Astana 2009 Tour De France blood transfusions?
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Don't know if this is more appropriate here or News, but according to Le Monde today, Astana were found to have had proscribed blood transfusion equipement in their possesion during this year's Tour. If true - incredible; but somehow unsurprising. My French isn't great so am looking foward to English media reporatge.
http://www.lemonde.fr/sport/article/2009/12/23/ast...
http://www.lemonde.fr/sport/article/2009/12/23/ast...
Yawn. The French are so desperate to discredit Lance that they will do absolutely anything... he is easily the most tested cyclist ever so there is no chance either Lance or Astana would do anything stupid as they know the whole of the cycling world is watching them closer than anyone else. the French just wont accept his, nor Alberto's abilities are natural and not drug enhanced.
if the french had a GC contender it would be almost understandable but this is just more bulls
t from Paris....
if the french had a GC contender it would be almost understandable but this is just more bulls
t from Paris....Here's the french article translated:
"The noose is tightening around Astana, the team that Alberto Contador won the Tour de France 2009 Lance Armstrong stole the third place for his return to competition. The Paris prosecutor's office told the World, Wednesday, December 23, the Kazakh training had committed a "crime" during the last Great Loop.
These are the first findings of the preliminary inquiry opened by the Deputy Prosecutor of Paris, Dominique Pérard. According to our information, infusion sets belonging to the training the winner of the Tour have been seized by police from the Central Office of the struggle against environmental damage and public health (Oclaesp).
However, a source close to the investigation, "the possession of infusion sets is itself a crime" under the Act of July 3, 2008 on the fight against trafficking in doping products. The infusion is indeed on the list of prohibited methods by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).
The preliminary inquiry, which involved several teams originally laid, now focuses solely on Astana, investigators have not found sufficient evidence for other courses. Moreover infusion kits, they have made other discoveries in the garbage and hotel rooms of the former team of Lance Armstrong. Thus they found syringes and needles of different sizes. The analysis, performed by the Paris laboratory toxicological expertise Toxlab, have so far only revealed the presence of "polypeptides".
September GENETIC PROFILES DRESSES
A source close to the investigation, further analysis will be conducted to verify that this growth hormone. The investigators also seized Oclaesp of "antihypertensive" in hotels or stay Astana for the Tour. These drugs are not prohibited per se, but doping experts said they are often used to treat high blood pressure associated with the practice of blood transfusions or taking EPO.
According to the same source, "seven genetic profiles of different people" were prepared from seizures made with the Astana team. But identification is only possible if the International Cycling Union (UCI) is the blood profiles of riders available to the French justice. However, relations between the UCI and the French authorities have been strained since the French Agency for the fight against doping (AFLD) has denounced a report in the preferential treatment allegedly received Astana in doping control during the last Tour de France.
The UCI has violently rejected any special treatment and said it would happen to the AFLD on Tour 2010. In their report submitted to the Paris prosecutor's office and which the world has learned investigators Oclaesp - which followed closely the Astana team during the 2009 Tour - confirms that the formation of Lance Armstrong and d "Alberto Contador has benefited from significant delays before they submit to unannounced inspections be expected. "Sufficient time to allow it to dilute the blood, for example," said a source close to the investigation."
"The noose is tightening around Astana, the team that Alberto Contador won the Tour de France 2009 Lance Armstrong stole the third place for his return to competition. The Paris prosecutor's office told the World, Wednesday, December 23, the Kazakh training had committed a "crime" during the last Great Loop.
These are the first findings of the preliminary inquiry opened by the Deputy Prosecutor of Paris, Dominique Pérard. According to our information, infusion sets belonging to the training the winner of the Tour have been seized by police from the Central Office of the struggle against environmental damage and public health (Oclaesp).
However, a source close to the investigation, "the possession of infusion sets is itself a crime" under the Act of July 3, 2008 on the fight against trafficking in doping products. The infusion is indeed on the list of prohibited methods by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).
The preliminary inquiry, which involved several teams originally laid, now focuses solely on Astana, investigators have not found sufficient evidence for other courses. Moreover infusion kits, they have made other discoveries in the garbage and hotel rooms of the former team of Lance Armstrong. Thus they found syringes and needles of different sizes. The analysis, performed by the Paris laboratory toxicological expertise Toxlab, have so far only revealed the presence of "polypeptides".
September GENETIC PROFILES DRESSES
A source close to the investigation, further analysis will be conducted to verify that this growth hormone. The investigators also seized Oclaesp of "antihypertensive" in hotels or stay Astana for the Tour. These drugs are not prohibited per se, but doping experts said they are often used to treat high blood pressure associated with the practice of blood transfusions or taking EPO.
According to the same source, "seven genetic profiles of different people" were prepared from seizures made with the Astana team. But identification is only possible if the International Cycling Union (UCI) is the blood profiles of riders available to the French justice. However, relations between the UCI and the French authorities have been strained since the French Agency for the fight against doping (AFLD) has denounced a report in the preferential treatment allegedly received Astana in doping control during the last Tour de France.
The UCI has violently rejected any special treatment and said it would happen to the AFLD on Tour 2010. In their report submitted to the Paris prosecutor's office and which the world has learned investigators Oclaesp - which followed closely the Astana team during the 2009 Tour - confirms that the formation of Lance Armstrong and d "Alberto Contador has benefited from significant delays before they submit to unannounced inspections be expected. "Sufficient time to allow it to dilute the blood, for example," said a source close to the investigation."
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