Astarloza B sample
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Faster than Usain Bolt with the news as ever Iain. Have you got the link please buddy?Let's close our eyes and see what happens0
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"....confirmation officielle de l'UCI."
Good work fella. Thanks.Let's close our eyes and see what happens0 -
Speaking of tests and Usain Bolt...
Nah, just kidding. :roll:0 -
drenkrom wrote:Speaking of tests and Usain Bolt...
Nah, just kidding. :roll:
Dunno what you could possibly mean......!Let's close our eyes and see what happens0 -
Aww, no. You mean that moment where he surrounded himself with kids and, dressed in white, pronounced his innocence whilst banging fists on the table was just a last-ditched attempt at media manipulation?
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iainf72 wrote:
I'm very disappointed you had to resort to the european press for this one. Nothing in the Hyderabad star this week?0 -
Eustaktel are saying they've received no confirmation of the B-sample..
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/euskalt ... r-analysis0 -
Did they say that in a kind of Fawlty Towers' Manuel-esque "I know nothingggg" kind of voice?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mB1cUbFv5Hs0 -
The testing procedure is between the athlete and the testing body, in this case Astarloza and the Spanish authorities. I don't think there is any requirement to inform the team as part of this process. Only the rider, the testing organisation and the governing body are informed.
But if you have seen some different rules, let me know.0 -
In the event of an adverse finding, the UCI first inform the rider and then the rider's national federation, national anti-doping organisation and WADA.Kléber wrote:The testing procedure is between the athlete and the testing body, in this case Astarloza and the Spanish authorities. I don't think there is any requirement to inform the team as part of this process. Only the rider, the testing organisation and the governing body are informed.
But if you have seen some different rules, let me know.
They may inform the riders club or team but its not mandatory.
Of course, "L'Equipe" will have been informed before any of them 'This week I 'ave been mostly been climbing like Basso - Shirley Basso.'0 -
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ratherbeintobago wrote:Drug-free tour anyone?
Andy
This was a test done BEFORE the Tour. So technically it was still a drug-free Tour!0 -
The team have now confirmed they've recieved notification the B sample was also positive.Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.0
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They are also defending him, getting the team's lawyers on the case to prove his innocence.0
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I thought Eustaktel were pulling out of cycling next year? Surely a waste of their money trying to defend him?0
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I think the sponsor is thinking of pulling out but imagine the team, as in the management, is paying for the lawyers. They need their Tour stage winner to be clean after all.0
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Eustakel in court...
I have nothing more to say on the matter.0 -
Perhaps his lawyers can team up with Di Luca's lawyers and see what they come up with?
Only thing I can think is a bigger legal fee. :roll:0 -
I thought I'd heard somewhere that Euskaltel were sticking with the sport. The team has offered 2 year contracts to 2 new, young riders: http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/euskalt ... ext-season
After the positive dope tests and with the current economic state of things, they wouldn't have signed these riders up for 2 years, unless they have a get-out clause allowing the contract to be annulled if the team folds.0 -
I'm struggling to see the logic behind the team defending him - surely it is in their best interest to let the rider defend himself, rather than come accross a team who try to protect convicted dopers?0
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Bizarre defense:
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/astarlo ... ck-on-bike
He had CERA EPO in his sample, right? As far as I know hyperbaric tents don't make synthetic EPO suddenly appear in your body.0 -
"The fact that two minutes before [the testers turned up] he had been on the home trainer in this tent altered his values to the point where it led to errors being made when the results were analysed," Rodríguez told Deia
Another audacious excuse, this isn't up there with the "my dog was ill" tale, it's in the class like the Lotto rider who said he tested positive for EPO after dodgy food supplements. It's baloney.
Altitude training, whether actually at 2000m or in a nitrogen tent is an extremely gradual process. You don't suddenly get a "rush" of EPO production by doing a turbo session inside a tent.
Mikel, change your defence team 0 -
I thought hyperbaric tents were banned, anyway?0
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Being pedantic, a hyperbaric tent a) simulates being at depth*, and b) the increased PaO2 increases CaO2 (admittedly not by much, as the effect is mainly on dissolved oxygen, rather than that bound to Hb) which I would have thought would suppress intrinsic EPO production?
Andy
*Though I concede one could breathe a hypoxic mixture, but wouldn't that increase this risk of N2 narcosis? Not a diver so not sure.0 -
There are no hypobaric tents, the ones used are hypoxic tents, they use a machine to pump in nitrogen to the point where you have, say, only 15% O2 in the tent instead of the usual 21%. The body can respond to the hypoxia but in a gradual way. An athlete needs about 2-3 weeks in one to see any response and the results can be mild. The idea of turning positive for CERA just because you did a turbo session, well that's hilarious.ratherbeintobago wrote:Being pedantic, a hyperbaric tent a) simulates being at depth*...0
