Now this is more like it

Bro Deal said:

Interpol gets involved with doping:

http://www.velonews.com/pr/prn/articles/10988.0.html

Agreed.

And a welcome move.

In recent years the French civil authorities became involved and in ltaly the Italians authorities too started to monitor doping.

When the French authorities became involved - a wholesale migration of riders from France went south to Spain.
With Interpol's proposed involvement, this should reduce the number of locations available for riders to migrate to.

limerickman said:

With Interpol's proposed involvement, this should reduce the number of locations available for riders to migrate to.

Expect a bumper year for the American domestic scene. :eek:

meandmybike said:

Expect a bumper year for the American domestic scene. :eek:

Atleast something positive will come out of this! 😉

steve said:

Atleast something positive will come out of this! 😉

You're right...both A and B.

Bro Deal said:

Interpol gets involved with doping:

velonews.com10988.0.htmlOpen ↗

It's probebly the only solution.

Chance3290 said:

You're right...both A and B.

Oh, SNAP!

cyclingheroes said:

It's probebly the only solution.

I don't know. We're now using the elite crime fighting organization of Europe to battle cyclists who are using performance enhancing drugs. When it gets to this point, more than just the cyclists needs examining.
People have said procycling, especially the grand tours, have gotten too big. Bigger fields, longer stages, higher climbs at the end of longer stages. I've only been watch cycling for the past few years. How does current cycling compare to 15 or 20 years ago? Are the organizers asking too much of the riders?

Chance3290 said:

I don't know. We're now using the elite crime fighting organization of Europe to battle cyclists who are using performance enhancing drugs. When it gets to this point, more than just the cyclists needs examining.
People have said procycling, especially the grand tours, have gotten too big. Bigger fields, longer stages, higher climbs at the end of longer stages. I've only been watch cycling for the past few years. How does current cycling compare to 15 or 20 years ago? Are the organizers asking too much of the riders?

No it's the average speed that is too high but there is not a lot that race-organizers can do about that. They only thing they can change is making the transfers not too long (like for instance this years Giro, from Belgium too Italy).

The good thing about Interpol is that they more capabilitys to go after the people behind it all, the Fuentes, Ferrari's etc. It's good if not only riders are punished, they have to beat the doping system and with suspending riders nothing will ever change.

cyclingheroes said:

No it's the average speed that is too high but there is not a lot that race-organizers can do about that. They only thing they can change is making the transfers not too long (like for instance this years Giro, from Belgium too Italy).

The good thing about Interpol is that they more capabilitys to go after the people behind it all, the Fuentes, Ferrari's etc. It's good if not only riders are punished, they have to beat the doping system and with suspending riders nothing will ever change.

Also Interpol has jurisdiction in all countries whereas local country police (like the spainish police) can only go to the border.... hard work when drugs are being transported across the borders in Europe.... like in carparks to Armstrong.....

Chance3290 said:

How does current cycling compare to 15 or 20 years ago? Are the organizers asking too much of the riders?

The racing is similar. What is less and less believeable are the average speeds, which continue to increase at a rather surprising pace, year on year.

Is it all improved training? Hhhmmmmm....

whiteboytrash said:

Also Interpol has jurisdiction in all countries whereas local country police (like the spainish police) can only go to the border.... hard work when drugs are being transported across the borders in Europe.... like in carparks to Armstrong.....

IN the grand scheme of life though, would we rather have Interpol going after dopers who in the grand scheme of things do nothing but entertain us with their abilities (Real or artifical), or have they chase down terrorists, child pornographers, murderers, rapists and arsonist, etc. I think it would be a waste of Interpol's time and funds to do this kind of work.

If its practical, is see if each state maybe provide a few law enforcement officers, detectives, high ranking officials, whomever, and join a joint task force set out to do nothing but chase down these doping affairs (Personal i dont think doping is really a criminal matter, but I am offering a suggestion to handle it if the countries so desire to go this route). Whenever any state in the USA has a spree of related burgularies, murders, etc, they will take law enforcement from the several adjoining counties and combine the services and information to allow more efficient and effective tactics to apprehend the suspect/suspects.

But they could make a reality TV show out of it... wouldn't it be good to see Landis getting busted and handcuffed over the hood of his car to the theme of "Bad Boys" by two burley Interpol cops ?

Capt.Injury said:

IN the grand scheme of life though, would we rather have Interpol going after dopers who in the grand scheme of things do nothing but entertain us with their abilities (Real or artifical), or have they chase down terrorists, child pornographers, murderers, rapists and arsonist, etc. I think it would be a waste of Interpol's time and funds to do this kind of work.

If its practical, is see if each state maybe provide a few law enforcement officers, detectives, high ranking officials, whomever, and join a joint task force set out to do nothing but chase down these doping affairs (Personal i dont think doping is really a criminal matter, but I am offering a suggestion to handle it if the countries so desire to go this route). Whenever any state in the USA has a spree of related burgularies, murders, etc, they will take law enforcement from the several adjoining counties and combine the services and information to allow more efficient and effective tactics to apprehend the suspect/suspects.