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Astana have lost another one!
Artur Fedosseyev has tested positive for androgenic anabolic steroids! They only need to read Tyler's book to read about how to dope and get away with it? But they are taking steroids that can be detected up to 18 months later?
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You have echoed my thoughts on this with your comments; I could understand a rider getting caught in an 'out of competition' test. Or missing a number of tests because you know you are 'glowing' (within the time that you are likely to test positive after doping). But these are 'in competition' tests? A reasonable person would know that if they did well, or were randomly selected they would be tested? I hope that this is, "desperate kids do desperate things with predictable results" as you say Jimmy and not evidence of organised 'Armstrong' style doping. Can't we move on?
I did note Vino has only 'suspended' the continental team too. This could run and run methinks!
Given the usual uproar about Froome, etc there seems little chatter about Nibbles round here!!
It is a shame for the sport and highlights why sponsors pull out and teams struggle.
Oh and quote of the week:
“The young riders are crazy if they still haven't understood that there is no place for doping in cycling,” Gazzetta dello Sport reported Vinokourov as saying.
There, fixed it for you!
Apart from the Iglinsky brothers, all the rest have been part of the (now disbanded - so Vino says) Continental team....
The Astana BePink Womens team have dropped the Astana for next year and back to being BePink, it seems like there are alot of people wanting to distance themselves from this mess...
ah, that's a missing part of the puzzle- I'd seen that Astana were starting a new Women's team and hadn't figured how it all fitted in.
I reckon the suggestion that there's no organised doping may be a good guess- it's all so cack handed!
Could the irony be that there is no organised doping programme at Astana?
Plus I'd imagine after some positives, the team will be a red hot target for the anti doping authorities, so if there is anything going on, they are going to get caught.
Or.... there is something more sinister going on.
My gut though is that desperate kids do desperate things with predictable results.
I do get it though, in the height of the blood manipulation years, many more basic doping methods fell out of common practice, and now these are being 'rediscovered', but unfortunately the tests are still as established as they ever were.
FFS, this is getting silly. There's a piece of the puzzle missing here, isn't there? Why would you dope using substances that can be traced?
Possible reasons I can think of:
They believed what someone else told them, i.e. "it's untraceable, innit?!" - possible, but surely if you're going to risk your career you'd read about the stuff on the internet first?
They were dosing wrong or using masking agents incorrectly, or not adhering to all the relevant windows regarding glowtime etc
They simply thought they wouldn't be caught, but this must mean they thought they wouldn't be tested, or if they were, their transgression would be ignored.
Any others?