Mazzocchi caught for doping...
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...in a Granfondo
You will be asking yourself "who's Mazzocchi?" and it was the same question that most of italian people asked themself when in the summer of 2011 he won the Maratona dles Dolomites.
Nothing wrong with winning a big Granfondo event but the strange thing is that the previous year he arrived at something like 50 minutes from the winner and not any other result to compare with.
Well, yesterday he was sanctioned by italian Olympic commitee to a 2 years ban for being caught for Epo at a small Granfondo near Belluno this summer.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-YirFzrVGZNY/U ... rivo02.jpg
You will be asking yourself "who's Mazzocchi?" and it was the same question that most of italian people asked themself when in the summer of 2011 he won the Maratona dles Dolomites.
Nothing wrong with winning a big Granfondo event but the strange thing is that the previous year he arrived at something like 50 minutes from the winner and not any other result to compare with.
Well, yesterday he was sanctioned by italian Olympic commitee to a 2 years ban for being caught for Epo at a small Granfondo near Belluno this summer.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-YirFzrVGZNY/U ... rivo02.jpg
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2nd winner in 3 years caught.
Pathetic. That said, there is money in it, so it's not surprisingFckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.0 -
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Remember that you are an Englishman and thus have won first prize in the lottery of life.0
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OffTheBackAdam wrote:
Think sportives are run slightly differently over in Europe. Think they are more like races with prize money for the top finishers.***** Pro Tour Pundit Champion 2020, 2018, 2017 & 2011 *****0 -
Riders like Jamie Burrow and Raimondo Rumsas are paid to ride GFs, i.e. essentially are still full time pros. Given the prize money available and the attitude to doping in Italy, it is surely no surprise that riders dope to do well.0
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It goes way beyond that level, though. A few years ago, there was some over-50s rider busted for EPO use on a granfondoandyp wrote:Riders like Jamie Burrow and Raimondo Rumsas are paid to ride GFs, i.e. essentially are still full time pros. Given the prize money available and the attitude to doping in Italy, it is surely no surprise that riders dope to do well.'This week I 'ave been mostly been climbing like Basso - Shirley Basso.'0 -
LangerDan wrote:
It goes way beyond that level, though. A few years ago, there was some over-50s rider busted for EPO use on a granfondoandyp wrote:Riders like Jamie Burrow and Raimondo Rumsas are paid to ride GFs, i.e. essentially are still full time pros. Given the prize money available and the attitude to doping in Italy, it is surely no surprise that riders dope to do well.
This year too - Masters rider called David Antony tested postive for EPO at the Gran Fondo New York (to the embarassment of nyvelocity.com as he was associated to them in some way)0 -
So are they testing these riders harder than the pros or is it just that they lack the technical support to cover up the EPO usage?0
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Those shorts :roll:0
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Pross wrote:So are they testing these riders harder than the pros or is it just that they lack the technical support to cover up the EPO usage?
Yup. Presumably the tests are less good too so they take more risks.
I got the impression from the Hamilton book that the EPO tests forced everyone towards blood transfusions instead.0 -
Rick Chasey wrote:I got the impression from the Hamilton book that the EPO tests forced everyone towards blood transfusions instead.
It's combined. If you take the EPO I/V the risks of being nabbed are low.Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.0 -
Pross wrote:So are they testing these riders harder than the pros or is it just that they lack the technical support to cover up the EPO usage?
What do you think the pro teams have doctors for. Their job is to make sure they don't fail the drug tests.0 -
iainf72 wrote:Rick Chasey wrote:I got the impression from the Hamilton book that the EPO tests forced everyone towards blood transfusions instead.
It's combined. If you take the EPO I/V the risks of being nabbed are low.
Fair enough, I bow to your cutting edge knowledge...
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I don't get it, why would you take EPO in such a way that you were still glowing at the event? Just use it during training blocks, don't get caught, don't look like a prat.
It takes what, 8 days to leave the system if you do it into fat, 24 hrs intra venously
As far as I'm aware, he's not going to get testers turning up at home, just at events. Surely doping as an amateur should be fairly easy.
Does Ricco ride any Granfondos? Or are they all UCI accredited.You live and learn. At any rate, you live0 -
Jez mon wrote:I don't get it, why would you take EPO in such a way that you were still glowing at the event? Just use it during training blocks, don't get caught, don't look like a prat.
It takes what, 8 days to leave the system if you do it into fat, 24 hrs intra venously
As far as I'm aware, he's not going to get testers turning up at home, just at events. Surely doping as an amateur should be fairly easy.
Does Ricco ride any Granfondos? Or are they all UCI accredited.
He's certainly been trying...
http://www.velonation.com/News/ID/11722 ... Fondo.aspx0 -
It does seem odd, I suppose he's either very stupid, of he thought he'd gone IV but missed the vein. Maybe he just thought they wouldn't bother with an EPO test. It must be expensive to test for all possibilities, and I assume they test only for certain things at different times.0
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Interesting. I was in that 2011 Maratona and a number of riders in the top 10 actually tested positive but not Mazzocchi.he must have let his guard down for that smaller gran fondo.....0
