Doping - Spanish Cover Up

daviesee

"30% of clients were cyclists, so who are the other 70%?"

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/others ... trial.html

CiB

What sort of question is that? Only cycling suffers from doping. Any fule know that.

Like the comments, implying that the success of the Spanish at various sports - football, tennis, F1 anyone? - might be linked in some way to their enthusiasm for sweeping it all under the carpet and focussing only on cycling. Neat trick.

daviesee

Like the UCI, other sports governing bodies could do something but choose not to. :evil:
Ostriches.

pdstsp

daviesee wrote:

Ostriches.

What sort of dope were they using? Presumably growth hormone - explains the necks.

Monkeypump

pdstsp wrote:

daviesee wrote:

Ostriches.

What sort of dope were they using? Presumably growth hormone - explains the necks.

Not so much EPO, more EMU?

bristolpete

For me Barcelona of a few years back were juiced right up. They were destroying all, running harder faster longer and beating decent teams 4/5/6 - 0.

The manager Pep Guardiola was banned as a player when playing in Italy for after serving a four-match ban for testing positive for Nandrolone. It was also suggested they (players) were using EPO.

Ben6899

bristolpete wrote:

For me Barcelona of a few years back were juiced right up. They were destroying all, running harder faster longer and beating decent teams 4/5/6 - 0.

The manager Pep Guardiola was banned as a player when playing in Italy for after serving a four-match ban for testing positive for Nandrolone. It was also suggested they (players) were using EPO.

I have the same suspicions. Okay skill is what you're born with, but when I have watched Barcelona from that era make other teams - from a fitness viewpoint - look like the Royal Oak Sunday team, then I can't help but wonder what the hell is going on.

One team exhausted, the other (Barcelona) just strolling off the pitch after ~95mins. Being the better team and keeping the ball can play a part here, but not to this extent.