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Wow. Contador tests positive..
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The athletes are responsible for everything that goes into their bodies, although I don't see how you could check your beef for asthma medication.
Regardless, no matter what story Contador comes up with to explain the test result, their is always the question of whether he just had a great masking agent that that was 99.9% effective, and that one trace amount managed to slip through.
I think he will be suspended.
Regardless, no matter what story Contador comes up with to explain the test result, their is always the question of whether he just had a great masking agent that that was 99.9% effective, and that one trace amount managed to slip through.
I think he will be suspended.
The UCI is doing what it can to make this go away. They had a good run for a few years without any major stars testing positive, and Contador had become the new face of Grand Tour racing. He was the next Lance/Merckx/Indurain.
Screw it. Give Schleck a shot to be the next great rider... until he gets popped for doping of course.
Screw it. Give Schleck a shot to be the next great rider... until he gets popped for doping of course.
Yes, even Lance. Do I give a ****? No. I still like the tour and think Lance is an incredible athlete but he dopes too. He even tested positive years back and blamed it on some other **** and they accepted it. Now Lance goes around quoting the number of drug test he has taken and says that he has never tested positive which is absolute ********.
This is not surprising.
This is not surprising.
I could be wrong, but I don't think Lance has ever failed a drug test while he was competing. A few years ago, a lab tested a frozen Lance sample from 1999 and claimed it tested positive, but it was too old of a sample to be trustworthy.
I still think Lance doped, but I don't think he ever failed a test.
Of course, he took all kinds of banned substances during his cancer treatment, but he wasn't competing then.
I still think Lance doped, but I don't think he ever failed a test.
Of course, he took all kinds of banned substances during his cancer treatment, but he wasn't competing then.
Blood transfusion, which of course is very, very, very, very illegal. As in, they draw blood at some point during training, do some magic with it, and put it back in you during the tour. I don't know all the science and stuff, but apparently that blood is better than the blood inside you after riding up the Pyrenees.
Anyway, there could have been whatever it was in his stored blood for some reason, explaining why it might have shown up suddenly and in small amounts (anything above zero on this drug is illegal).
Anyway, there could have been whatever it was in his stored blood for some reason, explaining why it might have shown up suddenly and in small amounts (anything above zero on this drug is illegal).
The French food you were getting on the tour was sub-par? Riiiiiiiight. Wouldn't some fancy pants Spanish food snob demand only the finest, humanely raised, grass-fed, growth-hormone free Andalusian beef, and a nice bottle of Rioja anyway? Do hormones (or any resulting breakdown byproducts) still even show up in cooked beef?
And I don't mean like Lance Armstrong with an entire section of goods at Dick's. I mean like the average Joe who's finishing 20 or 30 back every race. What's he pulling down? Cause blood doping, HGH and even some steroid regimens are expensive propositions.
Team leaders and experienced riders who can win other races such as one day classics or one week stage races can easily earn 500k+ euros. The stars are earning up to 3-4million euros.
****** domestiques on wild card team entries are probably getting 40k euros. Minimum I think is around 30k, but they get prize money as well. Regular domestiques on established teams aren't getting 500k, but could definitely make 100-300 euros. Honestly, it's kinda like the MLS salary structure right now. There are players making less than a lot of us on this board, and there are players making a salary most of us can only dream about.
Most of the doping at the pro level would not be paid for out of the riders pocket anyway.
****** domestiques on wild card team entries are probably getting 40k euros. Minimum I think is around 30k, but they get prize money as well. Regular domestiques on established teams aren't getting 500k, but could definitely make 100-300 euros. Honestly, it's kinda like the MLS salary structure right now. There are players making less than a lot of us on this board, and there are players making a salary most of us can only dream about.
Most of the doping at the pro level would not be paid for out of the riders pocket anyway.