Obree is

dave_1

proof of what can be done clean. he should have raised court action against the Verbruggen

http://www.obree.com/

Bronzie

Dave_1 wrote:

he should have raised court action against the Verbruggen

On what grounds - because they banned his position or because the UCI did nothing to stop doping at the time?

I like Obree's closing comment:
"AND by the way, I never took drugs to improve my performance at any time as has been happening in the sport for a long time. I will be willing to stick my finger into a polygraph test if anyone with big media pull wants to take issue. In other words, if you buy a signed poster now it will not be tarnished later."

Nicely put.

dave_1

Bronzie wrote:

Dave_1 wrote:

he should have raised court action against the Verbruggen

On what grounds - because they banned his position or because the UCI did nothing to stop doping at the time?

I like Obree's closing comment:
"AND by the way, I never took drugs to improve my performance at any time as has been happening in the sport for a long time. I will be willing to stick my finger into a polygraph test if anyone with big media pull wants to take issue. In other words, if you buy a signed poster now it will not be tarnished later."

Nicely put.

Because they made up rules trackside, not constitutional...and cause they appeared to be aware of blood doping and did nothing till 97 and were negligent, a law unto themselves and negligent to the point where the health of the riders was endangered by the do nothing attitude of UCI...EPO hit the bunch 1990-1992...why take 6 years to test blood when it was available as a test before that??...they wrecked clean riders careers..

OffTheBackAdam

Dave_1 wrote:

EPO hit the bunch 1990-1992...why take 6 years to test blood when it was available as a test before that

Because it wasn't possible to differentiate between EPO and RhEPO at that time.

top_bhoy

The biggest factor is the unconstiutional making of fundamental changes at the track and appearing to have a continuing vendetta against anything which Graeme Obree introduced. Not only the UCI however, British cycling should hang its head in shame at the way it failed with its lack of support for Graeme. I doubt that if the same had happened to Boardman then the British Cycling attitude would have been the same.

bigdawg

why on earth is he not earning anything from the flying scotsman..??

Jeez this guy really has had everything stacked against him and yet hes still one of the best cyclists in the country... Proud to have met him a good few years back (and had a very one sided turbo race 'against' him...)

dave_1

OffTheBackAdam wrote:

Dave_1 wrote:

EPO hit the bunch 1990-1992...why take 6 years to test blood when it was available as a test before that

Because it wasn't possible to differentiate between EPO and RhEPO at that time.

Surely the haemocrit test was around a long time before synthetic EPO testing was developed?