Doping #44 Waar we topics openen met terugwerkende kracht..

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Op maandag 16 april 2012 15:57 schreef franklop het volgende:
Galymzianov betrapt op epo

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Galimzyanov admits EPO usage in signed statement, waives B sample

Says Katusha team had nothing to do with case

Denis GalimzyanovRussian sprinter Denis Galimzyanov has admitted using EPO prior to his positive test on March 22nd, and has waived his right to have the B sample analysed.

His Katusha team has released a written admission it says was completed by the rider, in which he speaks about the matter and apologises to the squad and his fans.

The statement also underlines that he acted independently of the team.

A copy of the statement has been sent to VeloNation, and reads as follows:

Letter of explanation

I, the undersigned Denis Galimzyanov, rider of Katusha Team, want to clear up the current matter with my positive doping tests. On March 22, 2012, being in Italy, I received a visit from antidoping control officers in an out of competition time. A month later, a urine sample taken during that visit indicated EPO.

I recognize a fact of banned substance usage.

I fully realized what I did.

I deeply regret about what happened, and I apologize to the whole team and my teammates, along with my fans whom I disappointed.

I am ready to suffer an appropriate punishment.

I would like to draw A PARTICULAR ATTENTION for that fact that Katusha Team has nothing to do with what happened. No team member knew and could know about what I did. It was my personal decision and my responsibility.

I refuse my right to request and attend the analysis of my B sample.

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Under UCI rules, Galimzyanov’s admission means that he is now officially suspended from racing and no longer part of the Katusha team. He is facing ban of two years or longer; the UCI stated in the past that it favoured the doubling of standard bans.

The team stated earlier today that he had been suspended until such time as the Russian Cycling Federation held a hearing on the matter.

It called on him to cooperate with those investigating the matter. “The Katusha Team strongly recommends the rider to provide a full assistance with authorized anti-doping bodies,” it stated.

Velonation

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Op maandag 16 april 2012 18:33 schreef IkeDubaku99 het volgende:

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Deze armoedzaaier had geen doekoe voor het duurdere spul.

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Op dinsdag 17 april 2012 15:04 schreef ThePlaneteer het volgende:
Waarom nou weer hij zeg, hij was toch wel een coming man in mijn ogen...

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Katusha Doping Positive and Galimzyanov Confession Letter Leave Unresolved Questions
Rising sprinter Denis Galimzyanov tests positive for EPO, claims it was solo act.

By Joe Lindsey

Take a look at this letter:

This is the full confession from Katusha rider Denis Galimzyanov, admitting that he took EPO after getting caught in an anti-doping test.

Galimzyanov is 25, a rising sprinter who had some promising results in 2011 including stage wins at the Three Days of De Panne, Tour of Luxembourg, and Tour of Beijing, as well as victory at Paris-Brussels.

His career is now derailed with a likely two-year suspension.

The letter assumes full responsibility, avoids any specifics of his use of EPO or any other drugs, and pointedly absolves his Katusha team of any involvement in his doping, saying no team member knew of his actions and it was strictly a personal decision to dope.

The letter is posted to the Katusha team’s Facebook wall but not on its website.

Several questions arise:

—The letter was provided by Katusha but no journalist has yet spoken directly to Galimzyanov to confirm that he wrote it. Galimzyanov has not offered any independent public statement other than Katusha’s claimed letter. How do we know Denis wrote this?

—Am I the only one who finds it odd that it’s handwritten? Galimzyanov is a martial artist and classically trained pianist; he’s young, but not stupid. A handwritten letter on unlined paper looks odd, amateurish, even hasty. Typically, such apology letters are sent out via press release, are written by legal or PR advisers, then read at a press conference. There’s a baseness to the language here that sounds authentic and unpolished, but that is circumstantial at best in arguing that Denis wrote this. Under what circumstances was this penned, and by whom?

—Galimzyanov is Katusha’s third EPO positive, after the 2009 tandem of Antonio Colom and Christian Pfannberger (his second positive). A team doctor, Andrei Mikhailov, was arrested in France in 1998 driving a car filled with doping products and received a criminal conviction.

Another rider, Alexander Kolobnev, was involved last December in a sensational story that alleged he sold the 2010 Liege-Bastogne-Liege victory to Alexandre Vinokourov. (Kolobnev also had a positive test for a masking agent from last year’s Tour de France, but even CAS held that it was an inadvertent positive stemming from a product used to treat a pre-existing medical condition; Kolobnev resumed riding for the team in February.)

The UCI promised to investigate but has issued no finding as yet.

Current Katusha team manager Hans Holczer previously helmed the disastrous Gerolsteiner squad, which essentially took a dump on the 2008 Tour de France when star riders Stefan Schumacher (two-time stage winner, yellow jersey) and Bernhard Kohl (King of the Mountains, third overall) tested positive for CERA.

That’s among a lengthy list of infractions over the team’s 1998-2008 run, including Davide Rebellin, Danilo Hondo, the Matschiner affair, and enough investigations to fill a season of Law and Order episodes.

Holczer is one of three things: the unluckiest team manager in the world; the most naive, hapless, and gullible; or actively corrupt. Thus we have a 66 percent chance that Holczer is unfit to be in pro cycling, and a 33 percent chance that you do not want to stand next to him during an electrical storm.

So questions are in order for Katusha and the UCI. For Katusha: With more positives and other ethical incidents than any other current ProTeam, besides Euskaltel or Astana, how can you prove you have what the NCAA likes to call “institutional control” over the team?

For the UCI: Please outline the criteria used to determine a ProTeam applicant’s success or failure under the “ethics” portion of the application. If a team’s license can be reviewed over changes in its sporting standing (Saxo Bank) is it also possible to review a team’s license for ethical infractions?

—Galimzyanov’s letter is unfortunately free of any kind of specifics. Did he take EPO only? On how many occasions did he take the drug, and over how many seasons? Where did he get it?

—In Russia, anti-doping cases in cycling are decided not by an independent body or anti-doping agency but by the Russian Cycling Federation itself. The head of the Russian Cycling Federation is Igor Makarov, who is the owner of the Katusha team (not the NHL prospect or London Business School professor of the same name). How can Makarov and the FSVR claim any kind of impartiality in deciding on Galimzyanov’s sentence? What are they doing to recuse themselves and provide for a truly impartial decision?

—Makarov, via his Itera corporation, is also a primary sponsor of the European Cycling Union, and a board member of the UCI itself. The UCI appealed the Kolobnev decision to CAS, which speaks well of its independence here, but as Makarov becomes more deeply entrenched in the power structure at the UCI, what can the organization do here and in other such cases to underline its impartiality?

The first priority is Galimzyanov himself. I’d like to know if he wrote the letter, and I’d like to know some more specifics of his EPO use to flesh out his assertion that it was a solo act. Such things are rarely solo acts; you can’t grow EPO on a windowsill like basil.

So in the end, there’s really just one question out of which all others stem: What really happened?

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Ricco twaalf jaar aan de kant
Laatste update: 19 april 2012 15:13 info
ROME - De Italiaanse dopingautoriteit heeft wielrenner Ricardo Ricco donderdag een schorsing van twaalf jaar opgelegd.

Foto: ANP
De 28-jarige coureur voerde vorig jaar zelf een bloedtransfusie uit.
Die ingreep kostte de Italiaan bijna zijn leven. Hij werd vervolgens ontslagen door zijn ploeg Vacansoleil.

Ricco testte tijdens de Ronde van Frankrijk in 2008 al eens positief op het bloeddopingmiddel cera.
Dat leverde hem een schorsing van twee jaar op, die later werd verminderd met vier maanden.

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Op zondag 22 april 2012 20:18 schreef Joost-mag-het-weten het volgende:
't kan aan mij liggen , maar de onverwachte dominantie van Omega Pharma-QST en Astana dit voorjaar doet toch mijn wenkbrauwen fronsen ...

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Op zondag 22 april 2012 20:18 schreef Joost-mag-het-weten het volgende:
't kan aan mij liggen , maar de onverwachte dominantie van Omega Pharma-QST en Astana dit voorjaar doet toch mijn wenkbrauwen fronsen ...

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Op zondag 22 april 2012 20:18 schreef Joost-mag-het-weten het volgende:
't kan aan mij liggen , maar de onverwachte dominantie van Omega Pharma-QST en Astana dit voorjaar doet toch mijn wenkbrauwen fronsen ...

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Op zondag 22 april 2012 20:20 schreef KnutdeIJsbeer het volgende:

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Ik vond Iglinksy ook al zo mooi passen tussen het lijstje winnaars van de afgelopen 10 jaar in Luik

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Op zondag 22 april 2012 21:01 schreef Tommeke het volgende:
Dikke pakhaas die Gilbert. Heb dit weekend met iemand gepraat die wel in het Belgische wielerwereldje zit. Hij had ook wel mooie verhalen over Devolder en Leukemans...

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Op zondag 22 april 2012 21:01 schreef Tommeke het volgende:
Dikke pakhaas die Gilbert. Heb dit weekend met iemand gepraat die wel in het Belgische wielerwereldje zit. Hij had ook wel mooie verhalen over Devolder en Leukemans...

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Op zondag 22 april 2012 20:18 schreef Joost-mag-het-weten het volgende:
't kan aan mij liggen , maar de onverwachte dominantie van Omega Pharma-QST en Astana dit voorjaar doet toch mijn wenkbrauwen fronsen ...