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Aspirin, tobacco, and wine were not the same kind of doping as EPO and blood transfusions and T patches & steroids. Heck those guys had to fix their own bikes too! |
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And this is pre all the amphetamines and La Bombas and all other nonsense that crept in post-war. Are they the same as targeted blood doping? No. But riding 400km over dirt roads while on a cocktail of cocaine and strychnine ain't exactly as romantic as position it with aspirin and wine. If anything, blood doping made racing more exciting. The early/mid 90s were a heyday of positively bonkers racing. |
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(But let's not get too cocky - we had Dopestrong here in the US, France had Laurent Jalabert even if he was riding for a mainly Spanish team, etc.) |
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Has a member of a wining TTT team ever been caught with a positive? If so, is the result nullified?
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USPS/Discovery; TdF; won the TTT in 2003, 2004, 2005. Armstrong, Hincapie, Landis, Zabriskie, etc were all later found positive, and were individually DQ'd (individual stage results nullified retroactively). I would guess that this has happened for other teams/riders/events. The TTT results those riders contributed to still stand, interestingly, in that winning WC/Olympics track relay team results are individual- and team-nullified even if only one member is found positive. Usain Bolt/the Jamaican team were stripped (in 2017) of the 2008 Olympics 4x100 Gold Medal and WR because of Nesta Carter's positive doping tests. Apparently not. The TTT stage result is not (has not been to date) nullified. USPS/Discovery are still listed as the winning team of those TTT stages even as Armstong's, Hincapie's, Landis's, Zabriskie's, etc names have been stricken as the individual winner of other stages in those same TdFs. |
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“Not me” — Vincenzo Nibali
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http://hubbardpark.blogspot.com/ |
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Team Penalty
I think that a team and also management penalty would go a long way to addressing the doping issue.
Suspend the license of the team for a year. Suspend the GM and directors of said team for a year. Longer penalties for 2nd offenses. If they did that the teams would be interested in having clean riders- Currently they are only concerned about having riders who do not test positive. |
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Mmm, it’s hard to say. As some may have learned from group projects in school there are people that don’t care about the welfare and success of the colelctive group. I think an investigation should be done to ascertain if the team was in on it or just turned a blind eye. But to punish hard working and honest people for the poor decisions of one person is a serious punishment. The others have themselves and families to provide for.
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Without doing any deep research, any armchair fan of the sport can point out that at least 3 of the 18 UCI World Tour teams are managed and led by dopers...Zabel, Vinokurov and Vaughters of Katusha, Astana and EF. Are we really supposed to believe that these individuals care about rider health and welfare and riding “clean”? When a rider gets popped, they drop him like a bad habit and disavow any knowledge of his issue. Ineos doesn’t count btw, as Brailsford has stated that they are clean so we need to trust him....
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I would hope that instinct to care for those that follow applies here. I realize that perception of any figure in public life is influenced (manipulated?) by the individual, press, press agents, and ever more so by social media. I’m saying that as a qualifier to my next statements. I wouldn’t trust Vinokurov to manage a pee-wee football team (if such teams still exist) and find it near impossible to cheer any rider on Astana. I do believe in the sincerity of Vaughters’ motives and actions and enjoy seeing EF succeed. Naive perhaps |
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