http://www.velonews.com/article/73408/julich-we%92re-on-our-last-leg
VN:Will the biological passport help?
BJ: I think that’s a good idea. That’s basically what we’ve done at CSC.
I think that’s fantastic and that’s the way we can establish a baseline
for people, but they have to target the people who are suspicious and
who are prone to that risk. I don’t think a guy who isn’t even going to
the Tour, you shouldn’t have to control him five times in
out-of-competition tests a month before the Tour. Focus on the guys who
you need to focus on and leave the other guys alone. They know who are
the risky cases and who are not. They have our blood and urine for
years. I don’t think this biological passport is anything new because
we’ve had to give our blood and urine to the UCI four times a year for
four, five years already anyway.
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Bobby Jewlick - aka "BJ" - isn't qualified to state whether the
biological pissport system will help or not. "Establishing a baseline"
is stupid because it has no effect on whether you are positive under
WADA code nor will it be used to help WADA sustain a conviction against
a rider. So it will do nothing in terms of catching riders or
preventing them from cheating.
There is no evidence that any of this information collected in the
biological passport is being interpreted with the proper software,
statistics, or experts. The UCI and teams simply do not employ these
experts oor methods. Instead, they pay money for what is a PR CAMPAIGN
of which 100% of the biological passport information is kept
confidential and cannot be used to sanction a rider.
Gontchar is the only example that comes to mind actually, which is
pretty amazing given that Stapleton employed doping doctors from the
Freiburg Clinic to administrate his anti-doping program.
So 1 rider in the entire pro peloton in the past 2 years has been caught
with internal doping control? How many cyclists has the current WADA
system caught in that same time - like 15?
What about Slipsemen's passport system...none of that information is
made public - there's no transparency as they said there was going to
be. Vaughters never disclosed the names of those riders who gave "funny
numbers."
Thanks,
Magilla