Sinkewitz is our next positive rider
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Is this true? So his head butting an aged spectator and crashing out was just a ruse to get him away from the race and out of the spotlight when this news broke. Some people will go to any lengths. Did internal team controls or UCI controls catch him?Dead Star said:
German T-Mobile rider Patrik Sinkewitz has tested positive for elevated levels of testosterone, the German cycling federation (BDR) have confirmed.
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Germany's National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) had informed the federation that a test on a first sample Sinkewitz gave on June 8 had shown increased levels of the hormone, the BDR confirmed.
The BDR said it would write to Sinkewitz and he would then have five days to decide whether or not to request a second sample given on June 8 be tested.
If that confirmed the positive result, the BDR would take the case to the federal court for sport, the federation added.
Sinkewitz earlier this week pulled out of the Tour de France with a broken nose and a shoulder injury after a collision with a spectator.
The 26-year-old rider is still receiving treatment in a hospital in Hamburg, the BDR said.
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Germany's National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) had informed the federation that a test on a first sample Sinkewitz gave on June 8 had shown increased levels of the hormone, the BDR confirmed.
The BDR said it would write to Sinkewitz and he would then have five days to decide whether or not to request a second sample given on June 8 be tested.
If that confirmed the positive result, the BDR would take the case to the federal court for sport, the federation added.
Sinkewitz earlier this week pulled out of the Tour de France with a broken nose and a shoulder injury after a collision with a spectator.
The 26-year-old rider is still receiving treatment in a hospital in Hamburg, the BDR said.
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Instead of showing the Tour regular programming will be replaced by a comedy bloopers show with the first segment being zany Germans who ride their bikes into dogs and innocent spectators...... will make riveting viewing.... who says the Germans don't have a sense of humour ?Dead Star said:
I do. My aunt is German and the only time I ever saw her laugh was to a dog-related joke - true.whiteboytrash said:
This is a shame, after the good work Linus Gerdeman has done for cycling, just as well he had his day in yellow before the home channels pulled the plug and replaced him with Tante's Bloomers!
Yeah Germans love their dog humour.... they love bringing dogs to restaurants, they encourage their dogs to hump their legs and they love wearing zany jumpers with knitted dogs on them.....Rolfrae said:
No that Wesseman and Sink are out, is there anyone old-school German still doping? German cycling's problem lies in the doping on foreign riders now. When I think of German cycling now I think of Gerdeman, Ciolek, Wegman etc. These young guys will only pull German cycling back up if a clean and level-playing field allows them to win. Germans love winners, not losers, no matter how dope-free those losers might be. Germans also love funny dogs.Gregers said:
Argh....just reading reports online, I guess the dog in yesterday's stage belonged to Sinkewitz.steve said:
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news/2007/jul07/jul18news4
The problem is AFAIK (and I wanted to discuss this in Dr. House's thread '51 blood tests...' but it was unfortunately closed, and anyway, too many tin foil hats in there), that most tests take time. What can be checked fast and reliably is (AFAIK) the hematocrit level, and I think that was the test which they reported on (meaning all 51 riders were below 50, but they don't make any statement how they might have arrived at, say 48.5).Trev_S said:
Other tests are more involved. For instance hematocrit=/=artificial oxygen carriers such as Hemopure (commonly called 'cow blood') or Polyheme (which is produced from human blood). I'm not even sure they (can) test for those things. Then there's all the steroids such as testosteron etc. And don't forget the presence of possible masking agents. There's a reason Landis rode to Paris last year. Some tests simply take time.
I would guess that they have to check the B sample now, but they might only check for the T/E ratio. Then WADA would have to argue that the T is exogenous (hard to test) and so on. It could drag out (as always).
So, does that mean Sinkewitz'll have to pay one year of his salary? And tough luck for the German viewers. Although I have no delusions about a clean TdF this year, I'd rather see it than not.
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