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mike340 · 02-03-2007, 04:20 AM

If anybody would like to see a sport having a disastrous time with doping issues look at cycling. Landis's tests look like they were shoddy work by a French lab out to get Zidane off the front pages worldwide. (The same one, by the way, that kept on trying and failing to get Armstrong.) In the meantime Dick Pound (world Wada chief) is being an idiot and an asshole, declaring that riders are guilty who have never failed a test and some who have never been under suspicion. One of the favorites this year in the Tour de France was not allowed to race because quite a lot of his teammates were under "suspicion" in relation to "Operacion Puerto" (a drug sting in Spain), but in the end his teammates were exonerated. In a great tragedy, the Spanish police are not giving out information, leaving those riders who might "possibly" be implicated unable to ride due to the code of ethics of cycling. (If you are suspected then you cannot ride!)

As far as that community goes, HGH testing is standard, and there don't seem to be too many questions about it except if the lab was sloppy. (It did a horrible job in Landis's drug case.)

It would be kind of ironic if cyclists regularly get blood tests and football players are too afraid of needles to get a blood draw.

02-03-2007, 04:20 AM	#10
mike340 Special Teams Join Date: Jun 2006 Age: 69 Posts: 322	Re: Upshaw's Opposition to Blood Testing for HGH If anybody would like to see a sport having a disastrous time with doping issues look at cycling. Landis's tests look like they were shoddy work by a French lab out to get Zidane off the front pages worldwide. (The same one, by the way, that kept on trying and failing to get Armstrong.) In the meantime Dick Pound (world Wada chief) is being an idiot and an asshole, declaring that riders are guilty who have never failed a test and some who have never been under suspicion. One of the favorites this year in the Tour de France was not allowed to race because quite a lot of his teammates were under "suspicion" in relation to "Operacion Puerto" (a drug sting in Spain), but in the end his teammates were exonerated. In a great tragedy, the Spanish police are not giving out information, leaving those riders who might "possibly" be implicated unable to ride due to the code of ethics of cycling. (If you are suspected then you cannot ride!) As far as that community goes, HGH testing is standard, and there don't seem to be too many questions about it except if the lab was sloppy. (It did a horrible job in Landis's drug case.) It would be kind of ironic if cyclists regularly get blood tests and football players are too afraid of needles to get a blood draw.