Rasmus Damsgaard interview

iainf72
iainf72 Posts: 15,784
edited January 2008 in Pro race
Here

Good read.
Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.

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  • DaveyL
    DaveyL Posts: 5,167
    Bloody hell - along with Erik Zabel, he's another Bob Mortimer lookalike!
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  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    More power to him.

    But there's a massive conflict of interest, he earns his living thanks to pay cheques from Riis and Bruyneel. Hopefully his open publication of information will help.

    But by internalising the anti-doping controls, it effectively tells Riis and Bruyneel what the testing regime is about, Damsgaard says "I'll test for x,y and z using methods a, b and c".

    It would be healthier if the UCI or WADA could hire him instead.
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Kléber wrote:
    More power to him.

    But there's a massive conflict of interest, he earns his living thanks to pay cheques from Riis and Bruyneel. Hopefully his open publication of information will help.

    But by internalising the anti-doping controls, it effectively tells Riis and Bruyneel what the testing regime is about, Damsgaard says "I'll test for x,y and z using methods a, b and c".

    It would be healthier if the UCI or WADA could hire him instead.

    What, as massive as Sabine Sunderland, wife of CSC team director Scott Sunderland, writing an article about how great CSC's anti-doping regime is? :twisted: :twisted:
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    Kléber wrote:

    But by internalising the anti-doping controls, it effectively tells Riis and Bruyneel what the testing regime is about, Damsgaard says "I'll test for x,y and z using methods a, b and c".

    It would be healthier if the UCI or WADA could hire him instead.

    But unlike the doping controls of the past his methods aren't looking for binary postives or negatives, they're looking for wierd things.

    Which is what the UCI are trying with their passports. Except they're a bunch of inept clowns and will fluff it.

    While I agree it should not just be teams doing this themselves there remains a questions about how you fund this on a grand scale. The UCI gave one of their pathetic non-answers about it - If CSC or Astana are stumping up €500,000 per year that's a big pile of cash for a smaller team to find.
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    afx237vi wrote:
    What, as massive as Sabine Sunderland, wife of CSC team director Scott Sunderland, writing an article about how great CSC's anti-doping regime is? :twisted: :twisted:
    I did notice that too. It's a shocker, they mention this at the end of the interview but they should have got someone independent. They did a Hello! interview with Basso the other day too though.

    As for only the big teams doing this, does this mean small teams have a "green light" to dope and why aren't other big budget teams like Rabobank, Quick-Step and Caisse d'Epargne meeting this new standard?

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