UCI Suspends Larpe, Coló For Drug Positives | Cyclingnews.com
Cycling’s governing body lists fines, sanctions handed to Dekker, Astarloza
Mickael Larpe (Roubaix Lille Metropole) and Alessandro Coló (ISD-Neri) have been provisionally suspended by the International Cycling Union (UCI) after respective positive tests for EPO and clenbuterol. The UCI have also confirmed sanctions and fines issued by four national federations to eight individual riders, including Thomas Dekker and Mikel Astarloza.
UCI Suspends Larpe, Coló For Drug Positives | Cyclingnews.com
Cycling’s governing body lists fines, sanctions handed to Dekker, Astarloza
Mickael Larpe (Roubaix Lille Metropole) and Alessandro Coló (ISD-Neri) have been provisionally suspended by the International Cycling Union (UCI) after respective positive tests for EPO and clenbuterol. The UCI have also confirmed sanctions and fines issued by four national federations to eight individual riders, including Thomas Dekker and Mikel Astarloza.
In cycle sport bulking up doesn’t help much at all, unless perhaps you are a track sprinter. So when a roadie or MTBer gets pinged there’s usually a different story; often it’s a desire to come back quickly after an injury. The alternative explanation is that a testosterone patch helps post-race or heavy training load recovery, something that is unproven but widely believed. Unproven it may be, however if you do believe it works, for you it probably does. It’s that old mind-over-matter thing.
Clinger Given Two-year Suspension For Doping | Cyclingnews.com
Positive test at 2009 US elite road nationals
The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) announced today that an American Arbitration Association/Court of Arbitration for Sport (AAA/CAS) panel issued its decision that David Clinger receive a two-year suspension for doping violations.
Filed under CONI, Valverde by Rob.
In cycle sport bulking up doesn’t help much at all, unless perhaps you are a track sprinter. So when a roadie or MTBer gets pinged there’s usually a different story; often it’s a desire to come back quickly after an injury. The alternative explanation is that a testosterone patch helps post-race or heavy training load recovery, something that is unproven but widely believed. Unproven it may be, however if you do believe it works, for you it probably does. It’s that old mind-over-matter thing.
Clinger Given Two-year Suspension For Doping | Cyclingnews.com
Positive test at 2009 US elite road nationals
The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) announced today that an American Arbitration Association/Court of Arbitration for Sport (AAA/CAS) panel issued its decision that David Clinger receive a two-year suspension for doping violations.
Filed under CONI, Valverde by Rob.
Well CONI want him out for 2 years, apparently.
Di Luca finished fourth in the 17th stage last year, a climb up the Monte Zoncolan, and was tested directly after the stage. A surprise doping test later that evening showed hormone levels below normal, or equivalent to those of a child, but did not show any banned substances. CONI speculated that he received injections between the end of the stage and the tests, which altered his hormone level. Di Luca, who signed a one-year contract with Team LPR for this season, served a three-month suspension over the winter for his involvement in the “Oil for Drugs” scandal. He has indicated that he will appeal any conviction to the Court of Appeal for Sports (CAS) in Lausanne.
What CONI is saying is that Di Luca’s hormone levels were way too low to be believed. They are speculating that he took “something” to mask what were really elevated levels. Presumably these were elevated levels of testosterone, cortisol and Human Growth hormone, or perhaps anything performance-enhancing really. (If I find the list I’ll let you know.) Hormones basically control (directly or not) everything from recovery rate to red blood cell production, so to manipulate these values is a big performance advantage. There’s no such advantage in having “child-like” values, indeed it would lessen your riding ability, not increase it. So either Di Luca was “sick” or “tired” which suppressed his hormones excessively to these low numbers or he was playing a dangerous game with masking agents.
Of course the testing may be in error. It’s a good fall-back but it may be true. However there is one other alternative – if you spend enough time on artificial levels of these hormones your body will shut down most of its own production and become reliant on the supplementary levels. If you reduce this artificial level of input suddenly you fall back to what the body is producing naturally – which would be a suppressed, “child-like” level. After a few days you recover to normal levels as your body senses the lack of hormone. This is also a dangerous game as low levels of various hormones will have undesirable side-effects like passing out, getting the shakes and so on; it can certainly kill you in extremis. It certainly wouldn’t enhance your riding.
I personally don’t know how Di Luca could ride at his level with “child-like” levels of key hormones. Even just one day of that would knock you back severely. The truth remains “out there” somewhere.
Well CONI want him out for 2 years, apparently.
Di Luca finished fourth in the 17th stage last year, a climb up the Monte Zoncolan, and was tested directly after the stage. A surprise doping test later that evening showed hormone levels below normal, or equivalent to those of a child, but did not show any banned substances. CONI speculated that he received injections between the end of the stage and the tests, which altered his hormone level. Di Luca, who signed a one-year contract with Team LPR for this season, served a three-month suspension over the winter for his involvement in the “Oil for Drugs” scandal. He has indicated that he will appeal any conviction to the Court of Appeal for Sports (CAS) in Lausanne.
What CONI is saying is that Di Luca’s hormone levels were way too low to be believed. They are speculating that he took “something” to mask what were really elevated levels. Presumably these were elevated levels of testosterone, cortisol and Human Growth hormone, or perhaps anything performance-enhancing really. (If I find the list I’ll let you know.) Hormones basically control (directly or not) everything from recovery rate to red blood cell production, so to manipulate these values is a big performance advantage. There’s no such advantage in having “child-like” values, indeed it would lessen your riding ability, not increase it. So either Di Luca was “sick” or “tired” which suppressed his hormones excessively to these low numbers or he was playing a dangerous game with masking agents.
Of course the testing may be in error. It’s a good fall-back but it may be true. However there is one other alternative – if you spend enough time on artificial levels of these hormones your body will shut down most of its own production and become reliant on the supplementary levels. If you reduce this artificial level of input suddenly you fall back to what the body is producing naturally – which would be a suppressed, “child-like” level. After a few days you recover to normal levels as your body senses the lack of hormone. This is also a dangerous game as low levels of various hormones will have undesirable side-effects like passing out, getting the shakes and so on; it can certainly kill you in extremis. It certainly wouldn’t enhance your riding.
I personally don’t know how Di Luca could ride at his level with “child-like” levels of key hormones. Even just one day of that would knock you back severely. The truth remains “out there” somewhere.
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