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Hey Nathan, seeing that I am fixated on names - I pulled this from the
team fsx site: Women's final 1. Kikkan Randall 2. Dasha Gaizova 3. Kate Underpants 4. Ida Sargent Is #3 for real? bt |
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Kate Underpants = Kate Underwood.
There is a lot of partying at Spring Series, so I can only guess how that came about. -Nathan sknyski wrote: Hey Nathan, seeing that I am fixated on names - I pulled this from the team fsx site: Women's final 1. Kikkan Randall 2. Dasha Gaizova 3. Kate Underpants 4. Ida Sargent Is #3 for real? bt |
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Thanks. That's actually pretty funny.
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I've taken a great interest in Nathan's recent blog entry and the
website: http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?...amilton_appeal and Tyler's site. My point of view is from the scientist doing the tests, so I might be biased in my take on the whole suspension case. The defense in a case like this will try to establish that a test is not accurate, so the whole result should be thrown out. E.g., on 4/29/04, Tyler was tested at a hematocrit of 49.7% with a high HR-OFF Stimulation Index (SI) and a low reticulocyte. On Tyler's site, they say the calibration was known to be incorrect that day, but of course the real question is incorrect by how much? Going from a value HR-OFF of 123.8 to 132.9 in five days (see the news article) indicated some manipulation to the UCI, and Tyler was warned. Then of course were the famous incidents, the Athen's positive A test with the botched B sample, so the whole test is negative, and the Vuelta samples testing positive for homologous blood doping. To make matters worse for Tyler, his roommate tested postive for homologous blood doping in October. So the defense will argue that the Athen's test should not be considered since it could not be retested. There were a number of arguments against the testing in general, and the roommate incident has nothing to do with Tyler's case. Tyler states he had a blood sample stored from the 04 Vuelta, but also that Tyler transported this sample from Spain to MIT for testing. Wow. He should have had an independent third party split the sample, have half tested by the UCI and half sent to MIT. There's some serious chain of custody issues with Tyler transporting his own sample. To a jury (or the UCI), I think they probably looked at all the evidence (nothing was thrown out) and the trend from all these events was the reason for a suspension. So Nathan asks, what do you say to a doper? How about looking them straight in the eye and saying, "I hate dopers. I don't hate the people, but I hate the choice they make to cheat. I think they should be banned for life from competition. If you didn't dope we're fine." |
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