It's delightful that 39 posts in and no-one has mentioned football because there's no money in that sport to make cheating worthwhile.
Also the drug testing procedures in place are very stringent, thanks to the FA. They have invested heavily in biological profiles and it is no longer the case that pissing into a jar constitutes 80% of drug tests.
Plus of course, speed and stamina would be of no assistance to a football team where it's all down to spirit, hard work and a brilliant coaching system.
Operacion Puerto was not hampered by government interference in Spain and it, at no point, became clear that the dominance of Barcelona in club football and Spain internationally was a direct result of doping.
Leicester City were amazing and this had nothing to do with finding a way to emulate the effects of EPO in a legal but morally dubious way.
Southampton went for 56th in the league to 4th in no time, while selling all their best players, because of their excellent academy.
Tottenham only engaged in blood spinning when the player was injured.
The leap in average distances covered by teams managed by certain managers is entirely coincidental.
When certain world famous footballers are able to change their physique in the space of a summer holiday it is down to improved diet.
Football does not have a doping problem.

Oh, and Mo Farrah races clean.

(If I were you I wouldn't wait for MPs, I'd just troll back through the United thread. All the information re TUEs and the new ways to cheat in cycling was on there about 4 years ago.)

Who else thinks Jessica Ennis was entirely clean? the golden girl, lets not forget when Wiggans won his TDF and gold medals he was the golden boy. If they out Wiggens and people believe it, why is it so hard to think Ennis was at it as well?, is it because the media haven't said so?

If you just do gym work and protein shakes you'll have a leaner physique, 6 pack yes but not the muscles these rugby stars are parading around with, some of them don't have the natural frame to be able to produce the muscle they have, so they need to be pumping themselves up somehow.

SontaranStratagem was just talking about Jonah Lomu last night a sad example of what can happen on the gear,though at the time all of the NZ Rugby squad were on the juice and were taking ridiculous amounts of Creatine Monohydrate which I took years ago.
Some of them were taking 40 times the recommended dose so whoever was in charge of this was completely clueless as there's no additional benefits beyond about 5-10g per day once it's in your system,all it does is raises your creatinine level which is deadly to your kidneys.
Lomu suffered Nephrotic kidney disease as did his team mate Joeli Vidri which affects 3 in 100,000 and it's thought the silly Creatine levels and PED's were the cause.

Wiggins hasnt broken the rules, didnt need to announce to all his competitors how flawed the rules were, and doesnt need to apologise or backtrack now imo.

The stupidity in drug controvercies is nearly always down to event organisers imposing rules that they cant police.

Rule 7b) You absolutely cant take performance enhancing drugs unless you fill out this form that says you have asthma. Yeah that'll cover it.

@1st time poster, I would guess it's because he and Sky would want his say to be aired to a wider audience, Sky's audience is limited considering it's subscription based.

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I find it so sad that accusations can be made, where people can be accused of things they have never done which are then regarded as facts. I strongly refute the claim that any drug was used without medical need. I hope to have my say in the next few days & put my side across.

well I bought sky to for the vice channel

job done

wiggans should sue morgan, and the parliamentary committee for millions

Or else ban the drug for all competitors

you see the grey area is in allowing asthma sufferers to use this drug and compete
When that happens the question arises , just how much of an asthma sufferer are you
Well no one knows that, so the parliamentary committee and Morgan should shut up

Only having no exemptions will stop a chancer seeing an opportunity to get an edge.

I doubt if these accusations were aimed at a Russian team or an American team there would be quite so many willing to give the benefit of the doubt .

I think you will find there are no Russian based teams in the Grand Tours.

Will he have to pay back His hard Earned Advertising Money ??

I finds it very offensive that people can just make unsubstantiated claims on here about other athletes. Wiggins clearly has plenty of questions to answer.  Paula Radcliffe, however,  has been an asthma sufferer since her early teens. You can argue over whether this has given her an advantage but she undoubtedly has done nothing wrong. Jessica Ennis has certainly done nothing wrong and there is absolutely nothing in her history to suggest otherwise.

I've no idea about Radcliffe and asthma but there is little doubt she was a transfuser.  Certainly her stored blood samples were highly indicative of autologous transfusions according to independent experts

asparagus that's true about Paula though it just so happens that the Asthma drugs that were used come with huge performance enhancing benefits that's why they are illegal.
From what we're hearing now there are many Asthma meds which will deal with the condition with less performance benefits but UK Athletics/Cycling/Team Sky chose the ones with big benefits on purpose to abuse the TUE system that explains Radcliffe's impossible Marathon runs.

It's harsh to single out people really which we've done because everyone who is anyone is on something in one way or another or else they couldn't compete.
To think anyone has won things clean and beat the dopers clean is naive and a near impossibility.
We have these problems because the testing isn't fit for purpose and they don't want to catch anyone Elite anyway,the results go their federation and dealt with from there (bung is paid for result to disappear or if you're expendable you're thrown under the bus).
The most high profile person (Armstrong) was tested around 600 times and was on everything you could imagine and was only caught because he was grassed up.
Us British abuse the TUE system because it sounds more acceptable than the words Steroids or EPO,notice the only tests Linford Christie PUBLICLY failed was when he was an old man finished.
Can anybody seriously say that they thought Linford was clean?
Look at the guy when he was 25 in the peak of Testosterone (naturally) then look at him later you'll get your answer it's obvious to anyone with eyesight.

Lots of athletes use Beta Blockers (in the form of blood pressure meds) they are the most common masking agents for Steroids and many are on the banned lists.

Are we saying that people who have asthma , like Paula Radclife, are not allowed to win races , or gold medals or set world records ?
If so why are they competing?

hands up

I take drugs , then read the racing post