Here's a soap box subject to start the new topic!
I fully support drug free cycling but the testing procedures and/or levels seem to be getting stupid!
Garzelli gets done for coke and reckons it was in some sweets he ate, Simoni reckons the his positive test was from eating chicken and Ullrich reckons a two E's gave him the positive test.
All these are plausible stories I guess (depending on the amount of each drug found in the body). Surely they can tell how much the rider took based on the amount in the urine/blood? Or maybe the rider took a massive amount some time ago and it's diluted enough to look like it was just a little....maybe teams should be made to test their riders once a month (overseen by a UCI official at the team's expense) - that way they can 'believe' the chicken, sweets and E stories and save the careers of pro cyclists who accidently injest the wrong subtance....
It seems to be getting to the point where pro cyclists can only eat organic food that they grew themselves to avoid ingesting steroids and the like that modern industrial farming methods use.
What say ye?
I fully support drug free cycling but the testing procedures and/or levels seem to be getting stupid!
Garzelli gets done for coke and reckons it was in some sweets he ate, Simoni reckons the his positive test was from eating chicken and Ullrich reckons a two E's gave him the positive test.
All these are plausible stories I guess (depending on the amount of each drug found in the body). Surely they can tell how much the rider took based on the amount in the urine/blood? Or maybe the rider took a massive amount some time ago and it's diluted enough to look like it was just a little....maybe teams should be made to test their riders once a month (overseen by a UCI official at the team's expense) - that way they can 'believe' the chicken, sweets and E stories and save the careers of pro cyclists who accidently injest the wrong subtance....
It seems to be getting to the point where pro cyclists can only eat organic food that they grew themselves to avoid ingesting steroids and the like that modern industrial farming methods use.
What say ye?