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Pedalchick and Joey....three months later.

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  1. Chad Gibson Dec 20, 7:22 pm

    Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.racing
    From: "Chad Gibson"
    Date: 20 Dec 2004 19:22:12 -0800
    Local: Mon, Dec 20 2004 7:22 pm
    Subject: Re: And the LATEST US drug cheat is......

    The source of my anger wasn't Joey, nor was my post directed at him. I
    actualy wasn't angry at all. I just found it funny; you getting bent
    out of shape over a little protein powder and snake oil 'get ripped'
    supplements that are LEGAL when you let a doper coach you.
    Plus, I simply don't like you very much.

    Joey knows how I feel about him, and if he doesn't, well he would have
    to be pretty dense.
    Although, constantly joking about doping, bragging that you know who is
    and isn't doping in the peloton, telling people that EPO is available
    over the internet or over the counter in Mexico, working for a pharma
    co, and taking enough Caffine and sudafed (back when they were banned)
    to make you see God in broad daylight right before a NRC crit next to
    the car, with teammates and passers-by milling around: then getting
    popped after a string of suspiciously good results for a less than
    mediocre career tail-gunner. Then loudly proclaming your
    innocence-that's pretty dense.

    As a matter of fact, I wouldn't even classify my post as a personal
    attack-I was simply pointing out what I percieved as a double standard
    with you. On one hand, you defend J to the end, even tho he is beyond
    guilty and everyone knows it. You even went so far as to have people
    kicked off your team because they dared to say it out loud. Yet your
    gentle sensibilities are offended by a little Ripped Fuel being sold at
    your gym? So if some weightroom monkey wants to choke back every
    wonder drug cum shot that GNC can pump on him, that's not okay--yet, a
    guy in your own sport is a doper, guilty as hell, and you think it's
    just peachy for him to remain in the sport as a coach and advisor to
    lower cat riders and juniors? I say horseshit, plain and simple.
    Why doesn't Joey have the balls to post anymore?

    cp

  2. Taking on the testers
    One rider's effort to clear his name
    D'Antoni maintains his innocence
    By Phil Marques
    Special to VeloNews
    This report filed November 25, 2004
    On September 24, the United States Antidoping Agency announced the
    two-year suspension of 27-year-old Joey D'Antoni.

    Click image to enlarge
    by Mike Hoffman

    D'Antoni in 2002

    The track racer from Raleigh, North Carolina, tested positive for
    recombinant human Erythropoietin (rHuEPO), a synthetic hormone that
    increases the body's ability to produce red blood cells.

    D'Antoni is the third U.S. cyclist to test positive for the banned
    hormone. Former U.S. national time trial champion Adham Sbeih tested
    positive in August of 2003. More recently, up-and-coming rider Adam
    Bergman joined the blacklist.

    Sbeih argued he never took EPO. "I've never even seen the stuff," he
    said.

    Despite offering evidence in his hearing that his result would have
    been considered negative had the EPO test been run at the Australian
    WADA lab, Sbeih earned the dubious distinction of becoming the first
    U.S. cyclist to be found guilty of taking EPO and socked with a two
    year ban.

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    by Casey B. Gibson

    For all intents and purposes, the competitive careers of all three men
    are now finished. Sbeih has since retired and now works in the
    financial industry. Bergman, whose case is pending before the North
    American Court of Arbitration for Sport, declined to be interviewed
    citing his the upcoming arbitration hearing. But those familiar with
    the CAS process say he has little chance of overturning a test result
    that has no way of being contradicted.

    UCLA Olympic Lab Director Dr. Don Catlin, M.D., acknowledges the lack
    of outside peer review for the EPO test.

    "I do not know of a single lab - other than a handful of WADA labs -
    that performs this test," says Catlin. "There is no demand for it other
    than for doping control. Maybe there is a clandestine lab trying to
    monitor athletes?"

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