Doping #119 - De Britten voor de bijl.

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Op zondag 17 april 2016 19:13 schreef Wombcat het volgende:
Op 17:30 hebben ze het over motortjes in het achterwiel.

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The UCI responded Sunday to an investigation by a French television programme and an Italian newspaper that suggested mechanical doping is taking place in the professional peloton and the UCI checks are not reliable.

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In a statement sent Cyclingnews via email Sunday evening, the governing body said it is confident it currently uses a method of detection that is “extremely efficient.”

““The UCI has been testing for technological fraud for many years, and with the objective of increasing the efficiency of these tests, we have been trialling new methods of detection over the last year,” the UCI said.

“We have looked at thermal imaging, x-ray and ultrasonic testing but by far the most cost effective, reliable and accurate method has proved to be magnetic resonance testing using software we have created in partnership with a company of specialist developers. The scanning is done with a tablet and enables an operator to test the frame and wheels of a bike in less than a minute.”

The magnetic resonance testing was used to detect a hidden motor at the UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships in January at Heusden Zolder, where the UCI says it tested more than 100 bikes.

“We have tested bikes at many races this year (for example 216 at Tour of Flanders, 224 at Paris-Roubaix) and will continue to test heavily in all disciplines throughout the year. Co-operation from teams and riders as we have deployed these extensive tests has been excellent.”

In a report broadcast Sunday evening on France’s Stade 2 and published earlier in the day in the Corriere della Sera newspaper in Italy, Thierry Vildary and Marco Bonarrigo said they used an expensive heat detector to spot hidden motors at both the Strade Bianche race in Tuscany and the Coppi e Bartali stage race.

The two-page article in Corriere della Sera claimed that the heat detector – which was disguised to look a video camera, managed to spot seven different motors being used at Strade Bianche and Coppi e Bartali. Five were hidden in the seat tube, with two hidden in the rear hub and cassette. The newspaper report and Stade 2 video report did not name any riders involved.

Over the winter, the UCI introduced strict rules against what it describes as technological fraud and has carried out regular bike checks at the start of races using a blue tablet teslameter device that apparently detects magnetic fields.

However, the Corriere della Sera article describes the UCI tablet has “not very reliable’.

The UCI disagreed with that claim, however, saying “we are confident that we now have a method of detection that is extremely efficient and easy to deploy.”

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Op zondag 17 april 2016 21:38 schreef Sloggi het volgende:

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*kuch* Nadal *kuch*

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The Macau Marathon organizers are considering disqualifying Flomena Chepchirchir, the female runner who won the 2014 race while being banned by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF).
As the Times reported first-­hand on Friday April 8, Chepchirchir, a 35-year-old athlete from Kenya, won the 2014 Macau International Marathon while she was banned for doping. The long-distance Kenyan female runner was in the middle of a ban period decreed by IAAF after testing positive for a controlled substance at the Birell Prague Grand Prix Marathon, Czech Republic, on September 6, 2014. According to IAAF News Issue 159, the athlete was banned from competing for a 6-month period between September 6, 2014 and March 3, 2015.
Replying to questions posed by the Times, the Sports Bureau (ID) said that it “discovered in January 2015 via news that Flomena Chepchirchir might have participated in the 2014 Macau International Marathon while serving a ban given by IAAF.”
“Since the discovery of the issue, the Organizing Committee had immediately written to IAAF to seek confirmation and further information on the issue. But to date IAAF, has yet to provide an official reply and provide us confirmation of Ms Chepchirchir’s case,” ID stated.
The bureau also says that besides seeking conformation from IAAF, they have also tried to contact Chepchirchir’s agent who suggested that the runner was intending to appeal the IAAF’s ban.
The bureau’s statement adds that “pending the outcome of the case, retrospective action would be taken to disqualify” the Kenyan athlete and “adjust the results of the runners who finished in subsequent positions accordingly.”
According to the ID, Flomena Chepchirchir was asked to perform an anti-doping test after the conclusion of the Macau Marathon. She tested negative.
ID stated that the local marathon organizing committee “takes the issue of anti-doping in sports very seriously and we have always had a standard procedure and performed thorough checks to ensure the participating athletes are eligible to take part in our competition,” highlighting that Chepchirchir’s case was “isolated.” However, it is stressed that the case shows “there are still improvements to be made to our checking procedure, and in the future, we intend to seek more proactive communications and collaboration with international federations […] in order to prevent similar issues from happening in the future.”
sports bureau reply to the times

“The Organizing Committee discovered in January 2015 via news that Ms. Flomena Chepchirchir might have participated in the 2014 Macau International Marathon while serving a ban given by IAAF for the effective period from 6 September 2014 to 5 March 2015. Since the discovery of the issue, the Organizing Committee has immediately written to IAAF to seek confirmation and further information on the issue, but to date IAAF has yet to provide us an official reply and provide us confirmation of Ms. Chepchirchir’s case. We have also been in touch with the representing agent of Ms. Chepchirchir to seek clarification of the situation, and we were advised that they were intending to appeal to IAAF against the ban.
Pending on the outcome of the case, retrospective action would be taken to disqualify Ms. Chepchirchir’s result in the 2014 Macao International Marathon and adjust the results of the runners finished in subsequent positions accordingly if it is confirmed that Ms. Chepchirchir should have been banned from running in the 2014 Macau International Marathon.
Elite runners from all over the world have participated in the Macao International Marathon. For all invited athletes who participate in the Macau International Marathon, including Ms. Chepchirchir in 2014, the Organizing Committee perform a standard and thorough procedure to check if any of the athletes are serving bans imposed by IAAF before they are allowed to run in the race. At the time of the 2014 Macau International Marathon, there was no information from IAAF that Ms. Chepchirchir was ineligible to run in competitions hence her registration for the event was approved.
After the conclusion of the event, an anti-doping test was also performed on Ms. Chepchirchir and the result was negative. As Ms. Chepchirchir’s case only came to light in January 2015, the Organizing Committee could not have prevented her participation in the 2014 Macau International Marathon.
Taking this opportunity, we would like to emphasize the Organizing Committee takes the issue of anti-doping in sports very seriously and we have always had a standard procedure and performed thorough checks to ensure the participating athletes are eligible to take part in our competition. However, Ms. Chepchirchir’s isolated case highlighted that there are still improvements to be made to our checking procedure, and in the future we intend to seek more proactive communications and collaboration with international federations such as IAAF to ensure all participants in the major sporting events are eligible to take part so that we can prevent similar issues from happening in the future.”

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Op dinsdag 19 april 2016 12:53 schreef Sloggi het volgende:
Manager van Gilbert: “De scanners van de UCI zijn speelgoed”

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WATTS Froome Tour de France 2013 Ventoux

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Op dinsdag 19 april 2016 14:58 schreef Tommeke het volgende:
Nou daar ga je wel meteen aan denken.

Overigens vrij stijlloos van de manager van Gilbert nota bene om naar anderen te wijzen.

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Op dinsdag 19 april 2016 18:30 schreef Wombcat het volgende:

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Hoe weet Gilbert dat zo goed, vraag ik me dan af.

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Although 2010 is the year when the rumours about hidden motors first surfaced, Philippe Gilbert’s agent has said that he believes the machines may have been in use much longer than that.

“A very long time ago, Stefano Varjas [the Hungarian engineer believed to have been behind the most sophisticated motors] approached one of the riders that I am very close to,” said Vincent Wathelet to RTBF.be. “[He was] saying he had lost many races compared to competitors who used electric bikes.

“What we see in the report [the Stade 2 TV programme broadcast on Sunday – ed.], he had already shown him three years ago. I then contacted the engineer. I asked him for an explanation. I fitted out a bike with all these prohibited things in order to demonstrate to the UCI that it exists and that it is used.”

Wathelet said that the bike has been used in numerous youth races but also amongst the professionals. “We speak a lot of 2010, but I have evidence that it was in the peloton for much longer than that.”

Wathelet represents Gilbert as well as others such as Arnaud Démare and Boris Vallée He is also a TV producer of cycling races. He said that he has been trying to alert the UCI to the problem for a long time, both in relation to road racing and also to cyclocross.

The first ever confirmed case of a motorised bike being at a top level competition occurred in January when a spare machine in the pit area of the Belgian rider Femke Van den Driessche was found at the world cyclo cross championships. A verdict is expected soon in that case.

Wathelet said that he had made reports on the motorised doping issue to Umberto Langellotti, the president of the cycling federation in Monaco. He said that Langellotti was instrumental in getting the UCI to raise the sanctioning penalty in relation to the issue.

“At the time, a rider who was caught with a mechanical or electrical assistance risked a fine of 100 Swiss francs. It was so absurd. Fortunately, in 2014, the UCI regulations evolved.”

He gives a little more detail about what happened six years ago. “I hope that this case [the Stade 2 report] will make the cheaters think and that we will have the means to fight effectively. When you see that in 2010 some very famous riders carried their bikes in their hotel room and slept next to them, you ask a lot of questions because it is neither the purpose, nor the practice, in our profession.”
New detection methods needed

The UCI has said that it is tackling the issue as well as it could but Wathelet is not convinced. “I complained many times to the leadership [in previously years]. I said that controls were inadequate, that the UCI scanner was a toy, that it really does not allow them to effectively control.

“Remember these scanners that we saw happen in 2011 and 2012. They did not have the ability to check additional sources of heat and energy.”

The Stade 2 investigation used the kind of thermal imaging cameras that Greg LeMond has been calling for. Speaking to CyclingTips earlier this year, LeMond said that he believed the UCI’s method of measuring magnetic resistance was not enough to detect every type of hidden motor.

Wathelet urges the governing body to expand the systems used. “Thermal imaging cameras are the only way to demonstrate that indeed a bike delivers a source of abnormal energy, which is not a friction that comes from use of batteries.

“The current control system, finally arrived in cyclocross at the initiative of a Belgian officer [Walloon cycling federation president Thierry Marshal – ed.] allowed the catching of Femke Van den Driessche at the world cyclocross championship in Zolder. But I must say she used the first generation of engines.”

He said that such a system costs 7,500 euro and that 1350 were sold in 2015. However he believes that far more sophisticated motors are now available. [According to Stade 2, one such system uses electromagnets hidden in wheels – ed.]

“Basically, they are used in aerospace to open the shutters of a satellite when it is launched into orbit, so you can imagine how these engines are durable and powerful,” he said. “It also means that these type of materials that cost a lot of money are not easily recognizable in a scanner.”

Watching out for suspicious finger movement, as was red-flagged in the past as one possible sign of turning on a motor, is something he says is no longer relevant.

“This material can be triggered by your heart beats when you exceed a certain heart rate. In general, the limit is 160 beats which allows you to recover while your engine compensates. But like everything which is miniaturized, it is very difficult to detect.”

Asked how to pinpoint those who are cheating, he said that both performances and physical parameters must be considered. “When you find an incredible pedalling pace in a slope at high altitude with low heartbeat, in my opinion, it is clear that there is cheating.

“It is a rule of three [factors]…the heart beat, the rhythm of pedalling and the slope. But as I said, it’s not sufficient [to form conclusions in this way – ed.] it is also necessary, in this case, that all legal mechanisms are put in place that the bike is seized, that the spare bikes are seized, and that mechanics don’t have the chance to approach the bikes.

“It is also necessary that in the future we forbid changing bikes except for serious mechanical reasons.”

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Op woensdag 20 april 2016 10:18 schreef Pino112 het volgende:
Henao out.
http://teams.ky/HenaoStatement

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Op woensdag 20 april 2016 11:48 schreef heywoodu het volgende:
Gewoon logisch dat het een lastige zaak is en dat er meer onderzoek naar gedaan wordt. Had al lang geleden gedaan moeten worden.

Dit is echt niet van het niveau "ja maar de EPO was voor de zus van mijn cavia".

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Roller skater Mauricio Garcia Sierra has been banned for four years and stripped of his world title after a positive drugs test.

The Dominican Republic athlete failed for erythropoietin, which increases red blood cells, after the World Championships in Kaohsiung in Taiwan in November.

He had claimed victory in the 1,000 metres inline speed skating event but has now forfeited his medal following a decision by the International Federation of Roller Sports (FIRS).

His four-year ban is dated from March 26, 2016 to March 24, 2020 and takes into account time served when he was provisionally suspended between December 31, 2015 and March 25, 2016.

"During the period of ineligibility Mauricio Garcia Sierra is not permitted to participate in any sports related activity with any organisation that is a signatory to the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Code including but not limited to competing, train with a team, coaching, committee work but excepting anti doping education and counselling," said Patricia Wallace from FIRS Doping Control.

Andreas Jimenez of Colombia is the new 1,000m world champion, with his compatriot Andrea Agudelo promoted into second position.

Third place now goes to Alexis Contin of France.

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MOSCOW - The Russian Anti-Doping Agency says six track and field athletes have been banned for various doping offenses.

The agency did not say why they were banned.

Middle-distance runner Olesya Syreva, who previously served a two-year suspension in 2013 and lost a silver medal from the 2011 European indoor championships, was given an eight-year ban. The ban is likely to end the 32-year-old Syreva’s career.

Also banned is triple jumper Valeria Fyodorova, who competed at the world junior championships in 2014, and four national-level athletes, Yulia Zaripova, Elvira Abdrakhmanova, Vadim Vrublevsky and Yuri Bishaev.

Zaripova is a discus thrower, but has the same name as the Olympic champion runner.

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NOSwielrennen twitterde op vrijdag 22-04-2016 om 10:46:01 Contador: ik ben in bloedvorm en kan de Tour winnen https://t.co/Uqy5DPdmVp reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 22 april 2016 20:41 schreef Mani89 het volgende:
Di Luca reveals doping in no-punches-pulled autobiography

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friebos twitterde op vrijdag 22-04-2016 om 09:08:12 Collector's item: Di Luca reacts to news an EPO test is coming during 2000 Giro. 'I don't believe it.'https://t.co/RdK21I6XtU (27.20 mins) reageer retweet

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friebos twitterde op vrijdag 22-04-2016 om 09:12:19 Curious little vox pops, that (previous twt). Pantani: 'Let's hope so.'Rebellin: 'If they're serious tests...'Di Luca: 'I'm sceptical.' reageer retweet

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Op zaterdag 23 april 2016 14:52 schreef Rellende_Rotscholier het volgende:
Doping gebruiken bij een technische sport. !

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Op zaterdag 23 april 2016 22:41 schreef wimderon het volgende:
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Op zondag 24 april 2016 11:12 schreef Joost-mag-het-weten het volgende:

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Waar is dit ergens ?

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Op vrijdag 22 april 2016 20:41 schreef Mani89 het volgende:
Di Luca reveals doping in no-punches-pulled autobiography

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LVCKV twitterde op zondag 24-04-2016 om 17:10:48 Today's Gazzetta - Di Luca says he started doping in 1997, his final amateur year, not 2001. Says he started the "serious' stuff in 2001 reageer retweet

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Prescription Steroids Get a Quiet Exemption
U.S. Anti-Doping Agency creates new permission for amateur athletes with medical conditions
By FREDERICK DREIER
Updated April 22, 2016

Last September, the U.S. Anti Doping Agency gave Jeff Hammond a green light he never expected: USADA said that Hammond, a masters cyclist, could compete in races while using medically prescribed testosterone.

“I started crying,” said Hammond, whose doctor prescribed testosterone in 2012 for a bone-weakening condition.

USADA isn’t broadcasting the news. But it has created a new exemption for masters and amateur athletes who are prescribed banned drugs. Called a Recreational Competitor Therapeutic Use Exemption, it allows masters and amateur athletes to compete in low-level competitions while taking banned substances. An athlete must prove to USADA that he or she is unlikely to actually win one of these amateur races, in addition to proving a medical need for an illicit chemical.

“Out of fairness to those non-competitive athletes, we put in place a process that allows for them to compete while still requiring a fair and reasonable review of each recreational athlete’s medical situation,” USADA said in a statement to the Wall Street Journal.

Testosterone, an anabolic steroid, is perhaps the most popular doping chemical in sports history, due to its ability to boost muscle mass and improves recovery. Since 2002, USADA has banned 32 athletes for testosterone, including cyclist Lance Armstrong. Major-league baseball players Melky Cabrera and Bartolo Colon also received sanctions for testosterone use.

As a therapeutic remedy, supplemental testosterone provides health benefits to men with missing or damaged testicles, or with naturally low levels of the hormone. Chronically low testosterone—called hypogonadism—can cause osteoporosis, among other problems. According to a 2013 report published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine, testosterone therapy in men over 40 increased threefold from 2001-2011. In men with naturally low levels, supplemental testosterone theoretically would provide no advantage over other competitors.

Testosterone’s illicit use in the 1980’s and 1990’s persuaded the International Olympic Committee to adopt a zero-tolerance policy, said Don Catlin, a former IOC executive and scientist who helped pioneer dope testing.

“If somebody asked for a testosterone [TUE], we simply wrote a letter saying no,” said Catlin. “Anytime you give a TUE for a drug that truly enhances performance, the news spreads like wildfire. More athletes will want to use it.”

Over time, that position softened. A USADA spokesman said the organization has granted TUE documents to elite athletes who met very strict medical criteria.

Exemptions weren’t an issue for recreational athletes until recent years, when USADA began testing some lower-level athletes at some triathlons, foot races and cycling events.

In 2010 52-year-old runner Val Barnwell tested positive for testosterone after winning the 2009 Masters track world championships. In 2015, the winner of the amateurs-only Gran Fondo New York, Oscar Tovar, had his title stripped after recording a positive test for testosterone. Real estate salesman Greg Pizza, 62, tested positive after competing at the 2015 USA Track and Field National Masters Championships.

In 2013, USADA issued a two-year ban to masters track runner Roger Wenzel, who said he was prescribed testosterone to treat Parkinson’s disease. Wenzel died of liver cancer in 2015 at the age of 66. Wenzel’s widow, Jane Wenzel, said her husband considered challenging USADA in court, but instead spoke to a local newspaper columnist about his ordeal.

“We didn’t have the resources to take [USADA] on,” Wenzel said.

After Hammond received a testosterone prescription at age 58 in 2012, he applied with USADA for a TUE. athlete to use a banned substance for medical reasons. When USADA denied his application, Hammond hung up his bike.

“I knew the chances were extremely small that I’d ever be tested,” said Hammond, who teaches communication at Colorado’s Metro State University. “I didn’t want to go to races always worrying that I’d be tested.”

This past September Hammond again applied for a TUE, expecting to receive another rejection.

To his surprise, USADA mailed him a Recreational Competitor Therapeutic Use Exemption. Thrilled, he said, “It had broken my heart to stop racing.”

USADA received a legal challenge to its TUE procedures for testosterone in 2014 from Texas urologist Sloan Teeple. Teeple, 45, was banned for 18 months after testing positive at a local mountain bike race in 2013, where he finished in the middle of the pack.

Teeple, who was diagnosed with hypogonadism in 2005, said he applied with USADA for a TUE in 2011 and 2012, but was denied both times. When USADA denied Teeple’s third TUE application, he requested an arbitration hearing. Teeple hired sports lawyer Howard Jacobs, who has represented multiple high-profile athletes accused of doping.

“I felt that I wasn’t doing anything morally or ethically wrong,” Teeple said. “I wanted a panel of arbitrators to hear my story and decide what is right.”

USADA declined to comment on Teeple’s case. Teeple said he and Jacobs scheduled a meeting with USADA’s lawyers and three arbitrators in Austin, Texas, in July 2014. On the eve of the meeting, Teeple said, USADA asked Teeple to suspend his testosterone treatment for six weeks, and then submit blood levels along with results from an MRI of his brain.

After following the instructions, Teeple received an email in June 2015 containing a Recreational Competitor TUE.

USADA declined to say how many Recreational Competitor TUE applications it has granted.

Teeple, who blogged about his experience, said he and Hammond are the only two athletes he knows of with the documents.

Jacobs, who previously represented disgraced sprinter Marion Jones and Landis in their respective doping cases, said he had never heard of the Recreational Competitor TUE before receiving the Teeple’s document from USADA.

“[USADA] told me it was something new that they had just created,” Jacobs said. “I see it as a compromise.”

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Op maandag 25 april 2016 15:49 schreef OProg het volgende:
Kjeld Nuis is mad nu.