Doping git thread

[oldroadman]

Just for interest, I had a look at the UKAD site. 46 current suspensions, including 1 cycling (JTL), 5 athletics, most of the rest from both codes of rugby. then a few usual suspects, weightlifters, wrestlers, etc . It leads me to wonder, which UK sport has the problem? What is aslo interesting is that most of the 45 non-cycling sanctions are people at much lower level than elite. Which means - I don't know - but not many top performers in any of the sports mentioned must be 100% clean all the time, I hope.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Just for interest, I had a look at the UKAD site. 46 current suspensions, including 1 cycling (JTL), 5 athletics, most of the rest from both codes of rugby. then a few usual suspects, weightlifters, wrestlers, etc . It leads me to wonder, which UK sport has the problem? What is aslo interesting is that most of the 45 non-cycling sanctions are people at much lower level than elite. Which means - I don't know - but not many top performers in any of the sports mentioned must be 100% clean all the time, I hope.

From the doping in other sports thread:

Saw this on Twitter yesterday...
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Are you Richard Moore?

 

[BSRU]

Astana
http://velonews.competitor.com/2014/11/news/fourth-astana-rider-turns-doping-positive_353629

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

It just goes from bad to worse for that poor Vinokourov chap. Looks like he thinks there's one more to come...

 

[rich p]

Poor Vino is just plagued by bad luck.
It puts Cookson and the UCI in a position they'd probably rather not be.

 

[SWSteve]

I thought they're all acting independently of the team?

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

It's certainly worth keeping en eye on the provisional suspension list just now!

 

[rich p]

Astana are "shocked and disappointed" which proves that it's not a team strategy and simply lots of independent renegades

 

[oldroadman]

Hmm, one from the world tour team, one from the pro-conti team, obviously unrelated and no connection with any team ethos, or it's management. Must be disappointing for Vino and the rest of his support staff. Licence commission decisions for 2015 gets more interesting - court here we come?

 

[thom]

Grauniad "Big Interview" with Vincenzo Nibali:
‘Today if cyclists are doping, they will be caught’

 

[Bollo]

Grauniad "Big Interview" with Vincenzo Nibali:
‘Today if cyclists are doping, they will be caught’

Is there a more chilling phrase than
"Our sponsors in Kazakhstan weren't happy at all"

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Grauniad "Big Interview" with Vincenzo Nibali:
‘Today if cyclists are doping, they will be caught’

Aye, you will be, Vinnie.

 

[ColinJ]

Is there a more chilling phrase than
"Our sponsors in Kazakhstan weren't happy at all"

Well, it is slightly better than "We will be shot for getting caught"!

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

It's time the UCI refused Astana a team licence. And even if they don't, the organisers of the Grand Tours should be refusing them entry.

 

[smutchin]

the organisers of the Grand Tours should be refusing them entry.

The GTs can't refuse them entry if they have a WT licence.