Doping at the Tour

by callmecayce on Jul 26, 2006 3:29 PM EDT Comment 7 comments

From the BBC:

A rider in this year's Tour de France has failed a doping test, according to the International Cycling Union (UCI).
Neither the rider's identity nor the date when the test was conducted were released by the sport's governing body.
The positive test, carried out by France's national anti-doping laboratory at Chatenay-Malabry, will be the first from the race if confirmed.

I think this is the best route. I never liked the releasing of rider's names, not even in the OP business.

Update [2006-7-26 19:29:50 by Sarah]: As an slightly unrelated update: Astana 5' cleared by Spanish courts.

Five Astan? riders who were forced out of the 2006 Tour de France because of alleged links to a blood doping investigation have been formally cleared by Spanish courts. Joseba Beloki, Isidro Nozal, Sergio Paulinho, Allan Davis and Alberto Contador have all received a written document officially clearing them of any links to the ongoing "Operaci?n Puerto," the Spanish newspaper El Diario Vasco reported Wednesday.

I'm both pissed off and happy. Happy because Contador and Davis were cleared. But pissed off because Vino could have race.

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Ok Rumor mill

has it that Floyd happened to skip out on a race the same day in the Netherlands, Coincidental or not?? Hip problems were the reason given. Try out your dutch and see if you can glean anything else from this.

by Clydesdale on Jul 26, 2006 9:19 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I can't take it

by ssmith on Jul 26, 2006 10:43 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

this is what translation software comes up with...

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by ELVISGOAT on Jul 26, 2006 11:03 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Looks like

Americans, Aussies, Russ, Danes and Germans are still not clear...

by ELVISGOAT on Jul 26, 2006 11:04 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Rider tested positive after stage 17

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,28910-2287959,00.html

THE Tour de France was bracing itself for further shocks last night after it emerged that a high-profile rider was alleged to have a failed a doping test during the final week of this year's race.

According to sources in France, the rider concerned is said to have tested positive for testosterone after last Thursday's stage through the Alps to Morzine, which was won, after a 130-kilometre solo breakaway, by Floyd Landis, of the United States. Landis went on to secure overall victory in the 2006 Tour, which finished in Paris on Sunday.

Pat McQuaid, the president of the International Cycling Union (UCI) would make no comment on the rider's identity last night. "I will say that I am extremely angry and feel very let down by this," McQuaid said. "The credibility of the sport is at stake. The rider, his federation and his team have been informed of the situation."

The UCI said that it would not disclose the name of the rider or other information that could reveal his identity, pending completion of the testing process.

The UCI received a report yesterday from the anti-doping laboratory at Châtenay-Malabry in Paris stating an adverse analytical finding.

"The adverse analytical finding received on Wednesday morning relates to the first analysis and will have to be confirmed either by a counter-analysis required by the rider, or by the fact that the rider renounces to that counter analysis," the UCI statement said.

Landis was scheduled to have raced in a criterium event in the Netherlands yesterday but failed to participate, citing pain in his troublesome hip. Both he and John Lelangue, his Phonak team manager, were not available for comment last night. The Pennsylvanian, 30, is expected to have a hip replacement operation within the next two months. Halfway through the Tour, Landis gave a press conference in which he revealed that he had been suffering from intense pain from a damaged hip joint.

by socal on Jul 26, 2006 11:38 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

AP report: It's not an American rider

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060726/ap_on_sp_ot/cyc_tour_de_france_doping_6

The rider's name, team and nationality will not be released until the testing process is completed, including the analysis of a backup sample, the International Cycling Union said Wednesday.

The sport's governing body did say, however, that the rider's team and national federation were notified, as well as national and world anti-doping authorities. USA Cycling has not been contacted by UCI, spokesman Andy Lee said. U.S. Anti-Doping Agency spokeswoman Carla O'Connell said that group had no comment.

by socal on Jul 26, 2006 11:57 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs