Bombshell! CAS declares Miguel Angel Lopez did not dope at 2022 Giro d'Italia and orders Astana pay him a large sum of back pay
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He is not innocent but they were not able to prove or supply enough evidence to convict. But he is dodgy as hell.
Normal if you base your whole case on suggested, potential, possible.
No evidence, no positive test, no trace. It was however convenient for Astana if they could get away with not paying.
Funny how in such cases no-one criticises the UCI.
Only one day after I tried explaining here the difference in authority and decision value between police and judges to people who don’t seem to want to understand because it complicates their world view. And in this case the UCI was neither.
All this bs did a number on him, though. Quintana was screwed over the same way.
It is not even banned, strictly speaking. It is only banned for use on days of competition.
It has never really been proved to have performance enhancing effects but it does reduce certain pain.
Painkilling as doping is an interesting topic, at what level of painkilling do we consider a product doping? On the one hand you can suppress pain to ride better, on the other hand, can you forbid an injured or crashed rider from receiving something to relieve pain?
But yes, the POTENTIAL side effects (dizziness isn’t even the worst) make Tramadol a danger, to the rider and consequently also to those in vicinity.
That said, side effects are personal and rare, if you don’t suffer them there is no risk, so anyone taking it regularly knows if they get affected.
That also having been said, in general the UCI cannot rule individually so it has to be either banned or not and defined clearly. Medical exceptions may be necessary but that already leaves things less clear, doctors are notoriously different in needs interpretation.
Funny, you guys are responding to a troll. He does not even know how to make proper comments. All he does is usually, trolling on here, (I mean, most of his comments are pretty negative, just pure complaining, throwing insults, etc).
The fact he's compare Miguel Angel Lopez's doping suspension, to Nairo Quintana's is shows how misinformed he really is. Tramadol is not a PED aka Performance enhanced drugs. Menotropine and Tramadol not the same thing. Not the same at all.
Examples of PEDs are Meldonium, Roxadustat. Both blood agent PEDs, which was banned by WADA.
I don't know Menotropine is PED or not, but it is not my concern.
He did throw insults at my comments, several times, (often so bad, I had to delate my comments, and redo it afterwards), for reasons I had no idea of🤔😒. And I don't even troll him. I got insulted by him, despite did not even stalk his comments :/
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