal" methods we were using they would question the ethics. Therefore I am clean..........sort of.
: I have never tested positive and passed all my tests. Therefore I am clean........sort of.
lllludo said:Really ?
Develop please .... is your assumption based on his level of performance ?
ah ok if Raceradio say so then it must be true ....Benotti69 said:raceradio is the man who dispelled Moncoutie as panyagua
lllludo said:ah ok if Raceradio say so then it must be true ....
on the other hand Gaumont said (and wrote) that in his entire Cofidis career there are only 2 guys who never took, spoke, had suspicious behaviours regarding drugs: Tombak and Moncoutie. He said he was not 100% sure about Tombak but he was with Moncoutie.
Gaumont is just one guys among many who said the same thing about Moncoutie but Gaumont was exteremely aware of doping and honest in his confession because he left cycling after 2004.
But may be Moncoutie started doping after 2004... may be we will find his name in the Ferrari files... may be he had a special doping protocol he activated every year for Mont Faron and the Vuelta