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Why would he need to do that? I put it to you
i started off reading this thread thinking what the vaaark evaaaaa, but seriously now??? now we want to start digging into everything this oke has ever done,,,,,,,come on SERIAAAAS
SO WHAT HE ENJOYS A FEW BEERS more AA members here than at meetings
SO WHAT HE GETS UP TO *** who doesnt
HE GETS LOCKED OUT HIS HOUSE so what
ITS CALLED LIFE,,,,,the few hubbers i know and the stories i know
Point being he is a owner of a Professional team that should act as such and is claiming witchhunt, faulty ethics etc etc when in fact he is far from what he is claiming as being all above board.
When in fact us as "fans" of the sport and were of the team would like to know WTF that **** was all about. My son for 1 who was 2 tables away lost a hero in SA mtbing that race and that is a problem as I am sure he wasnt the only one.
Brandonmtb care to comment about the shenanigans that went on at Sani with your team that left many people at the event very disgusted by the behaviour asking what that was all about and the never mind the little cocktails.
Balls Brandon,
That is what it took to post here.
I guess those balls weren't very big due to low testosterone levels??
I can only think that if you start losing something that makes you function properly that it will surely lead to desperate actions..
The only thing he lost the ability to do was use Testosterone to get an advantage at races.
You have to give the guy kudos for responding here though.
Desperate times call for desperate measures. He clearly thinks that the more he posts his "story" more people will read and believe him. Same quick thinking and PR by him "suspending himself" and blaming SAIDS again for this mess up.
Hi Guys
Probably opening myself up to alot of abuse here, The worst thing to do is talk on this form but felt i owed the public something
. But long story short, I did take a banned substance, at the same time tried to work with SAIDS to get a TUE. The process took 6 months from start of application to final decision. Quite long to wait when rider contracts are only a year long.
Just to clear up you can apply for Testosterone TUE and race whilst using it. WADA explains the lot. But WADA, USADA and SAIDS are all kind of their own governing bodies and each have different criteria for certain rules and compliance's ect.
I got telephonic approval to go ahead with the treatment because I was told it was a long process and SAIDS could not refuse an athlete medical treatment if prescribed by a doctor. So I went ahead with the treatment it a testosterone Undeconate where you are positive for 6 months( we are tested every 2 weeks) all doping control tests were coming back negative and I was declaring the use of the substance at all times. It was a treatment plan for 6 months not to just carry on using it for the rest of my career.
When I made mention that I had taken the substance long before my positive test, no one said you are doing the wrong thing or you must stop racing. It actually came out in the hearing that when I sent that mail, THE CEO of SAIDS told the TUE administrator to ignore me...... Very strange... I Stopped the use of the substance on the 7th April and tested positive in July.
I had never had to deal with SAIDS with something like this before but believe it or not never really had any reason. So when I did have a reason it was new to me. I have been racing for years and should have known better or done more homework but I simply trusted SAIDS... (negligence on my part)
Through all of this people will say bla bla heard it all before and I dont think for one second that I should have got away scott free... I did deserve a sanction. But you get caught doping with EPO and get two years, Some guys get caught in a racing doping with testosterone and get 18 months.
Not for one second during the process did a think I could get away with using testosterone hence trying to do what I thought was right... If I was caught cheating I would have taken it on the chin and said sorry... But have spent the last 10 months of my life in hell trying to fight this thing.... I promise I wouldn't wish this situation which I to a certain extent put myself in, but none the less its been terrible.
I have a family, 2 kids and owned a team so I though i was doing the right thing.... Its been a huge muddle and hurt a lot of people. We have lost our whole team and sponsors, the sponsors supported me in the beginning because I had told them about my treatment before I did it and my whole family including extended family. Unfortunately cycling has that "image" and is in the spot light...Then Daryl's positive came out and then the sponsors said sorry cycling not for us to much admin. Bad image and maladministration. FedGroup even offered SAIDS funding to help speed up there TUE process and they didnt even respond??? TUE process is not simple its blood tests doctors reports GP and Endocrinologists.
My testo levels in Sep 2012 were 9 and then in Feb 2013 they were 10..... with Normal being between 12-18 and now after all the rigmarole I have been through you have to be below 8 to warrant treatment.. But can also receive treatment if symptomatic ( how we determine that is really hard) I was treated more for symptomatic as those where the symptoms I was displaying) on the 7th May 2013 I sent through more blood tests to show that my Testo levels were up to normal levels at 15.5. So was still within the range.....
So with all this said I would have to start from scratch again with a team and sponsors and even if I got a 12 month suspension would have thought it was fair,..... But to be labelled a cheat is hard and it was certainly not my intention. For those who talk about their kids... I also deal with my kids friends at school saying oh your dad got banned for drugs.... its tough but my doing so have to try and sit down and explain to my kids what happened. So those guys who say you have kids that look up to us riders or whatever I understand the disappointment....
I am saddened by this whole ordeal and will appeal at another hearing and if not favorable towards in in the terms of getting a reduction in sentence then I will take the case to CAS in Switzerland.
Sorry to those who feel I am a cheat and have disappointed I am sorry. To those who kind of understand and support me I thank you.
I am also not going to sit for days trying to defend myself against every persons judgement against me here on the form... And not looking for a sympathy card either... Just trying to say something from my point of view..
Cheers for now
Brandon
Wow, it must be tough being the victim and totally innocent. I would have a lot of respect for you if you came out and were honest cause you know what you have typed is not the truth. Although, some of it is, but majority not.
Respect is earned, not given.
It is much more news-worthy to have a cyclist who is doing well internationally, even for the local hardware store. Imagine getting onto a podium in France with world-wide TV coverage, a rider thanking his moms and pops hardware store sponsor followed up by a good write-up in national and local papers and a nice mention for Oom Jan en Tannie San se Hardeware.
Sure beats a 2 minute slot on a local Cycling magazine show once in a blue moon.
Not sure the guys in France where the athlete raced is going to all of a suden order nails from my hardware....
When all is said and done and dislike and like for BS is taken away from either party and wether he was intentionally cheating to gain an upper hand or wether he needed it medically and all was above board with prescription the bottom line is that he is a Professional athlete who has been doing this for years and years and will know of years of cases where athletes have been banned for this exact case wether intentional or not.
For him to go ahead with no written consent on the basis it was "all ok" according to him was so nieve and so blatantly silly shows to me how cocksure he would be with getting away with it and in essence took a banned product illegally to gain a advantage in his racing and training and now is upset cause he has been caught and calling it a witch hunt.
Its his responsibility to as said before to follow the rules like many, many athletes do just like it is for a trader on the stock exchange not to do insider trading. When that doesnt happen then you have to accept the consequences.
When an independent endocrinologist performed tests it shows that he DID NOT require testosterone boosters so how does that work?
Pssst you seem to know a lot about the pro scene. . Come shed some light on how sponsorship in SA works regarding the lack of SA marathon riders riding in europe.
Well if you look at it logically if your company was SA based and your business was in SA would you not think it was logic to have a team promote your company locally as often as they could and as best as they could at all times instead of racing or basing themselves overseas where you will not generate any potential business.
Don't want to sound facetious but I'm sure the coaches will have said 'more and bigger things to come' 'big improvement' .......
Not sure if you saying Rourke's improvements come from a banned product(s) but if you are I think that is a little off sides in respect to who he is as a person and the few changes he has made in his overall training and racing program as of late. I read his blogs and the Teams blogs and they have made some significant changes to him from a management and new coaching perspective which he and the team have said are the best thing that could of happened to him and now they seeing his true potential.
If you want to lose some weight to get into race-condition, just hop onto some of their twitter threads. The utter guff that they spew out, and spew they do - every 15m or so, about how like awesome they rode this morning, and the awesome pair of socks they got for free from Mr Price, and their awesome new strava time, so awesome! BLECH - your newfound bulimia will drop your weight in no time
While I am not defending any Pro but alot of their contracts have a clause in which they have to such tweets, FB etc promoting sponsors so its not all their fault.
If his testosterone levels were that low a TUE would've been issued, no?. Surely they submitted all the lab results to anti doping.
And testosterone is mos a big No No.. and I am sure there is detailed info on when and it is allowed.. he surely had that info and his lab results to go by.
If his levels were that low Testosterone would be prescribed but no chance of him racing as I said earlier. SAIDS would of looked at all the data and "tests" performed or asked for the lab results from his low testosterone levels and if those were legit it would be fine but clearly they werent and it was some dubious make up story.
I would like Queen B or Brandon to post a pic of the test results showing what his testosterone ratio was when he was prescribed the product and what they were when he was caught. I am almost pretty sure his scores were way off the chart. Never mind 1:1 or extreme cases of 4:1 but Im guessing in the range of 6 and up.
He was caught cheating, its that simple no matter what way you look at it unfortunately and because the team has now fallen apart the only person that is responsible for that is BS. No one else. No one else has been caught or broke the rules and yes, there may be 1 less team now but rather have 1 less team than a dishonest team cause that, in essence, isnt a team you want around or my child wanting to ride for. That dark cloud around Fedgroup team has been there for a long, long time, everyone knows that who knows anything and its sad cause their actions as of late have been far from professional.
I just wish Fedgroup would re-look at sponsoring a team again but start over with new management, riders etc etc. There is plenty of young riders who deserve that money in support and a good structure that will outshine anyone on that team with the right support.
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It seems there are many dim witted ignorant people that as usual make `hubbers look nothing more than bored wannabe's that are never gonna be !
Do yourselves a favour and speak to people in the know before banging out crap as most of you keyboard ninjas tend to do.
Maybe get your facts straight and realise that if a athlete or anyone for that matter has to take testosterone for low levels there is NO WAY they able to compete never mind WIN races. Medical fact.
Do yourself a favour and speak to the people in the know before banging out crap in defence like a keyboard MMA fighter.
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Thx for that. . But I very much doubt they bother coming to the platteland
You think where BS lives is easily accessible for SAIDS to do testing or when he disappears for a few weeks on end to remote locations to go train before big competitions and comes back from the like a steam train?
Pretty similar to not being able to go to the Platteland.
I wonder when anti dopjng is gonna start testing the high school rugby kids huh?
They do, often.
http://www.sport24.co.za/Rugby/Dope-scandal-rocks-Craven-Week-20110803
http://www.metronewspaper.co.za/2012/09/05/craven-week-schoolboy-tests-positive-for-doping/
This lot has cried foul and tried to downtalk any mention of doping by claiming 'it's bad for the sport'. Bulldust. What's bad for the sport is doping, and a certain load of BS pros been at it for years. It's an open secret among people who race. Or used to race.
Well said.
Start to finish: I doped to get an advantage, I got caught and tried to get a back dated and fake TUE, it failed, I got banned, I appealed they said it still doesn't work so I am still banned. In the meantime Kia wants their cars back but I am busy trying to panel beat the 1.
Good riddance.
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Why are you quoting your OP all the time?? Just make a post and get on with it.
Maybe the fridge was broken?
10 September
Frantiesek Rabon I presume?
If he is talking about Rabon, he must be F-ing joking. Rabon is world class.
Brandon Stewart
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Stop playing the victim and own up to the fact you put an illegal & banned product in your body in order to benefit your racing and results and have now been caught for it. The only example that has been made is that if you do something illegally and get caught you get banned.