Now Ricco gets busted for EPO

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  • skavanagh.bikeradar
    skavanagh.bikeradar Posts: 1,097
    I keep pointing this sort of thing out to non cycling people and they just don't get it, they don't see how EPO could help in Football or tennis or Golf because they've only heard of it with cycling. they think it's a cycling drug not a sports drug. So ASO out flanking everyone and making it an issue at the Olympics is good news for cycling as it might divert some of the flak.
  • DaveyL
    DaveyL Posts: 5,167
    Mohammed Asif's recent positive was announced before his B sample, e.g.

    http://edition.cnn.com/2008/SPORT/07/14 ... index.html
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  • SunWuKong
    SunWuKong Posts: 364
    Why would UEFA test? They might catch someone then, who would want that?
  • DaveyL
    DaveyL Posts: 5,167
    Seems like there was a decent amount of testing at Euro 2008

    http://www.uefa.com/uefa/keytopics/kind ... 29954.html
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  • SunWuKong
    SunWuKong Posts: 364
    Well that's good then.

    I heard an interview with a tester for the English Premier league. The unannounced tests went something like, turn up first thing tell management who they want to test. Then AFTER all the training has finished conduct the tests. Giving plenty of time for a player to forget and drive off. Don't know if this is still how it is done after the Rio Ferdinand's missed test.
  • andy_wrx
    andy_wrx Posts: 3,396
    Conspiracy therory : I wonder if this new test has actually been around for a little while but just been unveiled now ?

    WADA is of course an Olympics sub-division, not UCI.

    Either it's just before the Olympics but perhaps so close to them that anyone who's been on the juice will be caught because they'll still have this stuff detectable in their system and hence we'll have a clean Olympics with all the dopers either staying at home or being caught

    Or it's far enough away from the Olympics that anyone on the stuff will promptly stop it and arrive in Beijing and be tested and be clear, hence we'll have a clean Olympics because no-one will test positive.

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