Now Ricco gets busted for EPO

robmanic1

He looks like a chav, car-thief anyway!

dirk_van_gently

Cue Pat McQuaid gleefully rubbing hands

jimmythecuckoo

Liquigas will be preparing a contract for when his ban ends as we speak.

andy_wrx

jimmythecuckoo wrote:

ha ha, what a shock not!

+1

And how many others of the S-D boilermen ?

DaveyL

jim one

After all his hinting about Contador in Giro as well about how he must have been "preparing" and Ricco was on the drugs the whole time the cheeky ****.

No surprise as others have said but still a shame being everyone has talked of the "new clean generation" coming along with Cav and Ricco winning stages.

cougie

I'm not shocked at all. Expect a similar report on Sunday when Piepolis test comes back after his win. He didnt even need to open his mouth for breath he was so relaxed on the last climb. His younger (cleaner ?) team mate was gasping like a dying fish.

MarkMcp

Now the whole Saunier Duval team have pulled out

iainf72

http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/Equ ... 63667.html

Good info in here.

I expect surprise abandons soon

DaveyL

They should all be rounded up and blood- and urine tested before leaving.

Kléber

The whole Saunier Duval team is quitting the race. Good riddance!

DaveyL

iainf72 wrote:

http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/Equipe_Ricco_positive_for_EPO_at_Tour_de_France_article_263667.html

Good info in here.

I expect surprise abandons soon

Good link. If a large number of riders have taken this gear thinking it is undetectable, there is going to be carnage.

Adieu

How many blows must we endure...

ms_tree

avoidingmyphd wrote:

aaarrrrrgh.

Anyone know what "3rd generation" epo or "cera" means?

This tells me that these riders are convinced that they are taking something undetectable. We just sit at home looking at the pc, and we know Ricco was being targeted by the testers. Yet he pulls off that ET/Pantani/Rasmussen attack anyway. He must have thought he was uncatchable.

Makes Piepoli-Cobo 1-2 look even more suspicious. Back to the Gewiss days?

What an idiot!
Translated this off an Italian site:
The new Epo called CERA

The Cera, stands for "Continuous erythropoietin receptor activator," that is continuous activator receptor dell'eritropoietina level kidney. It 'a brand new product, is used by no more than a year in hospital in the care of patients with severe kidney failure and forced to dialysis.
It 'just an injection, maximum two per month. This type of Epo acts continuously on renal receptor, namely the course encourages them to produce erythropoietin. From a technical point of view, the more durable product is made possible through the involvement at the level of molecular-genetic engineering, a long chain molecule protein in dell'Epo, raddoppiandone weight and especially the effects in the body. This is precisely the secret of the new product, which has attracted the attention of sports: just the injection with a syringe from insulin to be covered for a long time, and therefore there is no need to make thousands of units Epo continuously, with the risk of having to carry around vials of erythropoietin.
The wax could describe it as a product to slow release of Epo: therefore greater oxygenation, more red blood cells, but in a time period longer ampio.Senza peaks typical of external administration of Epo, which puts at risk the athletes at the rise in values hematocrit and hemoglobin. But with two contra-indications is a synthetic product (like the same Epo), and then at risk of traceability, and has a more important effect on reticolociti. The Epo, doping for excellence in the nineties, not only in cycling was traced starting dall'Olimpiade Sydney 2000. The wax, however, already included in the list of banned substances, has disturbing characteristics for possible use in sport. It added that it is not easy to find: he is in hospital and not in pharmacy. It is said that the black market costs 1,000 euros per syringe.

by gazzetta.it

neonwarhead

MarkMcp wrote:

Now the whole Saunier Duval team have pulled out

Where did you hear this?

redddraggon

neonwarhead wrote:

MarkMcp wrote:

Now the whole Saunier Duval team have pulled out

Where did you hear this?

It's on Eurosport now, it appears they took to the start line, but never got going.

iainf72

neonwarhead wrote:

MarkMcp wrote:

Now the whole Saunier Duval team have pulled out

Where did you hear this?

He's got a Reuters newsfeed. He'll hear very quickly.

Anonymous

I bet they thought this new type untraceable

So frustrating though...

richa

Do the wins now get credited to Valverde & Efimkin ?

MarkMcp

as iainf72 said

PutneyJoe

This could be very good for the sport going forward - they thought they wouldn't be caught and they were...

ricadus

Well just finished watching the ES broadcast update.

What a total pricco.

DaveyL

It should be easier to detect than bog-standard epo. And the wording of the WADA list means any new product which boosts oxygen carrying capacity is banned without being explicitly named. Let's hope a few more big fish get landed by this one.

Gazzaputt

Really angered by this.

Cocky little shite making out how good he is and all the time he's a low life cheat.

Knew his Pyreenes win was to good to be true. The way he rode off the front.

sing_for_absolution

It's surely no coincidence that the years 1999-2005 had no major scandals hit the race eh? Must've been a very influential figure, as Simeoni knows very well.

oily sailor

I am finding this quite amusing, I can't work out why.

Footage of Ricco's face as he found out would be good.

de_sisti

DaveyL wrote:

. Let's see other sports subject their athletes to such targeted and frequent testing.

Like tennis. 5 sets, 5 hours and hardly out of breathe

IMO this is one sport where the authorities think that the players are holier than thou.

andrewgturnbull

Where do I get a ticket for the press conference?

andy_wrx

Tour website www.letour.fr

13:27 - Saunier Duval Team Absent
When we have confirmation on the situation regarding the Saunier Duval-Scott team a newsflash will be posted. What we do know is that there are no riders from the squad in the race.

There is a significant change on the general classification front, with the omission of two Saunier Duval riders from the top 10. Juan Jose Cobo and Riccardo Ricco were ranked eighth and ninth overall. We await official confirmation of the status of these riders but can state that there is no polka-dot jersey in the race for stage 12.

jimmythecuckoo

Kléber wrote:

The whole Saunier Duval team is quitting the race. Good riddance!

The commentary on the Tour website on mentions Ricco and JJ Cobo at this stage...