Non-doping wristband !

limerickman said:

The wristband phenomenon has found a new constituency.

According to todays papers, professional cyclists who advocate non-doping are being encouraged to wear transparent wristbands - depicting their statement/intention that they have nothing to hide and do not dope.

Seems that the sport and some of it's participants are prepared to acknowledge that there is a problem.

I don't have a subscription to the paper in which I read the article : but it seems like a good idea.

Yep they know there is a problem, but we have towait and see who does something about it... Why isn't the French anti-doping system installed on an international level.... Is more important than a symbolic gesture like wearing wristbands (which is ok, but i demand action by the UCI!).

By the way... i do wear a wristband: green and white, Raisin hell! The Saul Raisin wristband.

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Another sign of hope at the end of cycling's summer of shame came in the transparent wristband worn by Roger Hammond, Britain's leading male road racer, and other riders during the Tour. This is the symbol of the I Support Drug Free Sport campaign, launched by the UK magazines, Cycling Weekly and Cycle Sport.

"The sport is losing credibility," the campaign's leaders wrote in a letter to Europe's top professional road racing teams last week, "and with it will go support from sponsors and fans. All the fans ask is for believable heroes - riders who do not take the substances that are on the banned list.

"We do not want a witch hunt. We do not want to point the finger of accusation at individuals. We want authentic races, true results and believable heroes."

The campaigners are not innocents (they are fans of cycle racing - how could they be?) They recognise the danger that riders who dope will queue up to wear the wristband in an attempt to camouflage themselves. But it seems a worthwhile attempt to encourage, as they say, "a shift in the culture" of a sport in which the good far outweighs the well-publicised bad.

limerickman said:

The wristband phenomenon has found a new constituency.

According to todays papers, professional cyclists who advocate non-doping are being encouraged to wear transparent wristbands - depicting their statement/intention that they have nothing to hide and do not dope.

Seems that the sport and some of it's participants are prepared to acknowledge that there is a problem.

I don't have a subscription to the paper in which I read the article : but it seems like a good idea.

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whiteboytrash said:

sport.guardian.co.uk0,,1864905,00.htmlOpen ↗

Another sign of hope at the end of cycling's summer of shame came in the transparent wristband worn by Roger Hammond, Britain's leading male road racer, and other riders during the Tour. This is the symbol of the I Support Drug Free Sport campaign, launched by the UK magazines, Cycling Weekly and Cycle Sport.

"The sport is losing credibility," the campaign's leaders wrote in a letter to Europe's top professional road racing teams last week, "and with it will go support from sponsors and fans. All the fans ask is for believable heroes - riders who do not take the substances that are on the banned list.

"We do not want a witch hunt. We do not want to point the finger of accusation at individuals. We want authentic races, true results and believable heroes."

The campaigners are not innocents (they are fans of cycle racing - how could they be?) They recognise the danger that riders who dope will queue up to wear the wristband in an attempt to camouflage themselves. But it seems a worthwhile attempt to encourage, as they say, "a shift in the culture" of a sport in which the good far outweighs the well-publicised bad.

limerickman said:

The wristband phenomenon has found a new constituency.

According to todays papers, professional cyclists who advocate non-doping are being encouraged to wear transparent wristbands - depicting their statement/intention that they have nothing to hide and do not dope.

Seems that the sport and some of it's participants are prepared to acknowledge that there is a problem.

I don't have a subscription to the paper in which I read the article : but it seems like a good idea.

If they can lie to the media and thousands of fans, slipping a transparent wrist band on is nothing.

helmutRoole2 said:

If they can lie to the media and thousands of fans, slipping a transparent wrist band on is nothing.

On one hand you are right, but it's a good signal.Still i demand action by the UCI, the German federation took over the French control system and while McQuaid is talking about 58 riders have to give a DNA sample i ask myself well why doesn't McQuaid install the French anti-doping programm on an international level....

Edit: my spelling....

I bet Disco will use the wristband.

Good intention, but... no hope of sucess even if the entire peloton use them, don´t you think?

I have to agree with Cyclingheroes, french system should be installed worlwide and them there is some hope.

Imagine a rider with non-doping wristband to test positive..🙂

helmutRoole2 said:

If they can lie to the media and thousands of fans, slipping a transparent wrist band on is nothing.

No doubt. They're not just cheaters, they're liars.

...hate to admit my cynicism, but did candide come up with this idea? more, better, and unexpected testing coupled with rigid enforcement of bans seems an efficient path to take. withholding final opinion until martin jackson weighs in on the wristband thing, though.

Perhaps an armband would be more appropriate.
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I cannot wait for used car salesmen to start wearing "I am not a crook" wristbands. When that happy day arrives I will rest assured that I will no longer get ripped off. 😉

Bro Deal said:

I cannot wait for used car salesmen to start wearing "I am not a crook" wristbands. When that happy day arrives I will rest assured that I will no longer get ripped off. 😉

The first time I caught Rich Little in concert was in August of 1974-he had worked his impersonation of Nixon into a used car salesman routine at Milhous Motors. The tape deck, which he said was only driven to church on Sundays by a little old secretary, had a problem with the tape deck that had a problem of erasing 18 minute segments of the tapes.

meb said:

The first time I caught Rich Little in concert was in August of 1974-he had worked his impersonation of Nixon into a used car salesman routine at Milhous Motors. The tape deck, which he said was only driven to church on Sundays by a little old secretary, had a problem with the tape deck that had a problem of erasing 18 minute segments of the tapes.

Did Rich Little do "You asked for it ?" the TV show ?

Bro Deal said:

I cannot wait for used car salesmen to start wearing "I am not a crook" wristbands. When that happy day arrives I will rest assured that I will no longer get ripped off. 😉

drunkcyclist.com used to sell black "live wrong" wristbands. I just went there and didn't see them for sale anymore. Great site if you haven't seen it.

Interesting. This new wristband will go well with my childline wristband, my coca cola wristband, my cancer wristband, my aids wristband, my free sunday newspaper wristband, my country colours wristband, my gender wristband, my available to the opposite sex wristband etc etc etc etc...

It would appear that the entire wristband thing has gotten... a bit out of hand. 🙄

retarded.

Nice gesture I guess. And I hope there really are pro cyclists who are riding clean and promoting a clean sport. But I'm sure that putting on the transparent wrist band will just become another level of cover-up and denial for all of the dopers that will end-up wearing them.

Powerful Pete said:

It would appear that the entire wristband thing has gotten... a bit out of hand. 🙄

very good!