Italian tribunal delivers Valverde two-year suspension
05-11-09, 07:55 AM
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Italian tribunal delivers Valverde two-year suspension
https://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?...y09/may11news3
Alejandro Valverde received a two-year suspension from the Italian anti-doping tribunal today in Rome for his connections to the 2006 doping investigation Operación Puerto. The decision prohibits the Spaniard, 29, from racing in Italy and the Tour de France, which passes through the country this year.
Alejandro Valverde received a two-year suspension from the Italian anti-doping tribunal today in Rome for his connections to the 2006 doping investigation Operación Puerto. The decision prohibits the Spaniard, 29, from racing in Italy and the Tour de France, which passes through the country this year.
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https://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?...y09/may11news3
Alejandro Valverde received a two-year suspension from the Italian anti-doping tribunal today in Rome for his connections to the 2006 doping investigation Operación Puerto. The decision prohibits the Spaniard, 29, from racing in Italy and the Tour de France, which passes through the country this year.
Alejandro Valverde received a two-year suspension from the Italian anti-doping tribunal today in Rome for his connections to the 2006 doping investigation Operación Puerto. The decision prohibits the Spaniard, 29, from racing in Italy and the Tour de France, which passes through the country this year.
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I somewhat feel for the guy; am a bit conflicted. Yes, I think he violated the rules, for certain, but it's a shame that he's probably been 'clean' [or at least under more scrutiny/biological passport] for the past few years, and is only getting slammed now.
An unfortunate case.
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I somewhat feel for the guy; am a bit conflicted. Yes, I think he violated the rules, for certain, but it's a shame that he's probably been 'clean' [or at least under more scrutiny/biological passport] for the past few years, and is only getting slammed now.
An unfortunate case.
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05-11-09, 12:25 PM
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This is part of the long term plan for the UCI to destroy professional cycling. It's a little known fact that the UCI has always hated cycling, and cyclists in general. If they can continually dredge up charges against riders then the negative press will never end. It's just part of the plan, along with banning anything interesting that a company builds for it's TT bikes. My guess is that 2012 is the date they are shooting for to end cycling as a professional sport. They picked that date as it coincides with the end of the world according the all the Mayan calender.
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soo he gets to spend 3 years with this cloud over his head, and getting kicked from some races (more if the UCI had gotten their way), and after all that he gets a 2 year ban from the biggest races going. All for having blood in a lab that had ties to doping? Ugh...
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and Manny gets a 50 game suspension.
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Basso was suspended for essentially the same thing.
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It must be summer. Ahhhh doping. How I missed you...
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First the blood tested positive for EPO. https://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?...ov06/nov26news
Now, the DNA confirms that it was his blood. https://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?...y09/may11news3
If he had wanted to clear this up faster and not been subject to the 3 year cloud, he could have voluntarily submitted DNA samples.
He cheated. He deserves to be punished.
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No, for having his blood, which was found in a doping lab, test positive for EPO.
First the blood tested positive for EPO. https://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?...ov06/nov26news
Now, the DNA confirms that it was his blood. https://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?...y09/may11news3
If he had wanted to clear this up faster and not been subject to the 3 year cloud, he could have voluntarily submitted DNA samples.
He cheated. He deserves to be punished.
First the blood tested positive for EPO. https://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?...ov06/nov26news
Now, the DNA confirms that it was his blood. https://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?...y09/may11news3
If he had wanted to clear this up faster and not been subject to the 3 year cloud, he could have voluntarily submitted DNA samples.
He cheated. He deserves to be punished.
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Was the blood taken as a sample to test for doping?
If a doping lab is disreputable, it wouldn't be too far fetched to consider the possibility that they somehow got a sample of some clean riders' blood and contaminated the samples with EPO in order to make it look like the number of guilty riders was more than it actually was. This might be done to try to get the officials to take it easier on the riders... Saying to themselves something like, "you can't get a speeding ticket if everyone is driving over the speed limit." Obviously a plan (if it happened) that backfired.
What I am really sating is that the chain of evidence isn't as solid as if the sample was taken by an official tester. Nor would I trust the sample as far as the level of any substances in it... I would not trust it to have been handled appropriately.
However, the fact that V's blood/DNA was there at all, regardless of whether there were any performance enhancers in it or not is compelling.
