USADA now after Lance

latest http://www.latimes.com/sports/sport...rong-usada-20120710,0,1183148.story?track=rss

USADA deals lifetime bans to Lance Armstrong-linked doctors, trainer

By Lance Pugmire
10:50 AM PDT, July 10, 2012


Two doctors and a team trainer associated with Lance Armstrong’s cycling teams during his run of seven consecutive Tour de France titles received lifetime bans Tuesday for doping violations from the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency.
Dr. Luis Garcia del Moral of Spain, Dr. Michele Ferrari of Italy and trainer Jose "Pepi" Marti of Spain all participated in what the USADA describes as a "sophisticated, far-reaching doping conspiracy" with the former U.S. Postal Service team.
The individuals were not immediately available for comment. A spokesman for Armstrong declined comment.
"Permanently banning these individuals from sport is a powerful statement that protects the current and next generation of athletes from their influence, and preserves the integrity of future competition," USADA Chief Executive Travis Tygart said in a prepared statement.
Del Moral was team physician from 1999 to 2003 for the U.S. Postal Service team that counted Armstrong as a member.
Armstrong won the Tour from 1999 to 2005. He has been charged by a USADA review board with engaging in the doping conspiracy, but has repeatedly professed his innocence, citing hundreds of clean drug tests.
On Monday, Armstrong sued the USADA over its effort to strip him of his seven Tour titles. A judge quickly dismissed the suit, scolding Armstrong’s legal team for seeking publicity, but the lawyers are expected to refile the suit, perhaps as soon as today.
The USADA revealed in its Tuesday news release an abundance of evidence it has gathered against those close to the cycling great.
The USADA reported that from 2000 Del Moral "was intimately involved in the prohibited method of blood transfusions which cyclists use to boost the number of circulating red blood cells to increase the oxygen-carrying capacity of the blood and increase endurance.
"Dr. Del Moral brought riders to his sports medicine clinic in Valencia, Spain, where he withdrew blood for prohibited blood transfusions. Dr. Del Moral also assisted with saline infusions in order to keep the rider’s blood levels below threshold levels to avoid detection of their drug use."
The USADA also says it established that Del Moral "administered banned performance-enhancing drugs including EPO, testosterone, corticosteroids and human growth hormone to cyclists by providing these drugs to them, recommending the use of these drugs and directly injecting riders with these prohibited drugs."
According to the USADA, Ferrari was a consulting doctor to "numerous" U.S. Postal Service and Discovery Channel team riders from 1999 through 2006 who "developed a distinctive mixture of testosterone and olive oil to be administered under the tongue to assist in recovery during races and training."
The mixture, the USADA says, was known as the "oil."
According to the USADA, Ferrari "also advised riders on the use of the banned oxygen enhancer EPO with detailed instructions regarding clearance times, how the EPO drug test worked and how to avoid detection of the drug.
"Dr. Ferrari specifically advised riders to inject EPO intravenously in order to avoid the drug showing up in a urine drug test. Dr. Ferrari was present and assisted during instances of prohibited blood doping and EPO use by USPS team members. Dr. Ferrari developed detailed training schedules for riders which included coded symbols designating when EPO should be used and the amount of the drug to inject."
According to the USADA, Marti, as trainer for the Postal Service and Discovery teams from 1999 through 2007, "delivered performance-enhancing drugs … to locations where the riders were living in Europe … and at training camps and cycling races."
Ferrari, Del Moral and Marti did not seek arbitration or request an extension — as Armstrong has done — after the charges that were brought by the USADA review board, a USADA spokeswoman said.

 

The USADA, the Tour de france, and all of competitive cycling "profit seekers" should be kissing Lance's A**. He single handidly took this backwater sport to an elite marketing level. Do you think 99.9% of Americans would watch a second of the TDF coverage if it wasn't for Lance's exploits during his 7 yellow jersey runs????? He obviously juiced himself, like 100% of all the other riders at that time.....get over it USADA and be thankful you have a job (because of Lance also!!!!). I think they should instead give him a special commendation, for figuring out an ingenious way to mask his doping all those years!!

 

.1%'er here.

 

Know we know why the millions of people that lined the street's Yelled Dope as Cancer Jesus passed by.I hope the livestrong people can channel more $ to sweep this thing under the rug.

 

^^^ I've been watching since the LeMond Tours.

Lance has had a big influence on U.S. cycling, but worldwide, not so much.

 

+1. What are they going to do, give the yellow jersey to some guy who came in 50th because he was the first in line to not dope, How Exciting!

 

Read this article that eric foltz posted: http://nyvelocity.com/content/interviews/2009/michael-ashenden

Read the whole thing. It's pretty eye-opening.

That should help the issue make more sense.

I can't let this nonsense slide by...you are saying that that US ANTI-DOPING AGENCY should be thanking him for their jobs? Do you comprehend the logical fallacy there?

As for your other points, they make about as much sense as that one.

 

That's exactly what I'm saying!!! If no one was doping (including Lance) these USADA guys would have no job (which you, me, and my barber pay for)!!!!! I think we (in the US) have a lot more important things to spend taxpayer $$'s on than trying to figure out if a bunch of testorerone-charged bicycle riders, are attempting to reduce their life expectancy in order to get a cheek-kiss by some French high -school girl....

 

I dedicate my next bong hit to you Jorge! Yeah :bang:! Go Lance Go, cycling is meaningless without Livestrong! Backwater sport indeed!

Oh man, I might need more than a few bong loads to reach that level of ignorance. But, I'll give it my best shot.:drunk:

 

No, it didn't help. That article was about EPO. I've read that article before and I don't dispute the fact that Lance and most of the peloton were using EPO in 1999 and prior to the urine test.

The comment I was responding to was an incoherent, misspelled listing of allegations and made no sense.

 

That's very powerful evidence but they have not provided a scientific proof that he doped. They did not show that the test has a zero probability of giving false positives on old urine samples. To do that they must test 1999 urine samples from people known to be EPO free. If any of those tests show a (false) positive for EPO then Lance is off the hook. Keep believing.

 

First we had "The Chronic"...Now we have "The Oil"

 

It's kinda weird that Contador is never mentioned on EuroSports. He's been dispatched to personna-non-grataville tout sweet.
He'll be back and probably kick butt for another few Tours and it's like he doesn't even exist.

Armstrong is 40, all geeked out in tri-schtick and essentially, finally, washed up. Something odd about all this.

 

Whether or not Armstrong doped and the impacts of such actions on the sport of cycling are only part of the story. In fact, I think you could make a case that those are relatively trivial.

One of the things that's really bothered me as this thing has unfolded is the role of the USADA and the methodology of the investigation and sanctioning processes. It's also baffled me that Armstrong and other athletes seem to be forced to give up their constitutional rights - freedom from illegal search and the right to face their accusers in court - and are essentially being considered guilty until proven innocent. This article from Outside is an excellent exploration of the process, of the authority - real and assumed - of the USADA, and the potential larger implications of this case for society and civil rights. Given the stakes and the resources of each side, I can easily imagining this taking many more years to play out and going far up the court system before it's decided. I think it will be fascinating to see how it all unfolds.

Outside Magazine article:
Lance Armstrong: Victim?

(Ps: Credit to Dirtmistress for linking this article on FB)

 

cheater, cheater punkin eater

 

If your not cheating your not trying.

 

http://velonews.competitor.com/2012...sts-probe-of-usada-over-armstrong-case_229472

I'm guessing Lance made a donation to the congressman.

I am curious where the 9M in tax money is going though.

 

^^^ Sensenbrenner is from Wisconsin. I'm guessing he's acting on behalf of Trek.

Although LA and Trek might as well be the same based on their relationship over the years.

 

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303612804577531353567249064.html?mod=googlenews_wsj Nice way to spend Livestrong Donations.

 

This is so freekin wrong! He has yet to be convicted, even by them, yet they are trying to bar him from sports now? Some how this agency needs to be reined in and made aware of our Constitution!