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  TechnologyExpert1 year, 1 month ago

  Geez, do these guys just think the tests will fail to show anything, or what?

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    studentambassador1 year, 1 month ago

    They believe in themselves, so there's no way they can lose!

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  CrazyRay1 year, 1 month ago

  This is getting ridiculous

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  quackpot1 year, 1 month ago

  Great athlete and Stupid trainers. What a combo.

  The real heroes in this story are the medical experts that design and perform the tests that strive to keep stupid trainers honest.

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  Shirtless1 year, 1 month ago

  He probably will claim that he received the transfusion without his knowledge.

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  coreyspring1 year, 1 month ago

  Anybody ever see that episode of House...

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  Logan6661 year, 1 month ago

  Never saw this happen to Lance...

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    bequiet1 year, 1 month ago

    Lance was able to pick and choose his races, unlike most riders who have to do all the tours. He was able to come into the Tour de France much fresher than any other rider. And rumours of drugs and pressure on other teams to work with him have always followed him.

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      Logan6661 year, 1 month ago

      Rumors only nothing ever proved...

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        bequiet1 year, 1 month ago

        so if nothing was ever proved then logically you have to say there is not a major problem with doping in cycling. Realistically you and I know that's not true. The majority are probably at it, the big stars generally have bigger budgets and better medical teams with better knowledge to avoid detection.

        Vinokourov was naive at best. Two different blood cells in his system was a dead giveaway. He wasn't necessarily doping but what he did was aginst the rules.

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          Logan6661 year, 1 month ago

          I agree completely there is a problem with cycling and doping. My comment was directed at Lance Armstrongs ability to win 7 tours with no positive drug tests.

          We can only hope that the young stars of the race will see the light and stop continuing this non sense.

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  0gramstransfat1 year, 1 month ago

  "Race director Christian Prudhomme said the case showed that cycling's drug-testing system doesn't work." Funny, it seems to work for everyone who doesn't use banned performance-enhancing procedures and chemicals.

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  bradleywend2talk1 year, 1 month ago

  honestly, i feel sorry for the athletes who use these substances... They may be winning now but they'll be really screwed physically up down the road.

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    fujiubear1 year, 1 month ago

    what vino did, receiving a blood transfusion, doesn't really have any negative effects on the body (assuming its the right type). it does make an endurance athlete perform at a substantially higher level. Even EPO (blood doping) doesn't have any long term consequences. Its the anabolic and catbolic steroids that can really mess you up.

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  IanFraigun1 year, 1 month ago

  Well I for one would like to know which lab handled the tests. Not that I want to forgive someone who broke the rules.

  We saw in the recently finished Floyd Landis hearing the lack of support and lack of proper handling of both samples and equipment by the French lab. If it was that lab I would prefer to see the test results confirmed by a more respected lab, like the one at UCLA in California before we destroy this guys career.

  Seems that the major lab in France has a secondary objective to get at anyone not french in any way they can so hopefully they can ensure a french winner.

  Not playing by the rules of the game on the lab side which of course placed into question any results that come out of that lab.

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    liberty1 year, 1 month ago

    Just so you know, the second lab that confirmed Landis doping was an american lab.

    And then his teamate came forward, and he threaten to put out to the media that his teamate had been sexually molested as a child. This case is much too complicated to say he did not for sure, I prefer waiting the outcome. People don't realise that there are more then 1 lab and more then 1 country that usually test these athletes.

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  marshx1 year, 1 month ago

  why don't they do the tests at the beginning of the tour? or every race. atleast that would filter out the cheats and let the real atheletes compete without distructions.

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  albionperfide1 year, 1 month ago

  IanFraigun

  Like you I wonder about the lab testing the samples and I speak as an ancien coureur from the 40s when getting enough food was the source of the results not dope!

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  dirtyfratboy1 year, 1 month ago

  Why do these guys even bother? Is winning so important that you willingly risk being shamed for the rest of your life?

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  disraeli1 year, 1 month ago

  I think they should just have a fully open class in the Tour de France, just like funny cars. The riders could use anything they wanted, nothing would be illegal. I suppose that the organizers might not like that idea much. Too much lost revenue as the new, improved and fully roided riders would complete the entire month long event in a little over 3 days.

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  agentX1 year, 1 month ago

  "World Anti-Doping Agency chief Dick Pound, a frequent critic of cycling's doping record, said the sport should have cleaned itself up by now.

  "It's almost impossible to be at the front of the pack these days without doping," he said."

  Yup, that's what it seems like it has come to. If you want to win, you have 2 choices. Take the roids, or don't take the roids but come up second and accuse the winner of roids.

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  rolums1 year, 1 month ago

  So like Landis, does he get stripped of his two stage wins?

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  angry-ken1 year, 1 month ago

  I just don't get it. They know they're going to be tested. There's no substitute for honest hard work and training. Damn cheaters!

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    IanFraigun1 year, 1 month ago

    Many suspect it is not the athlete but the lab.

    In last years tour Landis tested negative with his A sample. After the tour it took several tests of negative before a positive was reached on his B sample. Of course at that time there was no second sample to confirm the results.

    This is why we sometimes wonder about the lab. Going back later to a confirming sample and testing multiple times to get a positive without having a confirming sample available. This seems to happen only with this one lab as well yet they continue to rely on that labs results.

    One of the problems is the athlete is assumed guilty until proven innocent and much of what might prove them innocent is not admissable as it is assumed accurate when the hearing starts.

    If you won't accept that in a court of law why accept that in these cases where an individuals career and livelyhood are also at stake.

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  GlamourGirl1 year, 1 month ago

  Cycling is famous for doping scandals - so, I am not surprised at all!

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  getanapple1 year, 1 month ago

  nothing to say, cycling is just full of the drug, doping and other enhancements.

  but testing min major US sports is not very tight, see how many pro-sports players in America get busted by the police for possession vs. busted by the leagues?

  Part of the issue is cycling, track, swimming are testing like crazy while other sports do not. the sports that dont test dont have issues.

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  AmericanIdiot1 year, 1 month ago

  I didn't know they could test for that. Maybe Dikkk Cheney should be tested as well.

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  SAAB76991 year, 1 month ago

  It makes me wonder how these guys got to this level of

  cycling in the first place.Have they been doing this all

  along or is this a one time shot for glory thing? I guess

  we will never really know that answer.

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  liberty1 year, 1 month ago

  By the way here is a link to what is going since this doping

  http://sports.yahoo.com/sc/news?slug=ap-tourdef...

  225 people were tested only 1 person was positive. So I think this is not about france, but dopers

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  globalwarmer1 year, 1 month ago

  The article didn't say why he tested positve for blood transfusion. I imagine if you were planning on cheating, you would transfer your own blood, right? Do you really want someone elses blood in you? And how long has this been a performance booster?

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