Comments on: How is Doping Like a Pregnancy?

By: todd

todd — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:16:59 +0000

It’s not like pregnancy at all! After the nine month of terror fear adjusting and acceptance you aren’t left with something you can cherish for life.
Aka, its worse!
Being a male I’d sooner be pregnant!. Being a cyclist, I wish I’d taken up tidily winks!

By: cosmo

cosmo — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 18:40:31 +0000

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By: LeGimpe

LeGimpe — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:44:51 +0000

Not to mention all the gynecologists.

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:15:24 +0000

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By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:13:41 +0000
Tommy: Rebellin won Flèche Wallonne about 10 days before CONI ~~announced~~ leaked Rebellin's CERA positive from the Olympics. The IOC didn't start testing the Olympics samples until January (as Susan alluded).

By: Tommy

Tommy — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:48:44 +0000

I’m an avid cyclist, but I am so sick of hearing about guys continually testing positive. I don’t care if its just the A sample—-I don’t want to wait for the B sample, and I can’t honestly keep up with who has tested positive on the A, is waiting for the B, is contesting the charges, and who is appealing to a higher court.
It’s so damaging to ALL riders when a leader tests positive. Totally demoralizing.
The timeframe needs to be sped up, though, so that we don’t have to wait a pregnancy’s time to find out what’s going on. If Rebellin tested positive at the Olympics, then why in the world is he allowed to race the Fleche Wallonne?
I am so sick of positive tests!

By: Susan

Susan — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:17:17 +0000

Of course, testing the samples didn’t take 9 months. They went back to the stored samples with a new test.

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:54:19 +0000

Thank you for the level-headed commentary on doping. Solving the doping problem needs to be balanced with the riders’ due process rights.

The holier-than-thou and over-the-top outrage at the first leak of a non-negative/positive “A” sample isn’t productive; Neither is the declaration: “He tested positive once now every one of his results are suspect.”

Agreed on the need for a more timely testing process. It would have been nice if Schumacher’s TdF positive test precluded him from competing in the Olympics.

By: cosmo

cosmo — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:27:10 +0000

Dan,

Thank you for your thoughtful and nuanced feeback.

Landis and Hamilton were found to have broken the rules through the established process, even after exhausting their attempts at appeal. Despite my skepticism of the Vanishing Twin and Jack Daniels defenses, I extended them a nominal assumption innocence.

By the same token, I’m unwilling to condemn Rebellin as a doper until he has had his day in court, if he chooses to take it.

By: Dan Fourney

Dan Fourney — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:14:29 +0000

Are you serioulsy trying to say that Davide might be innocent? Let’s see….positive test from Beijing, Gerolsteiner took away it’s sponsorship early because of CERA doping on his team…37 years old and losing a step…don’t be a moron, you moron! Let me guess – you still think Hamilton adn Landis got a bum rap too?!