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Title: Rob Hayles cleared
Post by: gonzo on 11 April, 2008, 05:38:45 pm

Linnky (http://www.britishcycling.org.uk/web/site/BC/gbr/News2008/20080411_rob_hayles_regains_license.asp)

Title: Re: Rob Hayles cleared
Post by: Nick H. on 11 April, 2008, 05:47:00 pm

Thank heavens for that. We can get back to believing that our British track stars are clean.  :D Can't wait for the Olympics.

Title: Re: Rob Hayles cleared
Post by: alan on 11 April, 2008, 06:02:42 pm

An excellent result

Title: Re: Rob Hayles cleared
Post by: Aidan on 11 April, 2008, 06:05:03 pm

Good one, reassuring that he's put himself forward for further screening as well.

Title: Re: Rob Hayles cleared
Post by: Seineseeker on 11 April, 2008, 07:54:05 pm

Cleared? But he wasn't guilty was he? (David Martin where are you).

You stop taking the stuff and your haemo soon goes down again. That is if you were taking any stuff, I'm not saying he was.

I think the track stars are for the most part and ASFAIK clean, track cycling is science and not pharmacology is it not, and we Brits are good at science aren't we?

Title: Re: Rob Hayles cleared
Post by: clifftaylor on 11 April, 2008, 08:04:02 pm

Indeed - nobody has suggested he was guilty of anything.

Title: Re: Rob Hayles cleared
Post by: David Martin on 11 April, 2008, 09:48:45 pm

Quote from: Seineseeker on 11 April, 2008, 07:54:05 pm

Cleared? But he wasn't guilty was he? (David Martin where are you).

You stop taking the stuff and your haemo soon goes down again. That is if you were taking any stuff, I'm not saying he was.

I think the track stars are for the most part and ASFAIK clean, track cycling is science and not pharmacology is it not, and we Brits are good at science aren't we?

It takes more than a few days if you are on EPO. Fluctuations in Haemocrit can be as much as 5 percentage points in a day (and I refuse to believe they can measure accurately to 0.1% anyway).

..d

Title: Re: Rob Hayles cleared
Post by: clarion on 18 April, 2008, 09:54:47 am

Cleared?  He was removed from competition, as they say, 'for the rider's safety', and handed his licence back after the fourteen day exclusion was completed.

Title: Re: Rob Hayles cleared
Post by: David Martin on 18 April, 2008, 11:59:51 am

Quote from: clarion on 18 April, 2008, 09:54:47 am

Cleared?  He was removed from competition, as they say, 'for the rider's safety', and handed his licence back after the fourteen day exclusion was completed.

Cleared to race again. He is currently working with BC to prepare a case for a different haematocrit or exemption level based on biological passport type testing.

..d

Title: Re: Rob Hayles cleared
Post by: Dinamo on 02 July, 2008, 10:44:14 am

And now National Road Race Champion - well done Rob.

BBC SPORT | Olympics | Cycling | Hayles snatches road race title (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics/cycling/7480424.stm)