tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31819641.post5252398614970169123..comments2023-10-06T03:21:26.130-07:00Comments on trust but verify: Irregular ReviewDBrowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17718913310467614671noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31819641.post-1346447918657283342008-08-01T07:22:00.000-07:002008-08-01T07:22:00.000-07:00I agree Dailbob. Seems to me the Landis arbitratio...I agree Dailbob. Seems to me the Landis arbitrations showed that once they accuse someone, their proof can be very thin. They might tighten their ship a bit and make it harder to question, but I doubt they'll hold the labs to a higher standard.<BR/><BR/>Ken SKen Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11477646691770055248noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31819641.post-91206303055510143122008-07-31T16:52:00.000-07:002008-07-31T16:52:00.000-07:00"and drug testing will never again be the same in ..."and drug testing will never again be the same in cycling. Everyone will be held to a higher standard"<BR/><BR/>Scott Tinley is much more optimistic than I am. My takeaway from this is that the ADAs can have have very poor quality lab data obtained by methodology that most Analytical Chemists would question and yet still get a conviction. If anything, I think the standards will be lower (thought I hope I'm wrong).Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05887511747481896873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31819641.post-85583699596786562152008-07-31T14:54:00.000-07:002008-07-31T14:54:00.000-07:00Interesting article and interview about the Aegis ...Interesting article and interview about the Aegis Sciences Corp. which does drug testing for the Agency for Cycling Ethics among others.<BR/><BR/>http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll<BR/><BR/>/article?AID=/20080720/BUSINESS05/807200376<BR/><BR/><BR/>"What's one of the biggest growth areas in the world of sport, when it comes to a need for better drug testing?<BR/><BR/>Cycling and the Tour de France has had terrible press on the degree of drug use in that sport. We're working with the Agency for Cycling Ethics (ACE) … to do close monitoring of every cyclist that is engaged in that sport in the United States. We monitor these individuals through both blood and urine testing to make sure they're not using any doping or performance-enhancing drugs.<BR/><BR/>This is one new development that began about 18 months ago to be proactive in terms of identifying use. We are monitoring a number of natural indicators for body function … and if the individual who is being tracked has their normal values markedly change over a short period of time … we'll just know there is something abnormal that is more likely than not to be associated with a prohibited practice. And they'd no longer have the opportunity to compete."mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11845675234084955737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31819641.post-2696589973680501572008-07-31T14:13:00.000-07:002008-07-31T14:13:00.000-07:00Yes, it *is* darn near the end of the world when y...Yes, it *is* darn near the end of the world when you don't post--you're the first thing I read in the a.m.! And yes, Klodi is completely hosed, *again*. !@#$%$# Bruyneel!racejunkiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06521337554930123743noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31819641.post-23329219859368617252008-07-31T10:47:00.000-07:002008-07-31T10:47:00.000-07:00It's interesting how the media spins TV rating...It's interesting how the media spins TV rating data to make what ever point they are trying to make. Another report from July 17 said ratings were up for the Tour de France on Vs.<BR/><BR/>http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticleHomePage&art_aid=86755Brent Soderberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11701400656698232224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31819641.post-80028821503855912652008-07-31T10:34:00.000-07:002008-07-31T10:34:00.000-07:00Thoughts on why Piepoli may never test positive fo...Thoughts on why Piepoli may never test positive for EPO. Although I'm still holding out hope that the testing will catch him.<BR/><BR/>1. Conventional EPO test is hit and miss and only detects EPO during a short window after its administration. <BR/><BR/>2. New CERA test may not overcome this problem, even though the effects of CERA are longer lived. See, WADA comment that CERA is detected also by conventional test. <BR/><BR/>3. Microdosing with EPO is even more difficult, if not almost impossible to detect.<BR/><BR/>4. Piepoli may not have been targeted and multiple tested like Ricco, thus decreasing the probability of catching him in the "detectable window".<BR/><BR/>Found this "pro doping" website thru Podium Cafe. Some interesting discussion of how to beat the doping tests. They think EPO micro-dosing almost impossible to detect.<BR/>http://www.cuttingedgemuscle.com/Forum/<BR/>showthread.php?<BR/>s=0c99358966c42fd962afc355d8c3cbfb<BR/>&threadid=20031&perpage<BR/>=15&pagenumber=4<BR/><BR/>Joe Lindsey thinks microdosing EPO may be used to mask blood doping.<BR/><BR/>"So if you were blood doping and trying to cover it up, what would you do? You'd take micro-doses of EPO, just enough to boost your retic count to plausible levels, but not enough to test positive for EPO use. And a drug like CERA, a continuous release option, is a perfect drug for that.<BR/><BR/>I think most of the EPO positives we've seen are not actually EPO. They're EPO as a masking agent. This dates back to Roberto Heras after the 2005 Vuelta - that was probably the first actual testing catch of this kind of situation."<BR/><BR/>http://boulderreport.bicycling.com<BR/>/2008/07/live-blog-sta-5.htmlmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11845675234084955737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31819641.post-75465467554421002062008-07-31T09:37:00.000-07:002008-07-31T09:37:00.000-07:007 Russian track and field athletes.2 Romanian trac...7 Russian track and field athletes.<BR/><BR/>2 Romanian track and field athletes banned.<BR/><BR/>1 Chinese race walker banned for an earlier violation.<BR/><BR/>We're already a quarter of the way to the 40 projected doping violations at the Olympics.<BR/><BR/><BR/>Plus 2 more Italian cyclists have just tested positive for EPO.<BR/><BR/>"It's busy days at CONI, and today Italian anti-doping authorities announced two positives, both for EPO, from the Italian national championship week. Paolo Bossoni of Lampre tested positive after the elite national championship. Lampre has suspended the 32 year old Bossoni and he will not start the Classico San Sebastian. Giovanni Carini tested positive after winning the national championship for elites without contract. He will now lose the title."<BR/><BR/>And Piepoli denies all at CONI.<BR/><BR/>Ricco's confession was only partial. He failed to finger anyone else, like his roomate Piepoli. Said he did it all alone. Sure. Plus by admitting guilt, he probably decreased the potential of having his Giro B samples tested.mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11845675234084955737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31819641.post-16954353324952794082008-07-31T08:46:00.000-07:002008-07-31T08:46:00.000-07:00Seems the IAAF is getting slicker in its antidopin...Seems the IAAF is getting slicker in its antidoping campaign, nailing 7 Russian athletes, including 5 from the Olympic team among which are "Yelena Soboleva, the world’s top performer this year at 800 and 1,500 meters, and Tatyana Tomashova, who won a silver medal in the 1,500 at the 2004 Athens Olympics. The Russian women were suspended by track and field’s world governing body and were accused of fraudulently using substitute urine in an attempt to pass doping tests." <BR/><BR/>Apparently using DNA analysis the IAAF "had been investigating the Russian women for more than a year. The athletes were caught when urine samples they had previously given, which had been stored, were compared with other samples, presumably provided at recent meets." (excerpts from NYTimes article)<BR/><BR/>Let's see if this gets the same news coverage as cycling or whether it will get Hardy's red carpet treatment...pensumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08253154717997773018noreply@blogger.com