Quoted message said:MagillaGorilla said:http://www.velonews.com/news/fea/13780.0.htmlhttp://www.agencyforcyclingethics.com
This is the latest intelligence report from Magilla 007...
ACE gets 100% of its revenue from cycling teams. Therefore, it has a
financial conflict of interest because a positive test might cause the
team's sponsor to want to pull out of the sport. At the very least it
would cause the sponsor to reconsier its financial involvement. But a
negative test, on the other hand, would make a sponsor happy and keep
the test money flowing.
So ACE has a built-in financial conflict of interst to cover up positive
test results and to instead make teams, sponsors, and riders look like
angels. As of this date, I am aware of no athlete - ZERO - who has
tested positive through ACE. No rider has been suspended by the UCI
because of an ACE positive. And I bet this will continue until nuclear
fusion stops on the sun, which covers at least through the London
Olympics in 2012.
dumbass,
that site implies that the ACE is employed by sponsors to ensure that
the team it sponsors will not ne involved in a doping scandal.
so i imagine that if the ACE caught a doper it would intervene before
it became an official doping violation -- which is probably what
happened to hontchar.
but the bigger question is why would a sponsor want to even be
involved in a sport where there was a need for a service like this ?
This system has less protections than WADA should a rider contest the
findings of the lab. Apparently, Hontchar did not contest the finding.
So I don't understand the logic in the system whereby all these riders
contest the findings through a WADA-positive but somehow would be
expected to not do the same with an ACE Hardware positive (unless of
course a positive test would be covered up).
This ACE Hardware system has yet to be fully vetted in this respect.
All this ACE system thing does is keep the doping case out of any
official forum (read public forum) and denies due process to any rider
who signs with a team that has it. That's hardly something to get
excited about and is far WORSE than the current WADA system in terms of
due process.
So it's a PR buffer for sponsors - an ACE bandage of sorts.
And what will the public think when their favorite rider just suddenly
stops riding and gets a job delivering pizza? The reality is if a guy
like Lance ever tested positive unde the ACE System (although the
thought of Postal ever joing such a thing is hilarious to begin with),
the lab tech would be found floating face down in the river the next day.
Also, any rider fired through this ACE system will have their doping
positive considered confidential and will be free to get another job
with another team. If you are a good enough dope rider like DiLusional
or Basshole, numerous teams without ACE Bandage protection will offer
you a contract which we see time after time. Look no further than
Millar, Tylenol, Virenque. Pestachio, Zabel....these guys aren't
unemployable in the European peloton by any stretch.
So unless all the Pro Tour teams agree to have ACE Hardware protection,
all it's going to do is make Tom Danielson get 17th on GC in the Tour.
Instead of getting axed by doping cases, these sponsors and teams will
suffer a far worse fate: chronic losing.
I'll be you $5,000 Astana will NEVER EVER join the ACE Hardware system.
Why? Because they don't want 40% of their Tour team showing up on the
radar at the end of June.
The only teams that will subject themselves to this gay form of
self-policing are teams that don't matter in any race anyway.
Because when all is said and done, if you want to win the Tour, you
better go make a doctor's appointment with Schumi in March.
Magilla
