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  1. http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news/2007/dec07/dec29news

    GPS tracking for athletes?
    Two Swedish Olympic track and field champions, Carolina Klüft,
    heptathlon, and Stefan Holm, high jump, have come out in support of
    the idea of having athletes implanted with GPS chips to more easily
    track their whereabouts for antidoping controls.

    "I have suggested earlier that you could operate a data chip under the
    skin on athletes on a certain level.

    More there.

    I can't believe that this is even being vaguely seriously discussed.
    This isn't done to criminals, or anyone else. The criminals are given
    a bracelet, by court order, and that's been contorversial. These folks
    just want to shoot a tracking device into riders bodies. How about a
    transmitter and miniature camera too? Maybe a small bomb so that if
    they are found doing, or going anywhere not APPROVED it could just be
    detonated, therefore solving the problem?

    The KGB, the SD, Stasi, and others could've really learned something
    on people control from cycling folks.
    Have we reached the "Theater of the Absurd" yet? I'd bet Magilla and
    the nutcases at Stolen Undeground are all in favor. Now it's time for
    Amit to call me a chamois sniffer for objecting to this.
    Anyone else get e-mails from the SU folks recently?
    Bill C

  2. Bill C said:

    http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php

    Quoted message said:

    Now it's time for
    Amit to call me a chamois sniffer for objecting to this.

    dumbass,

    i would call someone a chamois sniffer when they don't want to hold
    the athletes accountable.

    this is a stupid idea because it's just not a good way of catching
    dopers - neither is in competition testing apparently.

  3. <[email hidden]> wrote...

    Quoted message said:


    dumbass,

    i would call someone a chamois sniffer when they don't want to hold
    the athletes accountable.

    this is a stupid idea because it's just not a good way of catching
    dopers - neither is in competition testing apparently.

    1984

    --
    JF

    "Bad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contented with
    the life he is living, with the thoughts he is thinking, with the deeds he
    is doing, when there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some
    great desire to do something larger, which he knows that he was meant and
    made to do because he is still, in spite of all, the child of God. "
    - Phillip Brooks

  4. Jim F said:

    <[email hidden]> wrote...

    Quoted message said:

    dumbass,

    Quoted message said:

    i would call someone a chamois sniffer when they don't want to hold
    the athletes accountable.

    Quoted message said:

    this is a stupid idea because it's just not a good way of catching
    dopers - neither is in competition testing apparently.

    1984

    --
    JF

    "Bad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contented with
    the life he is living, with the thoughts he is thinking, with the deeds he
    is doing, when there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some
    great desire to do something larger, which he knows that he was meant and
    made to do because he is still, in spite of all, the child of God. "
    - Phillip Brooks

    The pushers could always go to the rider's house. What good is the
    tracking device then? And the dog could be trained not to bark.

    Andre

  5. On Dec 28, 7:54 pm, "[email hidden]" <[email hidden]>

    Quoted message said:

    On Dec 28, 8:45 pm, Bill C <[email hidden]> wrote:

    Quoted message said:

    i would call someone a chamois sniffer when they don't want to hold
    the athletes accountable.

    The athletes are so accountable that they have attained the highest
    order of accountability, "Totally Accountable for Everything" (AKA
    "Scapegoat"😉.

    Cops raiding rider hotels is "Theatre of the Absurd". IOW, we've been
    there for a long, long time.

    Quoted message said:

    this is a stupid idea because it's just not a good way of catching
    dopers - neither is in competition testing apparently.

    Yes, they made some very stupid rules. "Stupid" because the governing
    bodies can't enforce them effectively (or gracefully) in-house.

    Even for drugs, you gotta look at NASCAR and wonder if greasy fried
    chicken and Pabst Blue Ribbon by the case in cans isn't brain food?
    (maybe it's the green beans with bacon fat?)

    Watch, they're even gonna clean up the problem with the locally hired
    goons doing infield security after the Casey Kahne incident.

    There's an organization that knows how to sell out to corporate
    sponsors. Corporate sponsors... ah, visions of Smith's Cove, Grand
    Cayman. The waves lapping oh so gently, money coming in to stay for a
    nice, relaxing vay-kay and going back to the real world, all refreshed
    and ready to spend!

    http://www.rense.com/general28/money.htm

    I don't know, I read stuff like that and my sense of what's up kinda
    changes with regard to throwing athletes out of their sports for
    taking drugs (any drugs, including disco drugs or smoking dope).

    Well, that's why they want us all to keep busy praying and hating the
    homosexuals and (in the approximate words of George Will) "standing
    for something"-- and so forth, right? --D-y

  6. ...it's a Trojan Horse...

    Quoted message said:

    GPS tracking for athletes?
    Two Swedish Olympic track and field champions, Carolina Klüft,


    heptathlon,

    Quoted message said:

    and Stefan Holm, high jump, have come out in support
    of the idea of having athletes implanted with GPS chips
    to more easily track their whereabouts for antidoping controls.

    ...the "chip" is THE dope!...

    Best Regards - Mike Baldwin

  7. (Michael Baldwin) said:

    ..it's a Trojan Horse...

    Quoted message said:

    GPS tracking for athletes?
    Two Swedish Olympic track and field champions, Carolina Klüft,


    heptathlon,

    Quoted message said:

    and Stefan Holm, high jump, have come out in support
    of the idea of having athletes implanted with GPS chips
    to more easily track their whereabouts for antidoping controls.

    ..the "chip" is THE dope!...

    Best Regards - Mike Baldwin

    When I had my shoulder done the surgeon plugged a line into the joint
    connected to a spring loaded pump that pumped anasthetic into the
    joint. I can't see any reason that one of those pumping "PotBelge"
    couldn't be hooked up to feed from a bidon, or jersey pocket.
    Bill C

  8. In article
    <[email hidden]>,

    Bill C said:
    (Michael Baldwin) said:

    ..it's a Trojan Horse...

    Quoted message said:

    GPS tracking for athletes?
    Two Swedish Olympic track and field champions, Carolina Klüft,


    heptathlon,

    Quoted message said:

    and Stefan Holm, high jump, have come out in support
    of the idea of having athletes implanted with GPS chips
    to more easily track their whereabouts for antidoping controls.

    ..the "chip" is THE dope!...

    Best Regards - Mike Baldwin

    When I had my shoulder done the surgeon plugged a line into the joint
    connected to a spring loaded pump that pumped anasthetic into the
    joint. I can't see any reason that one of those pumping "PotBelge"
    couldn't be hooked up to feed from a bidon, or jersey pocket.
    Bill C

    I look forward to the day when cyclesport will let technology reign, and
    a doctor riding in the team car will have two-way radio systems on the
    rider: heart rate and other vitals coming in to him, and then he uses
    the radio to dole out shots of adrenaline, pot belge, or IV Gatorade
    (hey, why not?) via remote controlled pumps.

    --
    Ryan Cousineau [email hidden] http://www.wiredcola.com/
    "My scenarios may give the impression I could be an excellent crook.
    Not true - I am a talented lawyer." - Sandy in rec.bicycles.racing

  9. Ryan Cousineau said:


    I look forward to the day when cyclesport will let technology reign, and
    a doctor riding in the team car will have two-way radio systems on the
    rider: heart rate and other vitals coming in to him, and then he uses
    the radio to dole out shots of adrenaline, pot belge, or IV Gatorade
    (hey, why not?) via remote controlled pumps.

    --
    Ryan Cousineau [email hidden]://www.wiredcola.com/
    "My scenarios may give the impression I could be an excellent crook.  
    Not true - I am a talented lawyer." - Sandy in rec.bicycles.racing- Hide quoted text -

    - Show quoted text -

    Then Wada could morph into chasing elctronic cheats, searching cars
    for jammers, and scanners, maybe even gear to take over someone elses
    controls and take out the leader. Could they get their rider right to
    the chemical edge, but not over it?
    Think I'll stick to the retro-grouch thing though.
    Bill C

  10. Ryan Cousineau said:

    I look forward to the day when cyclesport will let technology reign, and a
    doctor riding in the team car will have two-way radio systems on the
    rider: heart rate and other vitals coming in to him, and then he uses the
    radio to dole out shots of adrenaline, pot belge, or IV Gatorade (hey, why
    not?) via remote controlled pumps.

    Could get interesting if the teams get their lines crossed.

  11. "Bill C" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:

    When I had my shoulder done the surgeon plugged a line into the joint
    connected to a spring loaded pump that pumped anasthetic into the
    joint. I can't see any reason that one of those pumping "PotBelge"
    couldn't be hooked up to feed from a bidon, or jersey pocket.

    I could build such a thing the size of a quarter that could be implanted
    under the skin and be almost invisible. If you were to use about a half
    dozen different extremely powerful steroids the dosage could be so small
    that it couldn't be detected and if you did it right it would jazz up your
    hormone system so much that they'd think it was a freak natural.

  12. Bill C said:

    Think I'll stick to the retro-grouch thing though.

    you mean autologous blood doping ?

  13. On Dec 30, 2:23 pm, "[email hidden]" <[email hidden]>

    Quoted message said:
    Bill C said:

    Think I'll stick to the retro-grouch thing though.

    you mean autologous blood doping ?

    Nah, just beer, wine, and caffeine since I quit smoking a long time
    ago. Think I'll take my caffeine in a cup though, not in the ass.
    Wouldn't matter much if I did hgh, epo, 'roids, pot-belge with extra
    amphetamine topping I'd still get smoked, even by my kids.
    What I need to do is start lobbying for a Cross Nat's race for fat,
    middle aged guys with hundred year old bodies, whose birthday is on
    the 30th of a month that starts with an S, and at least soma, and
    oxycodone are legal. I could top 5 in that.
    If you pumped me full of Riis' 60% blood I might manage a podium
    spot, but hey it's still a lot of fun.
    That's the goal for this year. To do a couple of Cross races, and our
    whole club TT series.

    Bill C

  14. Bill C said:

    http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news/2007/dec07/dec29news

    GPS tracking for athletes?

    I saw that and was very disturbed. It's just wrong.

  15. On Dec 30, 8:03 pm, John Forrest Tomlinson <[email hidden]>

    Quoted message said:

    On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 17:45:51 -0800 (PST), Bill C

    Quoted message said:

    http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news/2007/dec07/dec29news

    Quoted message said:

    GPS tracking for athletes?

    I saw that and was very disturbed. It's just wrong.

    It's also fairly pointless. The purpose of the GPS chip
    would be to make sure the dope cops could find you when
    they showed up for an out of competition test. There's
    already a rule that the athletes have to let the dope
    cops know where they are by more conventional methods.
    But as we saw from l'affaire Rasmussen, it's not clear
    what the consequences of missing an out-of-competition
    test are, and the different national dope-cop agencies
    and national federations seem to have quite different
    standards about whether they do out-of-competition tests,
    where they do them, and what happens when you miss one.
    This doesn't address that the real issues with OOC testing
    are consistent rules and the expense.

    So this "solves" the part of the problem that isn't
    really a problem. Among other things, the dope cops
    don't really need to know where you are right now.
    They need to know where you're going to be in a day
    or two, so they can actually get there to do the test.
    GPS chips aren't psychic. The athletes would still
    need to give the UCI or ADA their travel plans, so
    they don't come to test you in Des Moines and find
    you innocently hopped the plane to San Diego the
    day before.

    Ben

  16. On Dec 30, 10:03 pm, John Forrest Tomlinson <[email hidden]>

    Quoted message said:

    On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 17:45:51 -0800 (PST), Bill C

    Quoted message said:

    http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news/2007/dec07/dec29news

    Quoted message said:

    GPS tracking for athletes?

    I saw that and was very disturbed. It's just wrong.

    dumbass,

    if lance were still racing he'd read that article and laugh.

  17. On Dec 30, 10:03 pm, John Forrest Tomlinson <[email hidden]>

    Quoted message said:

    On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 17:45:51 -0800 (PST), Bill C

    Quoted message said:

    http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news/2007/dec07/dec29news

    Quoted message said:

    GPS tracking for athletes?

    I saw that and was very disturbed.  It's just wrong.

    The whole scene is insane. It's like a twisted parody. They are doing
    and suggesting things that make the "patriot act" look like a joke,
    and we aren't talking trying to save innocent lives, or stop suicidal
    terrorists, we're talking bike racing.
    Somewhere along the line "athlete" has ceased to mean "human" in the
    insane war on doping. If it's wrong in trying to prevent mass murder,
    how much more wrong is it in enetrtainment?
    I never thought that I'd see the day they need to apply basic,
    international human rights laws to a sport, other than maybe in
    dealing with soccer hooligans.
    The whole thing is sick.
    Bill C

  18. Bill C said:
    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:

    GPS tracking for athletes?

    John Forrest Tomlinson said:
    Quoted message said:

    I saw that and was very disturbed.  It's just wrong.

    Bill C said:

    The whole scene is insane. It's like a twisted parody.

    It's all just a little bit of history repeating itself AKA the
    Torquemada complex.

  19. In article
    <[email hidden]>,

    Bill C said:

    On Dec 30, 10:03 pm, John Forrest Tomlinson <[email hidden]>

    Quoted message said:

    On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 17:45:51 -0800 (PST), Bill C

    Quoted message said:

    http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news/2007/dec07/dec29news

    Quoted message said:

    GPS tracking for athletes?

    I saw that and was very disturbed.  It's just wrong.

    The whole scene is insane. It's like a twisted parody. They are doing
    and suggesting things that make the "patriot act" look like a joke,
    and we aren't talking trying to save innocent lives, or stop suicidal
    terrorists, we're talking bike racing.
    Somewhere along the line "athlete" has ceased to mean "human" in the
    insane war on doping. If it's wrong in trying to prevent mass murder,
    how much more wrong is it in enetrtainment?
    I never thought that I'd see the day they need to apply basic,
    international human rights laws to a sport, other than maybe in
    dealing with soccer hooligans.
    The whole thing is sick.
    Bill C

    It's an art project.

    --
    Ryan Cousineau [email hidden] http://www.wiredcola.com/
    "My scenarios may give the impression I could be an excellent crook.
    Not true - I am a talented lawyer." - Sandy in rec.bicycles.racing

  20. Donald Munro said:
    Bill C said:
    Quoted message said:

    >GPS tracking for athletes?

    John Forrest Tomlinson said:
    Quoted message said:

    I saw that and was very disturbed.  It's just wrong.

    Bill C said:

    The whole scene is insane. It's like a twisted parody.

    It's all just a little bit of history repeating itself AKA the
    Torquemada complex.

    Is Tourquemada another version of the PowerTap?

    --
    Bill Asher

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