MetaFilter posts tagged with doping

Armstrong...and the rest all chose to be supermen rather than sportsmen.

ZaphodB — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 15:03:05 -0800

In light of Lance Armstrong's recent admissions and the failure of the Baseball Writers' Association of America to elect a single member to the Baseball Hall of Fame this year, the New Atlantis examines the era that created people like Armstrong and Barry Bonds and what this subsequent rejection says about us, them, and the sports themselves.

I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Ms. Poe.

entropone — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 08:24:48 -0800

After a few weeks of well-reported rumors that Lance Armstrong was going to confess, he publicly admitted to years of doping in the first of a two-part interview with Oprah Winfrey. The NYTimes called it "a confession without an explanation". Bicycling Magazing breaks down what he did and didn't say. And the ever well-versed Bonnie D. Ford said, "Beware the sudden conversion." Betsy Andreu, who had been hounded and harassed by Armstrong for years for reporting that he heard him admit to PED use to a doctor in 1996, was angry at Armstrong's avoiding the topic. Of course, his reticence could be due to significant legal problems surrounding confession, perjury, and a federal whistleblower lawsuit against him. What do the fans say? Twitter was blazing. Part I can be seen on Youtube links. Part II airs tonight at 9PM EST on the OWN, available streaming on the internet.

The Dirty Details of the Lance Armstrong Conspiracy

thomsplace — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 15:18:25 -0800

The USADA published its "Reasoned Decision" in the case against Lance Armstrong. It reads, as The Inner Ring said, like "a crime novel" and has a cast of the who's who of American cycling: Hincapie, Zabriski, Andreu, Vande Velde, Hamilton (YT), Landis, Swart, Barry, Leipheimer, Vaughters, Danielson. 200+ pages. It's all there.

Lance Armstrong ends his fight against the USADA

Bluecoat93 — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 20:29:58 -0800

"There comes a point in every man's life when he has to say, "Enough is enough." For me, that time is now." Lance Armstrong ends his fight against the US Anti-Doping Agency. This will most likely lead to a lifetime ban from competitive sports and possibly the loss of his 7 Tour de France victories.

Melky Cabrera Phony Website

mr_crash_davis — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 11:05:14 -0800

"Facing a 50-game suspension for doping, San Francisco Giants outfielder Melky Cabrera created a phony website and a fake product in an attempt to dodge the ban by proving he inadvertently ingested a banned substance, according to a report."

Lance Armstrong: Victim?

fixedgear — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 11:39:10 -0800

Lance Armstrong: Victim? The embattled cyclist says USADA is out to get him—using powers that it really shouldn’t have. Brian Alexander says he’s right.

Pitcher’s Treatment Draws Scrutiny

reenum — Thu, 12 May 2011 09:53:33 -0800

Bartolo Colon, now of the New York Yankees, underwent a controversial stem-cell treatment in the Dominican Republic to regain his old form.

The Gospel According to Floyd

JeffL — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 07:28:36 -0800

The Gospel According to Floyd

Alberto Contador Positive

Chuckles — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 01:54:15 -0800

Three time Tour de France champion Alberto Contador has tested positive for clenbuterol. I know what you're thinking... Surprise surprise!! Well, this one isn't so straight forward. The amount, 50 pico grams per millilitre, is exceedingly small. And the substance, not particularly performance enhancing for a cyclist during a grand tour, is a commonly found contaminant in meat products. Several athletes have tested positive resulting in mixed sanctions. Had the drug been in another category under WADA rules, the tiny amount detected would not have been considered a positive. The current theories are 1) Food contamination during the Tour or 2) Transfused contaminated blood. Such contamination being due to taking the drug for weight loss, or just as easily due to eating contaminated food. Either way, if his blood got contaminated, and was then stored, the accident could happen. In any case cycling has once again delivered the ambiguity which makes it a favourite sport for the cynical.

Who knew that chess has drug testing

caddis — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 12:19:35 -0800

The Great Chess Doping Scandal Grandmaster Vassily Ivanchuk refused to submit a urine sample for a drug test at the Chess Olympiad in Dresden and is now considered guilty of doping. The world of chess is outraged that he could face a two-year ban... [He] has been a grandmaster for the past 20 years and is currently ranked third in the world. The only reason there are doping tests in chess in the first place is that the World Chess Federation (FIDE) has been trying, since the late 1990s, to make chess an Olympic discipline. And anyone wishing to be part of the Olympics must submit to the rules of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

Landis Guilty

yhbc — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:38:34 -0800

Say It Ain't So, Floyd. Landis found guilty of doping, must surrender 2006 Tour de France title. previously on MeFi: the original thread about his apparently heroic stage comeback, and the first thread about the doping

Luke Bream, Tour Champion

Chuckles — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 09:02:45 -0800

~~Vinokourov~~. ~~Rasmussen~~. Luke Bream?
Looks like he'll make it! [via]

"Addicted to speed, I mean"

ardgedee — Sun, 27 May 2007 05:47:13 -0800

Bjarne Riis, current coach of premier cycling squad Team CSC, used drugs to win the Tour in 1996. His protege, Ivan Basso, was suspended from Team CSC before last year's Tour for suspicion of doping. Team Discovery hired Basso to fill Lance Armstrong's seat as captain, but Basso quit shortly before he had a chance to win his second consecutive Giro d'Italia, and is out for the season, if not permanently. The conclusion of Floyd Landis's appeals to reinstate his 2006 Tour victory will wait until some time after this year's Tour de France. Jan Ullrich capped a good but unsatisfying career by retiring early and under a cloud. Several of Ullrich's former Deutch Telekom/T-Mobile teammates, including Erik Zabel, admitted to doping, and the team masseur claims to have personally administered EPO to Ullrich. Ullrich, Basso, numerous other leading riders, and the majority of some team rosters continue to be under suspicion as the Operación Puerto EPO lab investigation grinds onward. It might be the best time ever to market a competition road bike called the Addict. (previously, previously, oh-so-very previously, )

Floyd Landis' Defense Online

fixedgear — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 15:20:37 -0800

Floyd Landis' Defense Onilne. Two pdfs of his defense, one zip file with a dozen documents supporting his claim.

Tour winner disgraced?

beagle — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 07:34:56 -0800

Landis tests positive for doping.

"Doping Scandal Rocks Tour"

dizzycow — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 06:48:27 -0800

Big news in the cycling world. Favorites Basso, Ullrich out of the Tour de France. Should make for an interesting July.

Back to the Future

Elpoca — Tue, 23 Aug 2005 20:14:07 -0800

Lance Armstrong has won the 1999 Tour de France !

William Perry's scrawny ass

matteo — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 14:08:10 -0800

Supersized in the NFL Analyzing data from the 2003-2004 season, researchers say "more than a quarter of NFL players had a body mass index that qualified them as class 2 obesity" -- equivalent to a 6-foot man weighing between 260 and 300 pounds. Even those players weren't the biggest ones: the study counted more than 60 players -- 3 percent -- with body mass indexes placing them into class 3 obesity, with individual weights approaching 400 pounds. "I don't know what's going on in the minds of coaches", said lead researcher Dr. Joyce Harp, an assistant professor of nutrition and medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Players' growing girth "is a major concern," said Dr. Arthur Roberts, a former NFL quarterback and retired heart surgeon (.pdf file) whose Living Heart Foundation works with the players' union to evaluate heart-related health risks faced by current and retired players. More inside.

One of the most important sports articles ever written

mathowie — Mon, 27 Oct 2003 12:22:53 -0800

Over the past few years, doping in sports has grown into an arms race of biology, chemistry, and technology as atheletes attempt to push their limits and escape detection. While it's hard to estimate how widespread the problem is or how much it actually improves one's performance, one amateur athelete for Outside Magazine decided to test the latest on himself as he spent 8 months training for an ultramarathon cycling event. The article also notes pro-cheating sites filled with atheletes trading stories of their own programs. Disturbing stuff, when you think of all the records being broken in sports these days. As Rafe says, this might be one of the most important sports articles ever written. note: it's a long article, but worth it.

"the biggest anti-doping program in Olympic history."

tiaka — Wed, 06 Sep 2000 08:30:44 -0800

"the biggest anti-doping program in Olympic history." ``I'm very pleased,'' International Olympic Committee president Juan Antonio Samaranch said of the doping withdrawals. ``I'm very happy. This is very good news. It shows the new system for detecting doping substances will work very well. ... The objective is to have clean games."

Detecting doping? With what? Like a radar, err.. dopler?