Curious to follow the fallout from this, especially as brailsford steps back in.
In a way it’s a shame to drag up the murky past; I’m glad that the sport finally realized that riders can achieve record breaking times by just eating lots of carbs and wearing larger helmets.
Interesting to se that the chap at the centre of it has now been named by L’Equipe and The Times, allowing EC to name him as well.
Is there a good article somewhere that explains more about why mentioning Milram is incriminating?
do you think this is why Pinarello is stepping away from Ineos, and if no, anyone want to join us in making a d/EscapeCollective bike brand so we can crowd sponsor Ineos with a sick new open mold progressive geo
Ivan Glasenberg (South African billionaire) owns Team Q36.5 as well as Pinarello (as well as investing in the Q36.5 clothing brand and a few other brands). This is the reason Pinarello is going from Ineos to Q36.5.
thank you for that nugget – yo wow!
Look up the doping case of Alessandro Petacchi. He was sanctioned for salbutamol. The same substance that Froome tested positive for, but avoided a sanction after Sky lawyers threanted to (figuratively) burn WADA to the ground.
Hi all. I recently joined Escape Collective, and I just popped in here to say, I was listening to the most recent podcast where the question was posed: Why cover doping?
I’ll say that part of my goodwill towards Escape that led me to join was due to the carbon monoxide story from last year.
There are so many reasons that it’s good to shine a spotlight of these things, but if you want some hair raising doping stories, have a read of Unfair Play: The battle for women’s sport. Doping is tangential to the main subject of the book, but it lays out some very compelling arguments for why athletes become the victims, and how a small number of cheats can disenfranchise a large number of people.
+1 As the saying goes, sunlight is the best disinfectant. Want a clean sport? Cover doping.
Just to complete the circle, Petacchi was riding for Team Milram. When I first heard the story I thought maybe Milram was one of those multi-national conglomerates that also had a pharmaceutical division or something.
Carbon Monoxide - has been banned. This article popped into my inbox from Training Peaks - it seemed on the naive side of gullible. https://www.trainingpeaks.com/blog/carbon-monoxide-rebreathing/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=athletenewsletter_coachedathletes_aug16