> Lab tech's also get tested. Daily.
Seriously? What are they testing for? Certainly not competency. But I'm not
so concerned about the techs as I am their managers. I still haven't heard
about anyone getting fired or even reprimanded over incorrect labeling,
procedures not followed, and unsecured (open to the outside world) computer
systems.
I think if a drug lab is under suspicion of improper procedures, they should
lose their contract. Don't wait until it can be proven they've screwed up.
After all, shouldn't they be held to even higher standards than the riders?
I irony is that I'm fully supportive of the need to clean up cycling. It's
ridiculous that people are out there, apparently in large numbers, paying
big $$$ for illegal performance enhancements. But it's even more ridiculous
that little becomes of such things because we have so little confidence in
the media, the labs, and the courts. We need to step backward a bit, clean
up our act, nail the bastards who are guilty beyond reasonable doubt, and
stop going after people in cases where the data is even questionable. Going
after the questionable cases, when it's quite possible that the accused
actually is innocent, does great harm to the entire process. We need to nail
people solidly and without question. We need to make examples such that,
when riders are caught, they *know* someone's got the goods on them.
Which means we need a system that's going to let some people slip through
the cracks, but overall is going to result in more-professional workings in
the drug labs, fewer goof-ups, and, perhaps most of all, fewer opportunities
for the media to control the destiny of our major races just days before the
start.
--Mike Jacoubowsky
Chain Reaction Bicycles
www.ChainReaction.com
Redwood City & Los Altos, CA USA
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> On 24 Dec 2006 09:11:06 +0100, Davey Crockett
> <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>>Bounty Bob <[email protected]> writes:
>>
>>> You know with all this talk of dna databases and the
>>> drug testing of riders. Do they drug test management
>>> of the teams and UCI? Its about time they started
>>> isn't it?
>>
>>No need to test them
>>
>>Even Tyler's Tugboat can see those Wankerz are smoking bad Hash
>
> Lab tech's also get tested. Daily.
>
> Ron