The Cavendish Missed Drug Test Thing
by Chris Fontecchio on Jan 6, 2012 6:23 PM EST
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Print... sounds like a non-story. Reigning world champion Mark Cavendish missed an out-of-competition control last April because he was filming something on Mt. Etna with the BBC, instead of wherever he had told the test/tracking system where he would be. He calls it an "administrative error" and since it's his first, he has two more strikes before there could be repercussions. There is no other evidence of Cavendish being involved in anything resembling cheating.
Anytime a sentence includes "world champion" and "doping" there will be news, and to make matters worse the story coincides with two other riders' control-availability situations which point to real trouble. But for Cav, this is one of those rare occasions where, from all appearances, there really is no news.
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It's news in as far that
if he misses two more we now know when the first one was. But that’s all. 5 lines in a sidecolumn, no more than that.
certo
although I am guessing there’s a statute of limitations here someplace? Like, if he makes all his appointments for another year or so, they wipe the slate clean?
De cross gaat out that door.
by Chris Fontecchio on Jan 6, 2012 6:40 PM EST up reply actions
3 missed within an 18-month period.
"Wizard's first rule. People are stupid. They will believe anything they want to be true or fear to be true." -- Terry Goodkind
probably, yes
But perusing the uci rule book is going a bit far, even for me.
by tgsgirl on Jan 6, 2012 6:57 PM EST via iPhone app up reply actions
I meant perusing from my iPod
Officially simply perusing is not going too far for me.
by tgsgirl on Jan 6, 2012 7:05 PM EST via iPhone app up reply actions
*obviuosly
Jesus, I’m not made for all this mobile malarkey.
by tgsgirl on Jan 6, 2012 7:22 PM EST via iPhone app up reply actions
Why is the UCI announcing all this crap now?
It’s like they just picked up the package off their desk from this summer and realized a bunch of riders missed tests.
"Oh man, it’s going to take days to kill all these people!"
as much fun as it is to blame the uci
Cav came out with this one himself apparently.
by tgsgirl on Jan 6, 2012 7:24 PM EST via iPhone app up reply actions
Dont think so
La Gazzetta Dello Sport ‘started’ it, and eventually Cav was forced to confirm it. One of his tweets gives a clue: “RT @roadcyclinguk Blog- ‘missed doping test’ a non-starter: The crime here is that a single missed test has been leaked”
I was referring to Offredo as much as I was to Cavendish
"Oh man, it’s going to take days to kill all these people!"
On the other hand, it looks like Offredo has used his 3 strikes :(
For the last one, he was actually racing in Belgium when the doping controller knocked on his door at home because his team had sent him there at the last minute… We’ll see what happens but not a good week for French cycling after the Baugé affair…
Whew
I thought from your open you were going to go from why it SOUNDS like a non-story to a big rant about why it’s the most horrible thing in the history of ever.
Glad to be wrong about that :)
Heh
I promise not to bury the lead…
De cross gaat out that door.
by Chris Fontecchio on Jan 6, 2012 10:27 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
at least they didn't run him over
like they did Sharon Laws, in a BBC pre-2008-Olympics vid….
Aka Pigeons!
by Sarah Connolly on Jan 8, 2012 10:14 AM EST up reply actions
All this leaking etc.
Would it be a problem to have this whereabout system (violations) running publicly?
maybe. In reality during hard contract negotiations the rider will likely have
have to disclose this information to the interested team anyway.
So will Cav’s public profile change from this latest whereabout violation? I am not sure.
In Cav's book
he talks about how, in his early days, he fucked up whereabouts twice within a short period of time, and was therefore one more screw up away from a suspension. So not unprecedented for him, although you’d think he’d have learned his lesson.
Luxembourg is very close to Belgium--Frank Schleck
Yeah, maybe
But sometimes you just have to say ‘fuck it’ and stick it to the man
by sebastiandeluded on Jan 7, 2012 5:22 PM EST up reply actions
That
must be very, very tempting. The whole whereabouts system sounds like a fricking nightmare.
De cross gaat out that door.
by Chris Fontecchio on Jan 8, 2012 8:09 AM EST up reply actions
The UCI should just have an iPhone app that tracks the athletes
Keep your phone charged and in the same city you are in = problem solved
"Oh man, it’s going to take days to kill all these people!"
Current location is not the issue
They must know ahead of time to send the vampires.
"Beer helps." -- Ant1.
From what I understand of the British Olympic system
they can change their location right up to one minute before the designated hour begins. Even just by sending a text message.
Ah!
Even if the 2nd location is far away from the 1st? (as opposed to small). Enter into ADAMS that you’ll be in Manchester, then text to say, nope, it’s Barbados after all.
"Beer helps." -- Ant1.
with one small exception
“An update of the 60-minute time slot may be made at any time up until the beginning
of the time slot. In appropriate circumstances, however, last-minute updates by an
Athlete may be pursued as a possible anti-doping rule violation of evading Sample
collection…and/or Tampering (or Attempting to Tamper) with Doping Control”
(Or do it regularly, or because you saw the testers coming down the driveway etc and it could be viewed as a worse action than a missed test)
It is a non-story
Numerous riders have one or two missed tests within an 18 month span. Spartacus missed two just a couple years ago. It’s only news if they miss 3.
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