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Daehlie and the Famous 1994 Winter Olympics Relay
Seeing the pics of Daehlie skiing the Birkie brought back memories of
my favorite Winter Olympics and race in Norway in 1994. I did some searches of other stand out athletes from those same games for example Manuela DiCenta. One thing lead to another and my searches showed DiCenta's ties with Conconi the Italian Doctor who introduced the cycling world to EPO. Eventually I came to a shopping list of athletes who were clients of Conconi. My heart sank when I saw the entire Men's Italian Olympic Relay Team from 1994 as being clients of Conconi's. Also part of the list included Bjarne Riis (admitted winning The Tour this year with EPO), Stephen Roche (winner of The Tour), and may other cyclists.I know we have hammered the doping issue at RSN in the past, but I've never seen such info layed out before. Perhaps Daehlie is owned that Relay Gold along with Stureson, Ulvang, and Alsgard. Finally the article I found said Stephania Belmondo would not acknowlege DiCenta's congratulations in Salt Lake when she won the Gold. It was suggested Belmondo was disgusted with DiCenta's past cheating to reach success. For some reason I couldn't copy and paste the Wikpedia article on Conconi. If you're interested just do a search for Conconi Wikpedia and scroll down for the Clients List link. |
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Daehlie and the Famous 1994 Winter Olympics Relay
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 05:10:56 -0800 (PST), ADK Skier
wrote: Seeing the pics of Daehlie skiing the Birkie brought back memories of my favorite Winter Olympics and race in Norway in 1994. I did some searches of other stand out athletes from those same games for example Manuela DiCenta. One thing lead to another and my searches showed DiCenta's ties with Conconi the Italian Doctor who introduced the cycling world to EPO. Eventually I came to a shopping list of athletes who were clients of Conconi. My heart sank when I saw the entire Men's Italian Olympic Relay Team from 1994 as being clients of Conconi's. Also part of the list included Bjarne Riis (admitted winning The Tour this year with EPO), Stephen Roche (winner of The Tour), and may other cyclists.I know we have hammered the doping issue at RSN in the past, but I've never seen such info layed out before. Perhaps Daehlie is owned that Relay Gold along with Stureson, Ulvang, and Alsgard. Finally the article I found said Stephania Belmondo would not acknowlege DiCenta's congratulations in Salt Lake when she won the Gold. It was suggested Belmondo was disgusted with DiCenta's past cheating to reach success. For some reason I couldn't copy and paste the Wikpedia article on Conconi. If you're interested just do a search for Conconi Wikpedia and scroll down for the Clients List link. Two things. One is that Conconi, beyond doping, was pretty smart guy on training. He popularized finding anaerobic threshold via a field test. This is really useful in training and (especially for cyclists and runners) can be done easily and often to set training zones. Second, this: http://www.johnnyklister.com/post/79...he-birkie-back |
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