Has there been any doping in women's racing?

chrisaonabike
chrisaonabike Posts: 1,914
edited November 2012 in Pro race
Apols for the newb question, but has there been anything to compare with the doping in the men's over the last 20 years or so?

I've been reading more and more about men's racing in the last few weeks, but haven't come across anything like that.
Is the gorilla tired yet?

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  • LangerDan
    LangerDan Posts: 6,132
    In before the mandatory Tammy Thomas photo......
    'This week I 'ave been mostly been climbing like Basso - Shirley Basso.'
  • chrisaonabike
    chrisaonabike Posts: 1,914
    LangerDan wrote:
    In before the mandatory Tammy Thomas photo......
    OMG, I've had a google... :shock: :shock: :shock:

    Question still stands though - though there are occurrences, I gather it's nothing like on the same scale?
    Is the gorilla tired yet?
  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    ChrisAOnABike wrote:
    LangerDan wrote:
    In before the mandatory Tammy Thomas photo......
    OMG, I've had a google... :shock: :shock: :shock:

    Question still stands though - though there are occurrences, I gather it's nothing like on the same scale?


    No - for starters there's bugger all money in womens cycling
  • greasedscotsman
    greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genevi%C3%A8ve_Jeanson
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    Jeannie Longo anyone?
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    Basically there are a small number of cases but nothing even remotely approaching the levels in mens cycling through the last 2 decades.
  • thomthom
    thomthom Posts: 3,574
    There's doping in every sport. Also in women's cycling.
  • skylla
    skylla Posts: 758
    Longo
  • inkyfingers
    inkyfingers Posts: 4,400
    Richmond Racer wrote:
    ChrisAOnABike wrote:
    LangerDan wrote:
    In before the mandatory Tammy Thomas photo......
    OMG, I've had a google... :shock: :shock: :shock:

    Question still stands though - though there are occurrences, I gather it's nothing like on the same scale?


    No - for starters there's bugger all money in womens cycling

    People dope in sportives, so I don't buy that argument.
    "I have a lovely photo of a Camargue horse but will not post it now" (Frenchfighter - July 2013)
  • bipedal
    bipedal Posts: 466
    Richmond Racer wrote:
    ChrisAOnABike wrote:
    LangerDan wrote:
    In before the mandatory Tammy Thomas photo......
    OMG, I've had a google... :shock: :shock: :shock:

    Question still stands though - though there are occurrences, I gather it's nothing like on the same scale?


    No - for starters there's bugger all money in womens cycling

    Sorry but that's nonsense! There's doping in amateur cycling, where there's no money at all, there's definitely doping in women's cycling... although perhaps not on quite such an industrial scale
  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    all right, all right Inky and bipedal...I did mean that doping wasnt happening on the same scale

    sheesh, give a fellow forumite a break :wink:
  • inkyfingers
    inkyfingers Posts: 4,400
    Richmond Racer wrote:
    all right, all right Inky and bipedal...I did mean that doping wasnt happening on the same scale

    sheesh, give a fellow forumite a break :wink:

    But you were wrong, it is my internet duty to put you right!
    "I have a lovely photo of a Camargue horse but will not post it now" (Frenchfighter - July 2013)
  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    inkyfingers wrote:
    Richmond Racer wrote:
    all right, all right Inky and bipedal...I did mean that doping wasnt happening on the same scale

    sheesh, give a fellow forumite a break :wink:

    But you were wrong, it is my internet duty to put you right!


    Consider it done!
  • greasedscotsman
    greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
    What about Jeannie Longo? Has anyone mentioned her yet? :shock:
  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    greasedscotsman wrote:
    What about Jeannie Longo? Has anyone mentioned her yet? :shock:


    BUT IT WAS HER HUSBAND

    or summat

    and that silly old ADAMS system...easy for an athlete to get it wrong

    :roll: :roll:
  • TimB34
    TimB34 Posts: 316
    Jeannie Longo did not test positive - she missed a couple of whereabouts submissions, and then her husband (and coach) was done for buying EPO (he claimed it was so he could keep up with her on training rides or something similar!)

    Edit : although her and his suspensions were both later dismissed.
  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    TimB34 wrote:
    Jeannie Longo did not test positive - she missed a couple of whereabouts submissions, and then her husband (and coach) was done for buying EPO (he claimed it was so he could keep up with her on training rides or something similar!)

    Edit : although her and his suspensions were both later dismissed.


    Yes. Anyone would think that her career lasting 105 years was helped along artificially
  • greasedscotsman
    greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
    What about Andy Schleck? He's just a big girl, isn't he? :D

    (well, someone had to do it...)
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,818
    I seem to recall this one cause quite a stir.
    First time that there was talk of booting cycling out of
    the Olympics:
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2008/au ... mpics20083
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • mrushton
    mrushton Posts: 5,182
    Yes but as stated, not on the same scale. There was an interview with Marianne Vos some time back in ProCycling and she talked about certain riders suddenly improving.
    M.Rushton
  • Paul 8v
    Paul 8v Posts: 5,458
    LangerDan wrote:
    In before the mandatory Tammy Thomas photo......
    Jesus f%^k that's a bloke surely? Looks like a mullet sporting WWE fan...
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  • OffTheBackAdam
    OffTheBackAdam Posts: 1,869
    Christ on a pushbike! "Tammy"?
    I have a vague memory of one of the top women being positive for weight-control drugs.
    Remember that you are an Englishman and thus have won first prize in the lottery of life.
  • stagehopper
    stagehopper Posts: 1,593
    OffTheBackAdam wrote:
    Christ on a pushbike! "Tammy"?
    I have a vague memory of one of the top women being positive for weight-control drugs.

    Think that was the young World Champ at the time Bastienelli (sp.) about 4 years or so back.
    @stagehopper
  • davidof
    davidof Posts: 3,042
    There was talk in the 90s about some of the mountain bikers but following recent events I think it is a bad idea to mention names without any real evidence.
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  • emadden
    emadden Posts: 2,431
    greasedscotsman wrote:
    What about Andy Schleck? He's just a big girl, isn't he? :D

    (well, someone had to do it...)

    Love it.... Hit nail on head :D
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