Stefan van Dijk / 8 year ban

iainf72
iainf72 Posts: 15,784
edited December 2013 in Pro race
For ozone therapy shenanigans

2nd offence.

http://www.nieuwsblad.be/sportwereld/cn ... gn=seeding
Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.

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  • specialgueststar
    specialgueststar Posts: 3,418
    2010_Stefan_van_Dijk.jpg
  • mulletmaster
    mulletmaster Posts: 502
    What a waste of time that is.
  • deejay
    deejay Posts: 3,138
    mulletmaster wrote:
    What a waste of time that is.
    Will this help a little. ??
    googletranslation wrote:
    With a needle

    Ozone therapy has been around since the eighties . Blood is drained , enriched with ozone and injected again . Professor Peter Van Eenoo , head of the dopinglab Ghent : " Ozone therapy is not explicitly on the doping list . But if you take his blood and inject again , it may fall under a blood transfusion . And that is forbidden . Moreover, a cyclist to comply with the no - needle policy of the UCI . "And Van Dijk admits there was a needle is involved. "Using a needle and a hose in my vein blood was drawn off ."
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  • thomthom
    thomthom Posts: 3,574
    edited November 2013
    That's one ugly fella'.
  • dave milne
    dave milne Posts: 703
    is this the same thing Kittel had done?
  • rayjay
    rayjay Posts: 1,384
    Kittel took a lie detector test and passed.

    Who knows?
  • Art Vandelay
    Art Vandelay Posts: 1,982
    rayjay wrote:
    Kittel took a lie detector test and passed.

    Who knows?

    Erm, no. It was a completely different treatment - UV light treatment on small amounts of blood withdrawn. Completely ineffective quack procedure.
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,445
    Art Vandelay wrote:
    Erm, no. It was a completely different treatment - UV light treatment on small amounts of blood withdrawn. Completely ineffective quack procedure.
    Ozone therapy is not explicitly on the doping list . But if you take his blood and inject again , it may fall under a blood transfusion . And that is forbidden

    Sorry. What difference does it make what is done to the blood when it's withdraw.

    Is it a quantity issue?
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  • thomthom
    thomthom Posts: 3,574
    TailWindHome wrote:
    Art Vandelay wrote:
    Erm, no. It was a completely different treatment - UV light treatment on small amounts of blood withdrawn. Completely ineffective quack procedure.
    Ozone therapy is not explicitly on the doping list . But if you take his blood and inject again , it may fall under a blood transfusion . And that is forbidden

    Sorry. What difference does it make what is done to the blood when it's withdraw.

    Is it a quantity issue?

    http://inrng.com/2012/01/blood-irradiation-explained/
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    ThomThom wrote:
    That's one ugly fella'.

    That's without mentioning the awful Cockney accent.
  • Mad_Malx
    Mad_Malx Posts: 5,183
    TailWindHome wrote:
    Art Vandelay wrote:
    Erm, no. It was a completely different treatment - UV light treatment on small amounts of blood withdrawn. Completely ineffective quack procedure.
    Ozone therapy is not explicitly on the doping list . But if you take his blood and inject again , it may fall under a blood transfusion . And that is forbidden

    Sorry. What difference does it make what is done to the blood when it's withdraw.

    Is it a quantity issue?

    My guess is that taking blood out and doing just about anything to it (UV, ozone or whatever) will switch on stress response genes. However, this will only really be in the cells taken out, which is only going to be about 5% of the body's blood. You might get a bit of a knock-on effect on the rest of the body on reinfusion. Since blood cells don't make much in the way of EPO, steroids or growth hormone, it really is pretty unlikely that either procedure (IF that's all that they are doing) will have any significant physiological benefit, but the psychological advantage (I'm having this great new supplement...) may make a difference to some.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,538
    afx237vi wrote:
    ThomThom wrote:
    That's one ugly fella'.

    That's without mentioning the awful Cockney accent.

    Damn, beaten to it. Was going to say that should have got life!
  • mulletmaster
    mulletmaster Posts: 502
    deejay wrote:
    mulletmaster wrote:
    What a waste of time that is.
    Will this help a little. ??
    googletranslation wrote:
    With a needle

    Ozone therapy has been around since the eighties . Blood is drained , enriched with ozone and injected again . Professor Peter Van Eenoo , head of the dopinglab Ghent : " Ozone therapy is not explicitly on the doping list . But if you take his blood and inject again , it may fall under a blood transfusion . And that is forbidden . Moreover, a cyclist to comply with the no - needle policy of the UCI . "And Van Dijk admits there was a needle is involved. "Using a needle and a hose in my vein blood was drawn off ."
    I meant the procedure he got banned for rather than the link, sorry.

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