19 athletes implicated: Here we go again

[redir]

Geesh will it ever end?

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Belgian newspaper Het Nieuwsblad is reporting that 19 athletes, mostly cyclists, are involved in a blood-doping scandal.

After a 2.5-year investigation, a prosecutor in Leuven, Belgium is seeking to bring Dr. Chris Mertens to trial.

Mertens, the report says, is suspected to have performed blood transfusions with ozone, which involves drawing blood, infusing it with ozone, and then putting it back into the body. Martens is also accused of having turned athletes on to doping.

Blood transfusions are banned under WADA Code.

Read more at http://velonews.competitor.com/2014/10/news/news-19-riders-implicated-belgian-blood-doping-scandal_351527#54QkezsxqhsRK4Tc.99

[CunegoFan]

Personally I don't believe it. Just the other day Robin Parisotto was quoted as saying the bio passport is unbeatable and J. Vaughters, sounding a bit too much like Nancy Reagan, has said that doping is no longer what "the cool kids do." Officially doping in cycling stopped after the Unreasonable Decision.

[Lewis Moon]

Saw this and was about to post. Time to stock up on popcorn.

[leftyfreak]

But they're hard men, they don't need to dope!:eek:

[PQJ]

I'm shocked. Absolutely stone cold shocked.

[Stephen2014]

I wish athletes would just get some morals and stop being cheating slime.

[regularguy412]

I'm shocked. Absolutely stone cold shocked.

Thank you , Claude Rains! :D

Mike in AR:beer:

[djg21]

Personally I don't believe it. Just the other day Robin Parisotto was quoted as saying the bio passport is unbeatable and J. Vaughters, sounding a bit too much like Nancy Reagan, has said that doping is no longer what "the cool kids do." Officially doping in cycling stopped after the Unreasonable Decision.

I cannot tell is you are being facetious or serious. I'm sure doping by means which are now detectable has stopped. I presume that just as quickly as the doping by formerly undetectable means stopped, some in professional racing have undertaken to develop new and undetectable means of cheating. Given the money involved in salary and endorsements, there are always going to be some who will try to cheat.

[Ti Designs]

But they're hard men, they don't need to dope!:eek:

Viagra is a performance enhancing drug...

[Louis]

Viagra is a performance enhancing drug...

And I'm sick and tired of hearing ads for it on Sports-Talk radio.

And ads for Hooters.

And ads for hair replacement.

And ads for divorce lawyers.

What the h3ll is wrong with these guys? Get a life.

[Ti Designs]

And I'm sick and tired of hearing ads for it on Sports-Talk radio.

And ads for Hooters.

And ads for hair replacement.

And ads for divorce lawyers.


You're sick of it? I'm a divorced balding guy named ED - how do you think I feel?

[Louis]

You're sick of it? I'm a divorced balding guy named ED - how do you think I feel?

:banana::banana::banana::banana::banana:

[Rada]

Any over and under on the new number of GT wins vacated?

[Germany_chris]

Geesh will it ever end?

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Belgian newspaper Het Nieuwsblad is reporting that 19 athletes, mostly cyclists, are involved in a blood-doping scandal.

After a 2.5-year investigation, a prosecutor in Leuven, Belgium is seeking to bring Dr. Chris Mertens to trial.

Mertens, the report says, is suspected to have performed blood transfusions with ozone, which involves drawing blood, infusing it with ozone, and then putting it back into the body. Martens is also accused of having turned athletes on to doping.

Blood transfusions are banned under WADA Code.

Read more at http://velonews.competitor.com/2014/10/news/news-19-riders-implicated-belgian-blood-doping-scandal_351527#54QkezsxqhsRK4Tc.99


It's always been there and it's not going anywhere.

[jghall]

You're sick of it? I'm a divorced balding guy named ED - how do you think I feel?

Guess it could be slightly worse, you could be a deaf, divorcing bald guy, who does not like chicken wings or women in daisy dukes.

[zmudshark]

I wish athletes would just get some morals and stop being cheating slime.

Like regular businessmen?

[bcroslin]

Like regular businessmen?

I had an interesting assignment recently where I was able to sit in and listen to 2 people with an intimate knowledge of big-time pro and college sports and the things I heard about the amount of cheating that goes on in those sports blew my mind. Under-the-table money to college athletes, recruiting violations swept under the rug, PED's in the pros, etc. The bottom line is this: cheating is an unfortunate part of any sport where large amounts of money are a stake. Doesn't matter what you'd like to believe or what the PR folks get paid to tell us. Cheating is everywhere. Doesn't mean we have to condone it and we certainly shouldn't turn a blind eye to it but nothing we say or do it is going to change it. Enjoy spectator sports for what they are: entertainment.

[Louis]

the bottom line is this: Cheating is an unfortunate part of any sport human activity where large amounts of money are a stake.

ftfy

[bcroslin]

ftfy

indeed

[leftyfreak]

Guess it could be slightly worse, you could be a deaf, divorcing bald guy, who does not like chicken wings or women in daisy dukes.

Well, there are those times when you ask him to slow down, but he doesn't. Maybe he is losing his hearing...

[kittytrail]

The bottom line is this: cheating is an unfortunate part of any sport where any amount of money is a stake.

:cool:

[verticaldoug]

There is every reason to believe that specific countries are still running organized doping programs for WADA to random test Jamaicans sprinters last winter and this year they essentially were nowhere to be found on international podiums,

[rain dogs]

Any over and under on the new number of GT wins vacated?

Not likely... who was the last Belgian to win a GT? That was forever ago....

A: Johan De Muynck in 1978 (Giro)

I am shocked, shocked I say :eek:... there are people out there that'll try and convince you that doping is limited to cyclists hailing from south of 45th parallel north.

[Rada]

Not likely... who was the last Belgian to win a GT? That was forever ago....

A: Johan De Muynck in 1978 (Giro)

I am shocked, shocked I say :eek:... there are people out there that'll try and convince you that doping is limited to cyclists hailing from south of 45th parallel north.

Dr Mertens is not limited to having Belgian clients.

[rockdoc]

professional sports is a total waste of (my) time.

[rockdoc]

nt

[Louis]

"Everyone" does it:

NYT story on Boston Marathon winner (http://nyti.ms/1u1AXhj)

A cloud was cast over the great tradition of Kenyan distance running Friday when Rita Jeptoo, winner of the Boston and Chicago marathons the past two years, tested positive for a banned substance, international officials said.

Jeptoo, 33, who has won Boston three times and Chicago twice, is by far the most prominent Kenyan runner to have failed a doping test. She had a positive test on an A sample for an unnamed banned substance, according to the World Marathon Majors, which represents the world’s six most prominent marathons. But under antidoping rules, a second sample of the same test must come back positive for her to be found guilty of a doping violation by the International Association of Athletics Federations, track and field’s international governing body.

[stephenmarklay]

Viagra is a performance enhancing drug...

That's what she said.

[happycampyer]

I thought that it was well documented that all doping in the peloton ceased in 2006.

[oldpotatoe]

I had an interesting assignment recently where I was able to sit in and listen to 2 people with an intimate knowledge of big-time pro and college sports and the things I heard about the amount of cheating that goes on in those sports blew my mind. Under-the-table money to college athletes, recruiting violations swept under the rug, PED's in the pros, etc. The bottom line is this: cheating is an unfortunate part of any sport where large amounts of money are a stake. Doesn't matter what you'd like to believe or what the PR folks get paid to tell us. Cheating is everywhere. Doesn't mean we have to condone it and we certainly shouldn't turn a blind eye to it but nothing we say or do it is going to change it. Enjoy spectator sports for what they are: entertainment.

Just make college football the minor league system it already is, but legit(as legit as it can be)...have them 'major' in football, this idea of 'student'-athletes is a joke.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1J6lx5_uM4

[redir]

It's always been there and it's not going anywhere.

Yup and in the sport of running it may even be worse.

http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/athletics/29855763

Rita Jeptoo: Kenyan marathon runner fails doping test

Kenyan marathon runner Rita Jeptoo has become the latest athlete from the country to fail a doping test.

The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) informed Athletics Kenya of traces of a banned substance in Jeptoo's 'A' sample.

An Athletics Kenya statement on the 33-year-old read: "The result of the 'A' sample for the athlete has indicated the presence of prohibited substances."

Thirty-six Kenyans have been confirmed as failing tests in the past two years.

[CunegoFan]

Yup and in the sport of running it may even be worse.

http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/athletics/29855763

Rita Jeptoo: Kenyan marathon runner fails doping test

Kenyan marathon runner Rita Jeptoo has become the latest athlete from the country to fail a doping test.

The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) informed Athletics Kenya of traces of a banned substance in Jeptoo's 'A' sample.


The banned substance is EPO. It is not a big surprise. A while back a German journalist went to Kenya and posed as a sports agent. People freely admitted to him that EPO use was rampant there.

[shovelhd]

Gee, this whole time I thought it was genetics.

[Mr. Pink]

Like regular businessmen?

Or politicians.

[54ny77]

It is. It's just enhanced a little.

Maybe Whole Foods will sponsor a GMO-free marathon (to include both products and people).

:bike:


Gee, this whole time I thought it was genetics.