Eliminating B Sample Test Requirement Is A Bad Idea

by Rant November 13, 2007

One of the very few real protections for athletes in the current anti-doping system is the requirement that a B sample confirm the results of an initial adverse finding in the A sample before a doping case can be prosecuted. If certain forces within the World Anti-Doping Agency milieu get their way, the requirement that […]

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News From The Landis Front

by Rant November 12, 2007

Lots of stuff happening over the last few days. Or, at least, it feels that way. In this post, I’ll take a look at the latest Landis news. In another post (if I’m not too tired after this one), I’ll dig into the latest in the saga of Michael Rasmussen. CAS Panel Appointed For Landis […]

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Rasmussen’s Numbers

by Rant November 11, 2007

At the news conference on Thursday, where Michael Rasmussen admitted to lying about his whereabouts to the UCI and the media, the Danish cyclist released a collection of lab data from various tests for samples given by him for anti-doping tests in the last couple of years. The data concerned his hematocrit and hemoglobin values, […]

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Dick Pound’s Swan Song

by Rant November 11, 2007

Today’s Telegraph online edition features an interview with Dick Pound, on the eve of his passing the leadership of the World Anti-Doping Agency to John Fahey of Australia. Pound, ever the controversial quotemeister (as Lance Armstrong once called him) pulls no punches in his comments to Simon Hart. The out-going leader of WADA is unrepentant […]

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Put *That* In Your Pipe And Smoke It!

by Rant November 9, 2007

Whatever Greg LeMond’s been smoking (if it’s legal), he should package and sell it to those looking to achieve an altered state of consciousness. At a recent meeting in Chicago, where anti-doping issues were being discussed, LeMond said: Unlike the defense attorneys, I think the process is skewed [in favor of] the athletes. The governing […]

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Tangled Webs Of Deception

by Rant November 8, 2007

O, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive! – Sir Walter Scott, Marmion The road to Hell, the old saying goes, is paved with good intentions. (Except in Michigan, where the road to Hell is merely paved.) Michael Rasmussen held a press conference today in Copenhagen, to tell his side […]

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