I’ve been thinking a lot about doping of late. Being competitive across the pond. What it takes. What it means. How it got this way. And why it will probably stay this way. My own current physical condition and how I a few handfuls of blue and yellow purple [...]

Got this www.pbs.org/…society_on_steroids
from Lofty Goat. This illustrates how damaging the public’s general lack of reflective thought can be, and how this has allowed not only the corruption of our National baby (baseball) but of matters far more reaching.
You can also check out a video from the link above.
Expert here:
In our drugged state, [...]

I’m not sure how many French based events Pennsylvania’s favorite Dirty Birdie had penciled in on his calendar for ‘08, but it looks like he won’t be toeing the start line anywhere they serve Brie.
American Floyd Landis, stripped of his 2006 Tour de France title for doping, was on Wednesday banned from all competitions in [...]

The hits just keep coming.
Italian doctor given life-time suspension
Italy’s Olympic committee has handed down a life-time ban to Carlo Santuccione, the doctor at the center of the “Oil for Drugs” investigation that has involved several high-profile athletes, including Giro d’Italia winner Danilo Di Luca.
A disciplinary panel of Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) on Monday ruled that [...]

From: John the Lawyer
Subject: Mitchell Drops the Bomb on Baseball
May come as a huge surprise, but it’s not just cycling that has a drug problem! No, really, it’s true.
George Mitchell dropped the bomb on major league baseball today in a report to the Commish that, for more than a decade, there has been [...]

More fodder for Jan Ullrich’s upcoming and much anticipated tell-all memoir:
Former German cycling star Jan Ullrich was consulting Eufemiano Fuentes, the Spanish doctor whose blood-doping network was exposed last year, as early as 2003, according to reports in the German press.
Monday’s edition of the German weekly magazine Focus includes a report alleging that German prosecutors [...]

Old news already, but what the hell, I’ll blog it anyway – Vino folds like a lawn chair and cries like a twelve year old girl.
I take that back. It’s not really fair to lawn furniture and young ladies to group them in with the AssBag of Kazakhstan.
From: Humpty
Subject: File this under ” [...]

I read this the other day. Nothing terribly new, but some folks out there just fell off the apple cart and never heard word one about what really goes on. This pretty much lays it out in plain English for ya. And yeah, you might want to grab a cold beer [...]

Lovedawg mentioned this link in an earlier post, but damn. In case you missed it, the Vuelta is swinging yard on this one:
Grand tours seek a dope-free ‘promised land’
When the director of the Vuelta a España, Victor Cordero, unveiled the route of next year’s race at a ceremony in Madrid on Wednesday, he said [...]

Vino retired after receiving a 1 yr. ban by his federation. Read about it here.
Wonder if this played into the decision? Research it here.
Didn’t seem to for these guys
Hope things can change for this.
But this guy thinks you can’t do without.

Birth defects for your kids – Physical deformities, mental handicaps
Emotional problems – Severe depression and suicide
Miscarriage and Still birth rates 32X higher
Steroid Nation Post on German Research 
Let’s hope Tyler and Haven don’t have kids.

I got a couple of emails about faces yesterday.
Go figure.
From: fritzaholic
Subject: Tammy Thomas
I know, this chick is old news, but she’s in court now, I ran into this article b/c the judge assigned to her case is the same SF judge assigned to Barroid Bonds.
Look at this picture.
I thought the article was [...]

Oh hell.
T-Mobile ends sponsorship; teams to continue with new name
The T-Mobile cycling program has lost its title sponsor, but the American director of the men’s and women’s teams said Tuesday that both will continue to operate with private support.
…”We arrived at this decision to separate our brand from further exposure from doping in sport [...]

No shit.
German cyclist Patrik Sinkewitz, who was recently handed a one-year suspension for a failed drugs test, admitted on Saturday that he used doping products in the build up to the 2000 World Championships.
The 27-year-old, sacked by Team T-Mobile in July after abnormal levels of testosterone were found in his blood, says he doped while [...]

Does this mean the Big Three sports in this country (baseball, basketball & football) are going to finally get serious about drug use?
Somehow, I doubt it.
White House deputy “drug czar” Scott Burns blasted U.S. sports leagues Tuesday for failing to adopt World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) standards and indicated their leaders were enablers for dope cheats.
Burns, [...]

Oh, this is too much. Really.
Björn Leukemans tested positive for testosterone in an out-of-competition doping control shortly before the World Championships in September. Team Predictor-Lotto immediately suspended him pending the results of the B-sample.
…According to HLN.be, his urine showed a ratio of 6 to 1 for testosterone/epitestosterone. The normal ratio is 4 to 1.
Source: [...]

Oh hell…
Former Cofidis rider Cristian Moreni has been banned for two years for a failed doping test during this year’s Tour de France, the Italian Cycling Federation (FCI) announced on Thursday.
The 35-year-old former Italian champion tested positive for testosterone during the 11th stage of a drug-tainted 2007 Tour that saw pre-race favorite Alexander Vinokourov of [...]

I’d say I was surprised… but I’d be lying to you if I did.
Rudy Pevenage has indicated that Jan Ullrich may have been using doping products when he won the Tour de France in 1997. Focus magazine reported Monday that in a secretly-taped conversation between ex-Team Telekom soigneur Jef d’Hont and Ullrich mentor Pevenage, the [...]

Go to this Link and read. A NY Times article; Title:
A Harvest of Trash and Turmoil for an Agent Fighting Steroids
You think this 6′6″ Bad Bad Leroy Brown is gonna pay a visit to Lance? Horner? Leipheimer?
Just wondering.

I can’t really say I’m much surprised, but still… Damn.
Barry Bonds, baseball’s home run king, was indicted for perjury and obstruction of justice Thursday and could face prison instead of the Hall of Fame for telling a federal grand jury he did not knowingly use performance-enhancing drugs.
The indictment, culminating a four-year investigation into [...]