ScholaOsloensis Posted February 22, 2014 Report Share Posted February 22, 2014 The flood gates have opened a bit in terms of the number of positive tests. 5 positives, but 4 are for the known contaminant Methylhexhanamine. Basically, everyone who gets caught for this stimulant will use the "vitamin", "sports gel" "energy bar" defence, cause it's known to be a contaminant in some of these products without being on the label. So as an athlete you can try to prove that it was a mistake as the cyclist Rui Costa succesfully did, but that will certainly take some effort and hard evidence. Many athletes might use this stimulant for its performance enhancing effect, we simply don't know, or they were just stupid and unlucky. It's just hard to believe that so many pros would be that careless. Use "safe" vitamins/proteins for god's sake..., Getting busted on EPO is a wildly different animal. Then you're a blood doper and you know the tricks. In my opinion, there's no reason at all to let people caught for EPO or other forms of blood doping back to sports. If it's unquestionable, it should be a ban for life. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StefanMUC Posted February 23, 2014 Report Share Posted February 23, 2014 So Dürr is off the start list for today, it seems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StefanMUC Posted February 23, 2014 Report Share Posted February 23, 2014 So Dürr is off the start list for today, it seems. And here's the confirmation (in German) from Austrain paper Der Standard: http://derstandard.at/1392686059559/Bericht-ueber-Dopingfall-in-Oesterreichs-Langlaufteam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox334 Posted February 23, 2014 Report Share Posted February 23, 2014 (edited) Catching someone that does EPO during the games is indeed a pretty big catch. Glad they got to him before he won any race, he didn't need a new Muhlegg. Edited February 23, 2014 by Fox334 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StefanMUC Posted February 24, 2014 Report Share Posted February 24, 2014 Uh oh...might have been more of a xenon rush than a gold rush for Russia.. http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21595890-obscure-gas-improves-athletes-performance-breathe-it Mind you, it's not banned (yet), but that's a rather obscure way of performance enhancement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petrpetr Posted February 24, 2014 Report Share Posted February 24, 2014 Kristin Stormer Steira will take 2 bronze medals do to the disqualification. Its great that Kristin was able to get bronze individual in Sochi. She had a lot of 4th places in OG and no medal untill this 30km. Fact that only doping of Smigun made her unable to stand on podium could be dramatic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petrpetr Posted March 14, 2014 Report Share Posted March 14, 2014 http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/sport/olympics-polish/1036310.html Daniel Zalewski, member of polish bobsleigh team failed drug test Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox334 Posted March 14, 2014 Report Share Posted March 14, 2014 Backstrom will get his silver medal in men's hockey because he was found to not be responsible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fanbrits johnson Posted March 15, 2016 Report Share Posted March 15, 2016 Trailing winners Tina Maze and Dominique Gisin by 1.25 seconds, Goergl finished 16th in the race that started at 11 a.m. Wednesday. "At 11 last night the doping officials were with me," Goergl told Austrian TV. "I think that's not very fair. I told them it's not OK what they were doing." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMarkSnow2012 Posted March 15, 2016 Report Share Posted March 15, 2016 Trailing winners Tina Maze and Dominique Gisin by 1.25 seconds, Goergl finished 16th in the race that started at 11 a.m. Wednesday. "At 11 last night the doping officials were with me," Goergl told Austrian TV. "I think that's not very fair. I told them it's not OK what they were doing." What was the eventual outcome of Austria's complaint about that potentially detrimental timing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkiFreak Posted May 12, 2016 Report Share Posted May 12, 2016 Doping in the news today: CBC: Doping program fuelled Russian medals at Sochi Olympics: Report As many as 100 dirty urine samples were expunged Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox334 Posted May 15, 2016 Report Share Posted May 15, 2016 According to the report Alexander Legkov, the two and four man bob teams lead by Alexandr Zubkov and Alexander Tretiakov are the gold medalists that where allegedly doping. The report also alleges the entire cross country team and the entire women's ice hockey team was doping. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faster Posted May 16, 2016 Report Share Posted May 16, 2016 According to the report Alexander Legkov, the two and four man bob teams lead by Alexandr Zubkov and Alexander Tretiakov are the gold medalists that where allegedly doping. The report also alleges the entire cross country team and the entire women's ice hockey team was doping. I mean we all suspected there was substantial doping going on. Look at Russia's progressive decline then miraculous performance in Sochi. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intoronto Posted May 16, 2016 Report Share Posted May 16, 2016 Why am I not surprised. As soon as I saw a Russian sweep, I knew the fix was in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StefanMUC Posted May 17, 2016 Report Share Posted May 17, 2016 If only the entire team could be banned from Rio...but that's not going to happen sadly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baron-pierreIV Posted May 17, 2016 Author Report Share Posted May 17, 2016 If only the entire team could be banned from Rio...but that's not going to happen sadly. Like at least in indoor volleyball, doping has never been a big issue because the teams are big enough (12 each) to have subs that success doesn't depend on ONE or 2 star players. And the men's and women's Russian teams to have qualified honestly on their own. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob. Posted May 24, 2016 Report Share Posted May 24, 2016 (edited) --- Edited May 24, 2016 by Rob. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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