GVA doping Ban?

frenchfighter

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/belgian ... n-avermaet

dish_dash

Just to clarify, he hasn't been banned yet. The 2yr ban is the prosecution request, not the result of the commission.

I did lol that he's been taking* illegal 'fortifying baby food' as well as UV treatment... *damn forgot to add allegedly...

qube

Jeezo, let's hope this doesn't happen. After such a fine ride at P-R too.

above_the_cows

Ah one of my irrational cycling fan hatreds. One of My Anti-Men

I just don't like his face.

dish_dash

Above The Cows wrote:

Ah one of my irrational cycling fan hatreds. One of My Anti-Men

I just don't like his face.

And the rest?

RichN95.

It's a bizarre case that one. I'm not sure he's done anything wrong. I don't think he'll get a two year ban - maybe a short ban.

the article don

Full marks for capitalised, dramatic thread title which is completely inaccurate

above_the_cows

dish_dash wrote:

Above The Cows wrote:

Ah one of my irrational cycling fan hatreds. One of My Anti-Men

I just don't like his face.

And the rest?

Put it away! :shock:

No, no, no, no, no!

ddraver

the article don wrote:

Full marks for capitalised, dramatic thread title which is completely inaccurate

If Frenchie ever loses a billion pounds and gets sacked he has potential writing clickbait...

dish_dash

ddraver wrote:

the article don wrote:

Full marks for capitalised, dramatic thread title which is completely inaccurate

If Frenchie ever loses a billion pounds and gets sacked he has potential writing clickbait...

Potential?!?!? There are days I wonder whether the forum owners have him on retainer... :P

mm1

Has the clinic exploded yet? More importantly have they invented a link to Sky?

frenchfighter

Ashbeck

So they want a 2 year ban based purely on an email exchange with Dr. Mertens and some cream for a foot problem?

Give me a break. If that was the case my Mrs would want a divorce, the house and custody of the kids based on some of my emails to her best mate.

What's happened to innocent until proven guilty these days? christ, I had better not go for a coffee with anyone for fear they work in the pharmaceutical industry and everyone thinks I'm trying to gain an advantage at the London Ride100 :roll:

The_Boy

mm1 wrote:

More importantly have they invented a link to Sky?

Why would they do that? We already know Sky have Ferrari on retainer.

salsiccia1

Ashbeck wrote:

So they want a 2 year ban based purely on an email exchange with Dr. Mertens and come cream for a foot problem?

:shock:

Ashbeck

Salsiccia1 wrote:

Ashbeck wrote:

So they want a 2 year ban based purely on an email exchange with Dr. Mertens and come cream for a foot problem?

:shock:

sorry, thats what happens sitting in work rush-typing!

jimmythecuckoo

oh my

RichN95.

Come cream isn't banned if it's taken orally. Only injecting it is banned. At least that's what Bill Clinton reckons.

Ashbeck

RichN95 wrote:

Come cream isn't banned if it's taken orally. Only injecting it is banned. At least that's what Bill Clinton reckons.

I wonder if Hilary thinks the same way.

Anonymous

Here's my favourite from the clinic thread.


tough for Van Avermaet.
pays big bucks to gear up on AICAR, EPO and god knows what else.
manages to mask it succesfully.
gets busted for Diprophos.
sees guys like Froome skate with fasttracked TUEs for similar products.

the article don

^ that right there is just people displaying mental illness in a public forum. The chilling thing is how rational they think it all is and how opinions sensibile to probably 99% of people are laughed out of town. Loonballs.

ozzzyosborn206

the article don wrote:

Full marks for capitalised, dramatic thread title which is completely inaccurate

except its not inaccurate because he put a question mark at the end of the title........

ddraver

ozzzyosborn206 wrote:

the article don wrote:

Full marks for capitalised, dramatic thread title which is completely inaccurate

except its not inaccurate because he put a question mark at the end of the title........

look closelyer...

Pokerface

Whilst I won't rush to judgement on whether he did anything wrong (whatever he did or didn't do), I also won't put a lot of stock in any article that CyclingNews writes and use that as a rock-solid basis for forming an opinion.

If/when actual facts come out about the case, and when a verdict is handed down, THEN I'll rush to judgement.

Mad_Malx

Pokerface wrote:

If/when actual facts come out about the case, and when a verdict is handed down, THEN I'll rush to judgement.

You haven't got the hang of this internet forum thing, have you?

crikey

Although the Clinic does appear to be the haunt of the eternally suspicious, it's probably a simple opposite of here, where the very idea that anyone involved in pro-cycling might possibly be doping seems to be a strange and unthinkable thing.

It's pro-cycling, there have been, are now and probably always will be dopers, and the 'good guys' are just as likely as anyone else to be at it....

iainf72

crikey wrote:

Although the Clinic does appear to be the haunt of the eternally suspicious, it's probably a simple opposite of here, where the very idea that anyone involved in pro-cycling might possibly be doping seems to be a strange and unthinkable thing.

It's pro-cycling, there have been, are now and probably always will be dopers, and the 'good guys' are just as likely as anyone else to be at it....

I don't think there is a single person here who doesn't think there is doping in pro cycling.

Macaloon

crikey wrote:

Although the Clinic does appear to be the haunt of the eternally suspicious, it's probably a simple opposite of here, where the very idea that anyone involved in pro-cycling might possibly be doping seems to be a strange and unthinkable thing.

It's pro-cycling, there have been, are now and probably always will be dopers, and the 'good guys' are just as likely as anyone else to be at it....

I don't think that's the case at all. Any plausible issue raised in the clinic has been discussed here. Any new development would get the same treatment. There hasn't been a new development, bar the ususal positives, for several years.

Also this is a cycling forum and tends to attract people into cycling. The Clinic is a doping forum and attracts what you'd expect.

crikey

This is probably a subject for a different place and a different day, but I see many people on cycling forums, especially in the UK, who assume that doping began and ended with Lance.

A lifetime of following cycling leads to a healthy scepticism about any rider, regardless of how nice/young/credible/virtuous/outspoken/British they might be...

iainf72

Sure.

And people here are sceptical when it's warranted. Going the clinic route and saying everyone is doping is cowardly and stupid.

salsiccia1

crikey wrote:

A lifetime of following cycling leads to a healthy scepticism about any rider, regardless of how nice/young/credible/virtuous/outspoken/British they might be...

Indeed. But in contrast to the clinic we don't automatically assume everyone is on the gear, and it isn't the whole basis for our 'interest' in the sport. I'd like to think most of us on here actually like the sport, and enjoy it as that: sport.