Stage 12 Giro d'Italia 2015 *SPOILERS*

frenchfighter

Blow your socks off photos from Yuzuru Sunada!

frenchfighter

Aru's facial expression!


Should nickname him the catfish

pinarello001 wrote:

Who's the dwarf between Gilbert and Contador?

joelsim

Kung out for 3 to 4 months with fractured vertebrae after a crash during yesterday's stage. Shame.

the article don

A much derided and over-used term on here but that was an exhibition of pure "panache" from Gilbert

frenchfighter

Cycling photos are so good when it rains.

dish_dash

Surely you don't get a 2-year suspension for 1 missed test...
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/giro-di ... ng-control

TheBigBean

dish_dash wrote:

Surely you don't get a 2-year suspension for 1 missed test...
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/giro-di ... ng-control

You do for in competition tests. See Bassons as a famous example (well, he didn't get a two year ban). This has to be the case or else you dope yourself to the eyeballs and simply fail to go to testing if called later.

dish_dash

TheBigBean wrote:

dish_dash wrote:

Surely you don't get a 2-year suspension for 1 missed test...
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/giro-di ... ng-control

You do for in competition tests. See Bassons as a famous example (well, he didn't get a two year ban). This has to be the case or else you dope yourself to the eyeballs and simply fail to go to testing if called later.

Ah gotcha. Yep makes total sense. Now you put it like that it reminds me, wasn't there a guy in the UK who got suspended for missing an in competition test (something about needing to get back to his missus)?

frenchfighter

Pross

dish_dash wrote:

TheBigBean wrote:

dish_dash wrote:

Surely you don't get a 2-year suspension for 1 missed test...
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/giro-di ... ng-control

You do for in competition tests. See Bassons as a famous example (well, he didn't get a two year ban). This has to be the case or else you dope yourself to the eyeballs and simply fail to go to testing if called later.

Ah gotcha. Yep makes total sense. Now you put it like that it reminds me, wasn't there a guy in the UK who got suspended for missing an in competition test (something about needing to get back to his missus)?

Yes, that was Marcel Six and the same has also happened more recently with Jason White. I don't see the point in refusing the test, you get the full ban as if you tested positive whilst if you give one there's always a chance something might get missed or messed up in the process.

dish_dash

Pross wrote:

dish_dash wrote:

TheBigBean wrote:

dish_dash wrote:

Surely you don't get a 2-year suspension for 1 missed test...
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/giro-di ... ng-control

You do for in competition tests. See Bassons as a famous example (well, he didn't get a two year ban). This has to be the case or else you dope yourself to the eyeballs and simply fail to go to testing if called later.

Ah gotcha. Yep makes total sense. Now you put it like that it reminds me, wasn't there a guy in the UK who got suspended for missing an in competition test (something about needing to get back to his missus)?

Yes, that was Marcel Six and the same has also happened more recently with Jason White. I don't see the point in refusing the test, you get the full ban as if you tested positive whilst if you give one there's always a chance something might get missed or messed up in the process.

Daft I agree, but I guess you could always maintain that you had never tested positive and it was all a bureaucratic conspiracy/cockup... people's minds work in strange ways.