Eish!!!! Not Good!!!!

[Cruxpearl]

Lab director alleges blood doping at Tour

The director of the WADA-accredited Swiss Laboratory for Analysis of Doping in Lausanne, Switzerland, has told Belgian newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws that he believed there was still widespread doping in the Tour de France this year.
"47 out of 189 riders raced on blood transfusions or EPO,"
Martial Saugy alleged. "We have been able to show this from the samples taken at the health controls."

Still, Saugy added that these test results did not fulfil the requirements to be declared as 'positive'. "It is appalling, but we find so many test results that undoubtedly point to manipulation," he continued. "But there is a big difference between a suspicious sample and one that can be declared positive."

Saugy also found indications for the use of testosterone and growth hormone. "Especially the latter product is very popular at the moment," he added. "As soon as there will be a water-proof test for growth hormone, it will show that
80 percent [of the peloton] is taking it.

I am disillusioned: the use of growth hormone is as bad as was the use of EPO and blood doping in the 90's."

Cruxpearl2007-11-01 06:45:59

[no.one.knows]

And just after i thought they were all heading in the right direction.

[Ox_Wagon]

That is why I am not following/watching pro cycling anymore.  This year?s Tour de France was the last straw. Let them go on with their charade. I will cycle because I like it.<?:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

Ox_Wagon2007-11-01 06:44:35

[Man with no name]

Who posted a "Its been a long time since we spoke about doping" thread the other day?

[Racing Hart]

remember that's only that persons opinion...its not a fact that 47 of them actually did it

[Turboman]

At least my name and my doctor have not bene mentioned..... oops

[Reg Lizard]

Waar daar 'n rokie trek, is daar 'n vuurtjie.

 

Bad, bad, bad.

 

This brings me to another question:-

 

How could Lance have survived for so long, 7 years without anything charges being brought against him?

 

Only possible answer is that he must have been clean.

[Cruxpearl]

Dream on Reg!!!!! Cruxpearl2007-11-01 07:31:02

[Guest colonel]

No offence Crux but we should find this shocking why??

[mp321]

Read the book "From Lance to Landis", an eye opener about what has been happening in the Tour de France.