Aleksandr Kolobnev (Katusha) tests positive in Tour

ademort

Aleksandr Kolobnev (Katusha) has tested positive for drugs during the first week of the Tour it has just been announced. Oh No here we go again. :oops:
Ademort

redddraggon

http://www.bikeradar.com/forum/viewtopi ... highlight=

ademort

:oops: Sorry didn,t see that.
Ademort

sharky1029

Well thats the fourth member of my fantasy cycling team to have something wrong with them.
First wiggo adn then zabriski and van den broeck.

airwise

I saw Katusha training near St Moritz a few weeks ago. This doesn't surprise me.

ddraver

Comment

Ah ben voilà, retour à la normale!

Says it all really!

iainf72

Embroiled in an ongoing criminal investigation in Spain, isn't he? One of the dodgy doctors patients

Pokerface

So is it a banned substance or not?

He can continue to compete?

andrewjoseph

Pokerface wrote:

So is it a banned substance or not?

He can continue to compete?

As far as i can see it is a banned substance, he can continue to race until the results of B sample confirm positive, then he will be sanctioned. if B sample does not confirm, no action.

rider can comply now and admit to doping or request B sample analysis.

iainf72

The poh-leese are at the teams hotel.

samb01

No surprise: http://www.bikeradar.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=16117999#16117999

Btw, yesterday's stage winner LL Sanchez has also been linked to Jesus Losa.

iainf72

He's been booted from race it seems

Doobz

Doesn't Team Katusha have the Clause in the Contract that all its riders agree to pay five-times their annual salary in the event of a positive doping test?

I remember Steegmans took them to court over it. Not sure if its still in their current riders contracts!

I hope he Kolobnev has a fair few quid stashed away if it is the case..

avoidingmyphd

iainf72 wrote:

He's been booted from race it seems

Yep, AFP and L'Equipe both say so.
Inner Ring say Katusha has fired him

Jean-René Bernaudeau is good value on this. He says it's a "cultural problem" in some teams, points out that Kolobnev is not exactly a medic, and must have taken it because someone told him to.

davelakers

redddraggon wrote:

http://www.bikeradar.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12789156&highlight=

I feel unloved.............

I start a thread first and Im ignored.

All hail Ademort. :roll:

andyp

Doobz wrote:

Doesn't Team Katusha have the Clause in the Contract that all its riders agree to pay five-times their annual salary in the event of a positive doping test?

I remember Steegmans took them to court over it. Not sure if its still in their current riders contracts!

I hope he Kolobnev has a fair few quid stashed away if it is the case..

They do, but it's utterly unenforceable so is not worth the paper it's written on.

It's a pathetic attempt by a dirty team to look like they are tough on doping.

hstiles

I've seen Rocky IV so I know all about Russians and doping.

rozzer32

andyp wrote:

Doobz wrote:

Doesn't Team Katusha have the Clause in the Contract that all its riders agree to pay five-times their annual salary in the event of a positive doping test?

I remember Steegmans took them to court over it. Not sure if its still in their current riders contracts!

I hope he Kolobnev has a fair few quid stashed away if it is the case..

They do, but it's utterly unenforceable so is not worth the paper it's written on.

It's a pathetic attempt by a dirty team to look like they are tough on doping.

Very true, a shame really because you think the team would want to really discourage doping for the sponsors sake as well as the sport. But as usual the team will just sack him and say how disappointed they are in him.

GoldenBear

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avoidingmyphd

rozzer32 wrote:

Very true, a shame really because you think the team would want to really discourage doping for the sponsors sake as well as the sport. But as usual the team will just sack him and say how disappointed they are in him.

Hahaha. Why on earth would a mercenary collection of gas trading and transporting companies and banks, all impenetrably tangled with the Russian state, want their vanity project to give out an antidoping message?

rozzer32

Sorry I didn't aim it all at Katusha. I just meant all these team doping clauses that riders have in their contacts that the team can't enforce.

rick_chasey

I was saying this over dinner this evening - we're due a positive or two.


Do people care about this one? Can't say I have any reaction to this - just non.

*shrugs*

RichN95.

Rick Chasey wrote:

Do people care about this one? Can't say I have any reaction to this - just non.

*shrugs*

Same for me.

Doobz

http://www.katushateam.com/2011/eng/mai ... news&n=736

Alexander Kolobnev suspended himself
Team Katusha rider Alexander Kolobnev, after testing positive for a diuretic at a medical examination during the Tour de France’s first week, decided to suspend himself according to UCI rules, waiting for the B-sample. At the moment, Team management and the rider have no further comment. It has to be noticed that internal rules in Team Katusha say that the rider, if the B-sample also tests positive, he will be fired and will have to pay five times his salary as a fine. The President of the sport group Andrei Tchmil went voluntarily to the police, together with Kolobnev and his room-mate Silin, in order to translate and reinforce the fact that he and the team are not involved to the contested facts.

iainf72

He scored a 5 on the suspicion index, same as Wiggins and Contador.

rick_chasey

iainf72 wrote:

He scored a 5 on the suspicion index, same as Wiggins and Contador.

You're stirring today!

afx237vi

RichN95 wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

Do people care about this one? Can't say I have any reaction to this - just non.

*shrugs*

Same for me.

Me too. David Harmon will be all sombre tones tomorrow though.

rick_chasey

afx237vi wrote:

RichN95 wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

Do people care about this one? Can't say I have any reaction to this - just non.

*shrugs*

Same for me.

Me too. David Harmon will be all sombre tones tomorrow though.

His dope chat grates.

I'd prefer a Ligget and Sherwan style "he doped, it's a shame. Anyway, this château..."

jamlala

Rick Chasey wrote:

afx237vi wrote:

RichN95 wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

Do people care about this one? Can't say I have any reaction to this - just non.

*shrugs*

Same for me.

Me too. David Harmon will be all sombre tones tomorrow though.

His dope chat grates.

I'd prefer a Ligget and Sherwan style "he doped, it's a shame. Anyway, this château..."

Totally agree here however!!

timoid.

Rick Chasey wrote:

afx237vi wrote:

RichN95 wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

Do people care about this one? Can't say I have any reaction to this - just non.

*shrugs*

Same for me.

Me too. David Harmon will be all sombre tones tomorrow though.

His dope chat grates.

I'd prefer a Ligget and Sherwan style "he doped, it's a shame. Anyway, this château..."

True

Kléber

He's a reasonably big name rider, not many wins but often present at the pointy end of a race. Hopefully it'll put the spotlight on this most shady of teams.

Tested positve for a diuretic but I bet his pi55ing himself now.