Marmotte winner, are they drug tested?

brad68
brad68 Posts: 883
edited July 2007 in Sportives/audaxes/training rides
Just googled the winner of this year's Marmotte, Andrea Cavatti, it seems he wins most of the sportive events in Europe.

By the way his winning time was 6hr 9seconds! That is amazingly quick, so back to my point, are they tested?
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  • grimpeur
    grimpeur Posts: 230
    Last year the winning time was under 6hrs for the first time ever...

    and the rider who won was an ex Mercatoni Uno pro...

    so, hmmmmmm, hmmmm indeed.
  • vermooten
    vermooten Posts: 2,697
    I would have given my right nut for some EPO if I knew it would help me up the Alpe last Saturday.
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  • grimpeur
    grimpeur Posts: 230
    It was rather warm wasn't it.

    The most soul destroying point in the Marmotte is the sign on the side of the road as you ride into Bourg which states that it is 15km to the finish. It does of course fail to point out that 95% of that consists of riding a 10% gradient up Alpe d'Huez in mid 30°C temperatures!
  • craigenty
    craigenty Posts: 960
    grimpeur wrote:
    It was rather warm wasn't it.

    The most soul destroying point in the Marmotte is the sign on the side of the road as you ride into Bourg which states that it is 15km to the finish. It does of course fail to point out that 95% of that consists of riding a 10% gradient up Alpe d'Huez in mid 30°C temperatures!

    Lat year i did the first 160km in 6.5 hours and the last 14km in 1.5 hours.
    Work that one out :shock:
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  • Bronzie
    Bronzie Posts: 4,927
    brad68 wrote:
    so back to my point, are they tested?

    Pretty sure there are no controls in sportifs...............that's why Rumsas (3rd in 2002 TdF and later banned because his wife was stopped at the Spanish border with a car full of PEDs) rides them.

    Someone in our club rode the 2002 Etape and was the first Brit home in 20th..............he was convinced that all the others in the leading group were high as kites on various naughties.
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  • knedlicky
    knedlicky Posts: 3,097
    Bronzie wrote:
    brad68 wrote:
    so back to my point, are they tested?

    Pretty sure there are no controls in sportifs...............that's why Rumsas (3rd in 2002 TdF and later banned because his wife was stopped at the Spanish border with a car full of PEDs) rides them.

    Someone in our club rode the 2002 Etape and was the first Brit home in 20th..............he was convinced that all the others in the leading group were high as kites on various naughties.

    I read somewhere that, the last couple of years at the Maratona delle Dolomiti cyclosportive in Italy, the organisers tested participants.

    I think the article said that they tested the top three in the two Elite categories, the winners of some of the other age/gender categories, and 20 other lower-placed finishers chosen at random.
    Even if they only tested half the category winners, since there are 3 distances at the Maratona and several age classes for both male and female participants, that still makes 12 or 13 winners they could have tested. Add the Elite and the random, that makes about 40 riders tested.
  • ricadus
    ricadus Posts: 2,379
    The top finishers get tested in the gran fondos, though Rumsas avoided a test at the end of one earlier this year and no action has been taken to penalize him for it.
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