gobbledonk Posted October 16, 2012 Report Share Posted October 16, 2012 Cadel Evans and others have done it in an era of improved drug testing. Evans seems a tad boring in interviews, at least to my ears, but I have to wonder where he would have finished in some of the earlier races if the testing had been more stringent. 2006 Evans won the Tour de Romandie, beating the Spaniards Alberto Contador Velasco and Alejandro Valverde on the very last stage, a 20 km time trial around Lausanne. He finished fifth in the Tour de France but was promoted to fourth after the disqualification of apparent winner Floyd Landis due to a failed drug test. Of course, hindsight is 20/20, but the 2012 race showed how hard it is for a 'mere mortal' to go 2-in-a-row. Armstrong clearly had God on his side ..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limbo Posted October 16, 2012 Report Share Posted October 16, 2012 any link to "still doped up" please ? sure there is dope, but the organisers of races are also at fault, no way riders can endure 21 days of hard race in the Giro, TdF or Vuelta only on orange juice...... any proof or links appreciated...... BB BB, We both know there are no links but you gave the answer yourself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kamui Posted October 17, 2012 Report Share Posted October 17, 2012 Given the scandals around doping, they should just let them put whatever the hell they want into their bodies - sooner or later someone will die on the track and it might be a wake-up call. Dozens, probably hundreds or even thousands of athletes ruined their bodies with doping. But this didn't happen from one day to another. Usually they just fade away and are crippled for life. The media isn't interested in these stories at all. After the unification we had a whole generation of German athletes who had been forced by the communist regime to take drugs. Most spectacular was the case of a female athlete who turned male because of the amount of hormones she had been forced to take. It's most likely that we see that the same forced doping is happening in much larger scale in China now. But in a way Armstrong as a team leader forced his team mates into doping in a similar fashion: either you became part of the system or you were out. PORTS DOPING TURNED HEIDI INTO A MAN SUCCESS came at a terrible price for the athlete whose butch frame earned her the nickname Hormone Heidi among her West German rivals. THE CROWD roared with admiration as Heidi Krieger climbed on to the winner's podium. At just 21, the champion shot-putter had become a national hero in East Germany after winning European Championship gold with an astonishing put of over 21 metres in 1986. But success came at a terrible price for the athlete whose butch frame earned her the nickname Hormone Heidi among her West German rivals. Today Krieger is a gruff-voiced 40-year-old man called Andreas. He claims the drugs he was forced to take by his coaches when he was a young girl changed his gender. "Literally, all those pills killed Heidi," he says. He had a full sex-swap operation in 1997, completing the physical change. Krieger is one of 137 people claiming that as children they were given massive doses of steroids in the former East Germany. http://www.mirror.co...ed-heidi-564247 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Munchmaster Posted October 22, 2012 Report Share Posted October 22, 2012 Lance Armstrong has been stripped of his seven Tour de France titles by cycling's governing body. The International Cycling Union (UCI) has accepted the findings of the United States Anti-Doping Agency's (Usada) investigation into Armstrong. UCI president Pat McQuaid said: "Lance Armstrong has no place in cycling. He deserves to be forgotten." McQuaid added Armstrong had been stripped of all results since 1 August, 1998 and banned for life for doping. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted October 22, 2012 Report Share Posted October 22, 2012 So are they going to strip the results of all those who have admitted they also doped? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sayjann Posted October 22, 2012 Report Share Posted October 22, 2012 So are they going to strip the results of all those who have admitted they also doped? that hs already happened in the past. winners of the jerseys have been stripped whenever the drug findings have been proved. they then promote the next riders up a place but sometimes they get cought out as well. i remember one example of a rider who finished around 6th was declared the winner after all those who finished above him were fould guilty of drug aduse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavanami Posted October 23, 2012 Report Share Posted October 23, 2012 They need to make a separate division...anything goes! coke, meth, steroids, bring it on! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redbaron Posted October 23, 2012 Report Share Posted October 23, 2012 So are they going to strip the results of all those who have admitted they also doped? One would hope so, or maybe they got "immunity". #survivor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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