WADA provisionally suspends Chatenay-Malabry laboratory
cyclingnews.com/news/wada-provisionally-suspe...Posted Sep 27, 2017, 12:59 PM UTC
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Meanwhile we keep waiting for Cardoso B sample, worse there are rumors that it came back negative, if so this is unacceptable for the UCI.
Either only punish the rider on the B sample or make the test take 2 weeks tops
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The B-sample testing is often delayed by the athlete, who gets to nominate a witness who then has to schedule a time. Set a two week limit - any limit - and I promise you, it will be gamed.
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How do you game a 2 week limit and have it take more than 2 weeks? What does it matter to the athlete who is still always provisionally suspended until that time the B sample is tested? What exactly is their incentive here?
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Actually, I misread what was suggested as saying let the rider back if the sample isn't tested inside two weeks. My bad.
Not punishing the rider until the B sample is where I think my confusion arose: do that and the rider will delay the B result for as long as possible in order to continue riding.
The two week limit - in the back of my mind, I have the notion that WADA guidelines advise 10 days but allow discretion, with discretion being the problem. A serious issue, though, is that 10 days - even two weeks - may not be enough: remember, you get a call out of the blue, your world is pulled apart, and then you have to find the expert, probably after you've lawyered up, and then you have to get that expert to the laboratory, at a time that is mutually convenient for the other parties.
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If you want to set a 2 week limit, I'd say make it this: The athlete has 2 weeks to decide if they want to be present for the B sample, if they don't want to witness, then it goes ASAP. If they do want to witness, they must get to the lab within 2 weeks from the date of their decision or it goes ahead without them.
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Looks like some of their equipment became contaminated by some particularly steroid heavy urine. I wouldn't mind knowing whose urine had so much steroids in it they essentially broke the testing equipment.
Bodybuilders, apparently.
Bodybuilders get tested? I mean, I believe there are "natural" vs. untested categories. But what's the point? As usual, where's the money in cheating in bodybuilding?
I know some skinny bloke in Belgium got 3rd on the national championships coz the others ran away when they saw the doping commision arrive.
Ha! Would there be fines for this? Or just disqualification?
Oddly, yes. The International Federation of Bodybuilding and Fitness has anti-doping rules. As for why: fame, fortune, vanity?
I guess so....it's like trying to cheat your way into the Paraolympics without a disability in my mind.
Weaksauce. Actually, that's what these guys are: weak. Come at me bros!!
Competition money, endorsements and being a big name gives you the ability to sell to people on social media...as "full natty" of course.
Also, they can say they're rich in vascularity and striated muscle.