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minn_stat · 07-26-2007, 04:55 PM

I think the solution to all the cheaters in cycling (is anyone at the Tour de France truly clean?) is to retain samples for athletes for, say, 10 years. Then as new testing methods arise, go back and do some retesting and see if the new tests pick up any cheaters. If so, they are retroactively DQ'ed/fined/shot/whatever.

May not work when all the realities are considered, but I sure like the concept.

They may often know how to mask samples given current testing techniques, but not knowing what testing methods may be developed 5 years down the road would have to give them a bit more pause before cheating.

creekster · 07-26-2007, 05:58 PM

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Originally Posted by minn_stat

I think the solution to all the cheaters in cycling (is anyone at the Tour de France truly clean?) is to retain samples for athletes for, say, 10 years. Then as new testing methods arise, go back and do some retesting and see if the new tests pick up any cheaters. If so, they are retroactively DQ'ed/fined/shot/whatever.

May not work when all the realities are considered, but I sure like the concept.

They may often know how to mask samples given current testing techniques, but not knowing what testing methods may be developed 5 years down the road would have to give them a bit more pause before cheating.

It might help. Hard to say. What is th eimpact of Bjarne Rijs' confession that he doped while winning the Tour in '96 and the Tour's subsequent expungement of his win from the record books? Did it help this year?

cougjunkie · 07-26-2007, 05:59 PM

if the cheaters were gone, who would be left? I think CG could have a winning team.

bigpiney · 07-26-2007, 06:22 PM

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Originally Posted by cougjunkie

if the cheaters were gone, who would be left? I think CG could have a winning team.

I'm in. I'll be the guy that carries the water bottles.

07-26-2007, 04:55 PM	#1
minn_stat Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Minnesota Posts: 283	Getting the cheaters out I think the solution to all the cheaters in cycling (is anyone at the Tour de France truly clean?) is to retain samples for athletes for, say, 10 years. Then as new testing methods arise, go back and do some retesting and see if the new tests pick up any cheaters. If so, they are retroactively DQ'ed/fined/shot/whatever. May not work when all the realities are considered, but I sure like the concept. They may often know how to mask samples given current testing techniques, but not knowing what testing methods may be developed 5 years down the road would have to give them a bit more pause before cheating.

07-26-2007, 05:59 PM	#3
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