Doping git thread

[Dogtrousers]

Armstrong slightly less banned
http://road.cc/content/news/204116-lance-armstrong-slightly-less-banned
Can do triathlon if he wants.

 

[rich p]

Armstrong slightly less banned
http://road.cc/content/news/204116-lance-armstrong-slightly-less-banned
Can do triathlon if he wants.

I liked this comment...

"He is currently looking to start up a new endurance-based venture called WEDU"

The clean version will be called WEDONT.

 

[mjr]

"Lance Armstrong: Stop At Nothing" on Bike Channel UK 2045-2230 Sunday. I think it's been shown on another channel before BICBW.

 

[marinyork]

It's also available on netflix if anyone was interested.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Samuele Conti (Wilier-Southeast) provisionally suspended after testing positive for growth hormone

http://www.gazzetta.it/Ciclismo/16-09-2016/doping-samuele-conti-positivo-sospeso-17076496457.shtml

 

[mjr]

Samuele Conti (Wilier-Southeast) provisionally suspended after testing positive for growth hormone
http://www.gazzetta.it/Ciclismo/16-09-2016/doping-samuele-conti-positivo-sospeso-17076496457.shtml

That's the same Southeast that left MPCC in disgrace over its mishandling of doping so not a big surprise...

 

[Dogtrousers]

An article on glucocorticoids from 2013. I hope it's not too out of date on the subject of regulations. I found it informative/interesting
http://www.biscuittinmedia.com/alejandro-marque-cortisone-confusion-tour-of-portugal-2013/

 

[smutchin]

That's the same Southeast that left MPCC in disgrace over its mishandling of doping so not a big surprise...

Not to mention several other doping convictions in the past few years - still the same team, even if it keeps changing its name...

2013 - Santambrogio, Di Luca
2014 - Rabottini
2015 - Carretero

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

JTL (remember him?) states that tramadol offered to British Team at Worlds in 2012
http://cyclingtips.com/2016/10/tier...-tramadol-around-at-2012-world-championships/

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

4 year ban for Danielson (remember him too?)
http://cyclingtips.com/2016/10/four...ur-year-sanction-for-contaminated-supplement/

 

[smutchin]

“There was a time I rode the World Championships and we were offered a painkiller called Tramadol,” he told the BBC.

For 'Tramadol' read 'Thunderbird'

For 'rode the World Championships' read 'was sleeping on a park bench'

For 'the BBC' read 'my besht mate... hic!'

 

[rich p]

For 'Tramadol' read 'Thunderbird'

For 'rode the World Championships' read 'was sleeping on a park bench'

For 'the BBC' read 'my besht mate... hic!'

Or, ' I was offered a legal substance, which is still legal, but declined as I was up to my eyeballs on epo and off my face on testosterone'

 

[brommers]

MPCC Report - covers all sports
http://www.mpcc.fr/index.php/en/news-uk/item/534-doping-in-2016-was-not-only-about-russia

 

[Dogtrousers]

I never really understood the MPCC. Seems like a good idea - for example as a means for pro teams to interact with WADA over issues like corticoids and tramadol. But often (on here, at least) it's dismissed as a PR exercise; voluntary, optional and toothless. Orica, Katusha and Astana left or got booted out, variously. Sky declined to join as it wasn't as sufficiently devoted to the anti doping cause and didn't go far enough Yet there are still several teams who take it seriously enough to remain.

 

[oldroadman]

I never really understood the MPCC. Seems like a good idea - for example as a means for pro teams to interact with WADA over issues like corticoids and tramadol. But often (on here, at least) it's dismissed as a PR exercise; voluntary, optional and toothless. Orica, Katusha and Astana left or got booted out, variously. Sky declined to join as it wasn't as sufficiently devoted to the anti doping cause and didn't go far enough Yet there are still several teams who take it seriously enough to remain.

It's simply a club of certain pro teams using it as a PR exercise - "oh look at us we are all ever so clean". So that's all right then. They have no mandate except their own and don't seem to have managed to influence WADA, so what's the point?
The rules are what they are, Tramadol and Corticosteroids are on a WADA "watch list", which possibly means they are gathering test data before coming to an evidence based conclusion. Let's hope they reach the right one, although remember WADA is across all sports and some have more reason than others not to want both substances put on the banned list.
Anyone for tennis/footy/rugby/track&field?