Bye Lance

[clarion]

Your opinion is void.

[Tewdric]

We can tell urea with comments like that...

[Toady]

I see the women's team are sponsored by Widdle

[Pingu]

Wondering a cyclist called James' sample is 'manquant'. It's a Jimmy riddle.





That'll be my US Postal gilet.

[Salvatore]

IF you look at the report, rather than just one annex, there are some surprising lies and damned lies stats

Which olympic/paralympic sport had the biggest percentage of abnormal tests  in 2011 (WADA figures)?

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Curling - 3.4% (but only 0.43 in 2009 & 0.63 in 2010. The report points out that weightlifting is usually top of the list

Which non-olympic/paralympic sport (but recognised by the IOC) had the biggest percentage of abnormal tests  in 2011(WADA)?

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Wushu (a chinese martial art) 3.39, followed by billiards (2.4%) and golf (2.08%)

Among other sports, it's not so surprising that it's

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Bodybuilding et Fitness (10.88%, down from a whopping 18.09%)

Cycling's figure for 2011 was 1.68%

AFLD produced a league table of the eight sports in which >400 tests were carried out in 2012 (AFLD, therefore only France)
In alphebetical order: Athletics, Basketball, Cycling, Football, Handball, Rugby, Swimming, Triathlon.
League table:

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Rugby        3.91%
Football     2.74%
Athletics    2.41%
Triathlon    2.31%
Basketball   2.31%
Cycling      1.82%
Handball     1.11%
Swimming     0.96%
And if you exclude cannabis positives, the order is

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Rugby
Athletics
Triathlon
Cycling
Swimming
Football
Basketball
Handball

The the sport with the highest percentage (43%) of its positives due to beta-blockers (NB AFLD figures) is
 

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Pétanque, followed by archery (14.3%) and motorsport (10%)

I also noticed that 1.3% of all failed tests in France between 2007 and 2012 were at UFOLEP events (mostly cycling ones)

http://www.senat.fr/rap/r12-782-1/r12-782-14.html#toc39

[citoyen]

IF you look at the report, rather than just one annex, there are some surprising stats

Great stuff, thanks, Salvatore.

I've still not been able to download the report myself.

[spesh]

Blijlevens has been sacked by Belkin, and O'Grady has been asked to leave the Australian Olympic Committee...

http://www.lequipe.fr/Cyclisme-sur-route/Actualites/Blijlevens-limoge/388341
http://www.lequipe.fr/Cyclisme-sur-route/Actualites/O-grady-chasse-de-l-aoc/388242

EDIT:
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/blijlevens-leaves-belkin-over-1998-tour-de-france-epo-evidence

Unipublic, the organiser of the Vuelta a Espana haven't wasted any time either:

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/vuelta-a-espana-organizer-ends-contract-with-olano

[Salvatore]

IF you look at the report, rather than just one annex, there are some surprising stats

Great stuff, thanks, Salvatore.

I've still not been able to download the report myself.

It's now available in html (rather than pdf).

Like all stats, open to all sorts of (mis)interpretation. But the main thrust of that bit was that all sports are touchés, even la course camarguaise (bullfighting as practised in France, where the bull doesn't get killed, 5 positives) and balle au tambourin (a sort of 5-a-side tennis played with a tambourine instead of a racquet, 4 cases).

[Cudzoziemiec]

balle au tambourin (a sort of 5-a-side tennis played with a tambourine instead of a racquet, 4 cases).

That sounds so eccentric I want to see it and I don't care if they're all doped!

I hope the Olympics goes to Paris soon and it gets included!

[Salvatore]

balle au tambourin (a sort of 5-a-side tennis played with a tambourine instead of a racquet, 4 cases).

That sounds so eccentric I want to see it and I don't care if they're all doped!

I hope the Olympics goes to Paris soon and it gets included!

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/56A1TFH9v-s&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/56A1TFH9v-s&rel=1</a>

[Cudzoziemiec]

Merci! It looks fun but far more conventional than I'd imagined - sort of like volleyball without a net but with tambourines. For some reason, I'd imagined five people in total on the court, playing as individuals all against each other. Which, of course, is not what five-a-side means.

[Salvatore]

I'm disappointed that the tambourines don't have bells on them.

[Peter]

IF you look at the report, rather than just one annex, there are some surprising stats

Great stuff, thanks, Salvatore.

I've still not been able to download the report myself.

It's now available in html (rather than pdf).

Like all stats, open to all sorts of (mis)interpretation. But the main thrust of that bit was that all sports are touchés, even la course camarguaise (bullfighting as practised in France, where the bull doesn't get killed, 5 positives) and balle au tambourin (a sort of 5-a-side tennis played with a tambourine instead of a racquet, 4 cases).

I bet if they tested the bulls that figure would be closer to 50% !

[Greenbank]

I'm disappointed that the tambourines don't have bells on them.

Even so, I'd quite like to condemn Lance to a lifetime of playing le jeu du balle au tambourin.

[citoyen]

IF you look at the report, rather than just one annex, there are some surprising lies and damned lies stats

Here's another interesting statistic:
"The ITF website says it conducted only 21 out-of-competition blood tests in professional tennis in 2011 compared to 3,314 carried out by cycling’s world governing UCI."
http://m.theglobeandmail.com/sports/more-sports/serbian-tennis-player-viktor-troicki-suspended-for-doping-violation/article13437398

[RJ]

IF you look at the report, rather than just one annex, there are some surprising lies and damned lies stats

Here's another interesting statistic:
"The ITF website says it conducted only 21 out-of-competition blood tests in professional tennis in 2011 compared to 3,314 carried out by cycling’s world governing UCI."
http://m.theglobeandmail.com/sports/more-sports/serbian-tennis-player-viktor-troicki-suspended-for-doping-violation/article13437398

If that's a representative annual rate of testing, a single positive would put tennis at the top of Salvatore's tables ...

(... or something like that)

[mattc]

Here's another interesting statistic:
"The ITF website says it conducted only 21 out-of-competition blood tests in professional tennis in 2011 compared to 3,314 carried out by cycling’s world governing UCI."

I'll add that to my cyclists-handy-facts-sheet for responding to idiots - if I ever get a Round Tuit.


<sub>Along with:
- yes, the law does say we can ride 2-a-abreast
- actually lots of motorists pay zero VED
- etc ...</sub>

[Cudzoziemiec]

I'm disappointed that the tambourines don't have bells on them.

Even so, I'd quite like to condemn Lance to a lifetime of playing le jeu du balle au tambourin.

As the ball or the tambourine? 

[clarion]

I had a fanciful moment imagining Jeu du balle au tambourine teams led by the fierce rival captains Mick Jagger and Davy Jones.

You could make a movie of it, if Dylan and the Lemon Pipers were prepared to do the soundtrack.

[Biff]

Zabel - OK, I did inhale.

http://www.velonation.com/News/ID/15107/Zabel-admits-to-lying-in-2007-about-extent-of-his-doping-now-confirms-eight-season-period-of-use.aspx

Bet Cav must be pissed off, given that Zabel was his mentor. He is currently sprint coach with the Katusha team. What's German for Job Centre?

[citoyen]

Do you really think Cav will be entirely surprised by this news?

[LEE]

But the main thrust of that bit was that all sports are touchés, even la course camarguaise (bullfighting as practised in France, where the bull doesn't get killed.

I've seen "Toro Piscine" in Nimes.  Fundamentally a very athletic young bull vs teenage kids wearing pyjamas and flip-flops.
The only chance of a bull getting injured is if it headbutts a bony teenage kid a bit too hard.
Anyone who gets in with the bull without being doped to the eye-balls (Stella would be my choice) needs to reconsider their actions.

[Jaded]

I'm disappointed that the tambourines don't have bells on them.

We'd have Morris Tennis if we were as silly as the French.

[Biff]

Laugh or cry?

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/cycling/2013/08/07/lance-armstrong-books-doping/2629895/

If it succeeds does anyone know who the Grimm's lawyer is? I mean, deceiving children.

[rogerzilla]

He's now settled (confidentially, out of court) with the Sunday Times, who were sued by him and made to pay £300,000 in 2006 after alleging doping.

Maybe he'll become a bum doing wheelies for food money.