Monthly Archives: February 2017

24 Hour Update

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There is only a couple hours left in the 24 Hour of Old Pueblo.   I’ve been following the results on and off.  Vincent, Jed and Company had some physical issues, so they decided health was more important than playing in the desert.

Seems like Lance’s team is slowing moving up to my predicted 2nd place finish in their 4 man team category.   They are 4 minutes back of 2nd now, but there is a team of singlespeed guys beating them.  They don’t have a chance to win.

The “Nine Inch Males” team of Kalan Beisel, Kyle Trudeau and friends is smearing everyone.  I know Kalan and rode with Kyle a couple years ago at the race.  They are both hauling ass and aren’t going to lose their two lap lead. (It is about an hour a lap.)

I guess it has been pretty wet there.  And not that warm.  Sounds miserable, but I still wish I was there, either riding or just enjoying.  Next year for sure.

Okay, the live results are here still.  

Jed and Vincent before the start. Jed is in the hospital currently.

The official race starter.

 

 

WADA Puerto Blood Bag Issues

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I saw an article last week about WADA’s legal issue, thus worry, with the blood bags it got from Operation Puerto.   The World Anti-Doping Agency got the blood bags from the Spanish courts back in July of 2015.  Since then they have sat on the information they have.

And they have the names of supposedly 36 athletes.  Not all cyclists, but all guys that were planning on cheating their respective sports.

I don’t get it.  They can’t suspend the athletes because the time has run out.  So, the least they can do is embarrass the shit out of them, showing them all of being “potential cheaters”.  And I say potential because, I’d assume, that many of these guys have never tested positive for doping.  And many are probably retired.

I applaud retesting blood and urine samples as the technology gets better.  They did it at both the Olympics recently.  I think it is just another way to keep athletes considering the risk/rewards from doping.  When they think that they might be outed years after they cheat, that might stop them from starting initially.  I don’t know.

But this “legal” question is weird.  Just give the names to the respective countries cycling federations and let their legal departments deal with them.  I’m sure there is a country to where it isn’t illegal.  Then they can release all the names.  Let the dick athletes sue them.  I doubt they will.    I really don’t know, but there seems that there should be a way to do this.

I’m not sure why we are having so many issue with standing up for the “legal rights” of these athletes that cheated over 10 years ago.  We are rewarding them by having a screwed up system that can’t get control of the evidence until the statute of limitations has expired.  Seems backwards for some reason.