Doping Cases and Bans 2020 Thread

[heywoodu 16,465]

1 hour ago, phelps said:

here we go again (cit.)...

 

 

Spanish police bust largest ever performance-enhancing drugs gang

 

 

 

"Spain has long been an attractive place to train for athletes."

 

No shit

 

Especially the islands and somewhere on a volcano or something were testers rarely come. Why else do you think there's also a ton of athletes training in remote African places? Because "the conditions are harsher and so it's good to make you tougher"?  

[bestmen 2,924]

Africa has nothing to do in, they prepare these drugs in Europe 

 

[heywoodu 16,465]

8 minutes ago, bestmen said:

Africa has nothing to do in, they prepare these drugs in Europe 

 

And when you want to dope, you go to places where there's the smallest chance of testers getting to you (while still being able to train, so Antarctica doesn't count). This is generally in places like remote African towns and mountains, or the infamous Teide on Tenerife.

[dcro 10,211]

59 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

 

"Spain has long been an attractive place to train for athletes."

 

No shit

 

Especially the islands and somewhere on a volcano or something were testers rarely come. Why else do you think there's also a ton of athletes training in remote African places? Because "the conditions are harsher and so it's good to make you tougher"?  

 

Oh, finally I know why Marianne Vos went to El Salvador that time.

[heywoodu 16,465]

47 minutes ago, dcro said:

 

Oh, finally I know why Marianne Vos went to El Salvador that time.

 

And every cycling fan in the Netherlands is not sceptical at all about Van Vleuten going to El Teide all the time  

[heywoodu 16,465]

Oh my gosh. Such shock. Quelle surprise. "We all never saw this coming." Etc etc. Next thing you know water is wet. 

 

 

[dcro 10,211]

Apparently Coronavirus has been reported on Canary islands. This will stop testers from coming!

[heywoodu 16,465]

5 hours ago, dcro said:

Apparently Coronavirus has been reported on Canary islands. This will stop testers from coming!

 

Good timing, because wonderboys Fuglsang and Lutsenko, together with several other Astana-Kawasaki's, are on the Teide right now  

[MHSN 3,813]

Olympic medalist and multiple World Champion in wrestling Bilyal Makhov tested positive for doping

https://tass.com/sport/1115731

[Wumo 3,035]

An A-sample has shown that former World Champion and Olympic bronze medallist, Jenny Fransson, has been tested positive for doping. This was announced by The Swedish Olympic Committee in a press release: https://sok.se/arkiv-for-artiklar/2020-02-03-sok-om-jenny-franssons-prov.html (in Swedish) 

 

The Swedish wrestler is taken out of the Swedish Olympic squad pending a second test to be analyzed.

Jenny Fransson has left a doping test showing traces of methyl testosterone, an anabolic steroid.