Real Primer on Doping
Real Primer on Doping
... posted February 20, 2003 at 1:06 by tired of the BS
Despite my admiration for Verbruggen's work introducing the world cup and the points system, he's still playing catch up in doping. Pro cycling is not at the forefront, it's being forced by civil governments to act. Here's a few holes in his UCI propoganda. Decide for yourself.
First death in the propoganda was Tom Simpson in 1967, but Jensen from Denmark died from stimulants at the 1960 Rome Olympics 100 km. How did they overlook that? Maybe it makes waiting until 1964 to strike a "medical" commission look negligent?
1988 Bauer was leading the Tour, and Delgado tested positive for probenicid. Or at least, so the UCI and IOC accredited lab in Paris said. Oops, FICP (the pro cycling federation) had decided not to put probenicid on their banned list (Why do they need a seperate one anyway?), even though the IOC had added it a YEAR earlier. Why is it banned? It's a drug for gout, with no purpose in young healthy people, except it happens to mask steroids. Guess who stays in, and wins the tour? Delgado. Guess who is the president of FICP? Verbruggen.
1988 Johnson is caught, Dubin has his enquiry, out-of-competition testing to catch steroid use begins in Canada. 2003 Number of UCI out-of-competition tests, (where EPO and steroids are actually used)? ZERO. Oops, UCI doesn't refer to out of competition tests in it's propaganda at all. By the way, none of the Canadian out-of-competition positives have been thrown out by courts. But for UCI, it's much too difficult to prosecute.
Modern methods of securing samples have been around since 1984 Olympics. Five years later, the UCI is still training commissaires to use sealing wax (yeah, the same stuff medieval kings sealed letters with, and dead easy to "re-seal".) Spare me the "careful procedures" Hein.
1992 Hein gets the new UCI prez job. Oops again. IOC is taking doping more seriously since Johnson. Hein wants an IOC job. Declares an antidping commission. Meanwhile, the penalty for steroids, a drug requiring methodical, continuing cheating, is still 10 minutes off your time in the tour...Cycling is a laughing stock in serious antidoping circles.
1998 Festina affair. Hein is quoted saying that the police searches are unfair, blah blah blah. Not a word about about a doping problem.
2003 6 months penalty still proposed by Hein. Steroids and EPO take ongoing, repeated doses; systemitized cheating, not some accidental cold medication. A six month penality is a tour training camp.
Good for Hein saying doping is bad. But let's not swallow his 'rider health' and 'bad US pro leagues' smoke screens. He's doing nothing until WADA and the Euro governments make him.
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