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The Aussie conundrum, new UCI anti-doping regulations and their failings, and an African breakthrough

  • by Lee Rodgers
  • Posted on January 15, 2015

This article originally appeared on The Roar _______________________________ Can you feel it? It’s that time…

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The Froome TUE Palava: Every side letting the fans down

  • by Lee Rodgers
  • Posted on June 24, 2014June 28, 2014

this article originally appeared on The Roar   Many would have never heard of a…

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Brailsford let us down…

  • by Lee Rodgers
  • Posted on July 22, 2013

can’t really see it any other way. a ‘decision’ mid-Tour to announce that you’re going…

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a slightly over-impassioned response to a message that i probably shouldn’t post, but what the hell

  • by Lee Rodgers
  • Posted on April 25, 2013April 26, 2013

thanks for taking the time to reply _______, appreciate that. i do feel that i…

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11 responses to “a slightly over-impassioned response to a message that i probably shouldn’t post, but what the hell”

  1. Victor Major Avatar
    Victor Major
    April 25, 2013

    It’s not over. Nothing has changed. UCI remained, Pat was endorsed again (and thus the entire UCI legacy was endorsed) and as you wrote; dopers, facilitators of doping and former dopers are still in charge. The only change is that there is now that new red blood cell boosting drug out by one and soon to be another 2-3 pharmaceutical companies. This time it is small, and it is a simple tablet. No fridges, no IVs, no injections, no fear anymore…

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    1. crankpunk Avatar
      crankpunk
      April 25, 2013

      yep, and yet so many folk are doing the old ‘oh this is boring now, let it go’ routine.
      never mind Livestrong, i’m gonna start Team Apathy. the bands won;t be rubber but barbed wire – they won’t notice the pain anyway…

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  2. josé de magalhães Avatar
    josé de magalhães
    April 25, 2013

    we need a complete overall of the UCI! we need dope testing to be free from any external influence (like the judiciary in a true democracy). we need legislation in every country to criminalize doping in cycling, or any sport for that matter. never mind suspensions… jail time!!! it’s all good and well to do it for the love of the bike (like me, why else would i still ride mine at 58?) but it would be nice to be able to make a living as a racer without some doper pulling the rug from under your tires. that’s fraud. keep up the good posts

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    1. crankpunk Avatar
      crankpunk
      April 25, 2013

      agreed Jose, i’d like to see Michael Ashenden back heading that, he’s one of the very few with the experience, vigor and integrity to do it. and yes to criminal prosecutions too. time to get serious. and thanks, will do my best 😉

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  3. Rupert Avatar
    Rupert
    April 25, 2013

    BAN ALL DRUG CHEATS FOR LIFE …. Then see the incidents of drug cheating all but disappear.
    Enjoy the fact that while Pat is still in power we have every right to moan and moan until they bloody do the right thing and not just clean up the sport but give it a proper polish.

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    1. crankpunk Avatar
      crankpunk
      April 25, 2013

      i do think, Rupert, that a life time ban for a first offence is too much, as there may be the odd rider who genuinely eats the wrong beef, gets spiked, etc. that would suck, to lose it all through someone elses actions. (btw, watch that 30 for 30 thing on Ben Johnson, he got spiked! ok he was doping too, but he was spiked also). i do think 3-4 years out for a first offence, with a further 1 year ban from Pro Conti and Pro Tour, and a one year salary fine for the rider is somewhere in the right direction, with the team losing half its UCI points for the first doped rider in a calendar year, then a further 75% for another, and having to pay the rider’s salary equivalent to a charity is resonable too. have to hit them financially, and make the management responsible too…

      also, should find a way to make hiring ex-dopers less appealing, like, their UCI points gained for the forst two seasons back count only half, or something.

      but, dope twice? out for life.

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  4. Extralight Avatar
    Extralight
    April 25, 2013

    Great blog, and a good article – thank you. I don’t understand why there aren’t more people calling for the team managers and the doctors to be the ones who get the really severe sanctions. Sure, riders should be punished, but sadly not everyone has the integrity of people like you and Nicole Cooke. A doctor or DS who ‘doesn’t know’ that one of their riders is doping is either incompetent, complacent, or, more likely complicit if one of their charges is juiced. Either way, these crooks (bent doctors and Directeur Sportifs) have no place in sport – they’re the ones who perpetuate the doping culture and put the riders under pressure to dope. First offence = big fine, team or rider(s) banned from x number of events; second offence, a scaled up version of these same penalties; third offence (ie. when you’ve had 3 riders that you manage / care for test positive), then you should be barred from the sport for life and, if a medic, referred to the GMC or your national equivalent so that you never practice medicine, in sport or anywhere else. Is that unreasonable? I don’t think so…

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    1. crankpunk Avatar
      crankpunk
      April 26, 2013

      i’m with you, Extralight. everyone’s doing a ‘it wasn’t me’, hands up, innocent eyes special – but THAT IS YOUR JOB! to make sure the guys are clean. ‘oh he must have taken it when i wasn’t looking, the sneaky so-and-so! ooh he’s a cheeky one, that lad!’ right, and you missed the 10% jump in performance when training, the sudden wins coming from nowhere, the spike in blood levels and the bulging money pot.

      i too am tired by the lack of accountability. most of us are, i’d say. maybe we could start messaging the team FB accounts, asking them politely to sort it out? hmm that might be an idea.

      as for guys like Riis and the like, who admitted doping, and Andersen (7 times busted I believe), Bruyneel, and of course JV… well, their records speak for themselves, and it’s all dirty talk, my mother would scrub their mouths out with soap. but then there are the soigneurs, the medics etc. yeah, it’s in a right old state…

      oh and thanks for the comment 😉

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  7. Scott Hembree Avatar
    Scott Hembree
    April 26, 2013

    Dude! Those of us DO complain are the ones who just quit figuring we were not good enough to cut it and never even knew about the secret race. I was the strongest and fastest guy when we won 1979 team pursuit natz at Northbrook and won points race natz the next year in San Diego going away solo twice. But once Steve Hegg came on the scene not only was my spot gone but the others all of a sudden got faster there there was no point in waiting till 84 when they were all blood doing.

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