tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86928122244369040702024-02-09T07:27:27.409+11:00New Pathways for Pro CyclingResearch into Professional Cyclingauskadihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01797382647700428590noreply@blogger.comBlogger76125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8692812224436904070.post-55450092688533829442010-07-14T16:47:00.000+10:002010-07-14T16:47:58.704+10:00NON AGRESSION PACTA very nice piece by Pedro Horrillo on the unwritten laws of the peloton:
In the peloton there is an unwritten law that must be observed. When the leader stops for a piss the rest waits for him, although first he should be able to interpret the race in order to stop at an appropriate time. Another unwritten law is, and that's the one I mean, when a rider gets into a break he has to work and auskadihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01797382647700428590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8692812224436904070.post-82614743776695179592010-06-16T15:53:00.001+10:002010-06-16T15:53:34.964+10:00Dear Friends in CyclingDear Friends in Cycling
To coincide with the World Road Championships in Geelong Australia we have organised the New Pathways for Pro Cycling Conference.
The conference has been organised to bring together cyclists, administrators, experts and fans interested in the future of professional cycling. Given the current situation we feel that this project is even more important and timely than ever.auskadihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01797382647700428590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8692812224436904070.post-45689091275459890342010-06-11T11:00:00.000+10:002010-06-11T11:00:29.851+10:00“We Don't Want to Know.” - Third Installment of It’s not about the Blood!I feel like Charles Dickens releasing a chapter by weekly installments!
“We Don't Want to Know.”
The Spanish judicial process, like any other judicial process, has not been a linear affair - with interlocutory steps and appeals by various parties including the UCI and WADA all having their effect on the course of the proceedings; such that in 2007 the Investigating Judge Serrano shelved the auskadihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01797382647700428590noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8692812224436904070.post-50498876785459670902010-06-03T19:25:00.000+10:002010-06-03T19:25:17.332+10:00Puertas Abiertas - Second Installment of It’s not about the Blood!The second instalment of It’s not about the Blood! Operacion Puerto and the end of modernity.
Puertas Abiertas
In May 2006 Operacion Puerto broke when El Pais published details from the leaked Guardia Civil files. Not only were Liberty Seguros embroiled but so was Hamilton, Perez, a host of Kelme riders and two of the main challengers for that year's Tour de France – Jan Ullrich and Ivan Bassoauskadihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01797382647700428590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8692812224436904070.post-91597818090238819212010-06-02T17:12:00.000+10:002010-06-02T17:12:19.405+10:00It’s not about the Blood! Operacion Puerto and the end of modernity.I am going to start posting excerpts of my work on Operacion Puerto here. Not the complete stuff but bits. Some of this has already appeared in Spanish in the Journal NÓMADAS. 26 | Enero-Junio.2010 (II)Revista Crítica de Ciencias Sociales y Jurídicas | Critical Review of Social and Juridical Sciences
It will also appear soon in an anthology on Doping and Legal Rights.
The First Installment:
auskadihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01797382647700428590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8692812224436904070.post-25533121652557519412010-05-26T18:32:00.001+10:002010-05-26T19:32:35.642+10:00An Open Letter To The UCI President Pat McQuaidCozy Beehive has published this interesting and timely letter to UCI President Pat McQuaid
Note : A gentleman on a Cycling News forum wrote the following, not me. I'm only helping to spread the word to other cycling fans, as I told him. The letter comes in direct response to McQuaid's statements today, denying using the money Armstrong "donated" in 2005 as bribe to cover up the latter's positiveauskadihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01797382647700428590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8692812224436904070.post-51524541679919891232010-05-23T10:40:00.002+10:002010-05-26T19:31:57.419+10:00More Allegations against Bruyneel and the UCIBelow a rough translation of an article from this weekend's Danish paper Weekendavisen
A dirty deal.
The case of the Russian rider Vladimir Gusev uncovers the concealment, the parallel system of justice and the abuse of power in the International Cycling Union UCI. It also suggests how riders like Lance Armstrong and his team director Johan Bruyneel have been able to get away with the auskadihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01797382647700428590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8692812224436904070.post-66929483082100081142010-05-21T17:42:00.002+10:002010-05-21T17:42:17.581+10:00Professional Cycling - escaping the crisis.This week the cycling world again has been plunged into controversy after doping statements made by Floyd Landis. This is a further chapter in a saga that started with doping allegations in the Festina Tour of 1998. The allegations made by Floyd Landis this week raise issues that many people believe go to the heart of world cycling – its ability to deal with doping that appears to be embedded in auskadihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01797382647700428590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8692812224436904070.post-28596141904685919312010-05-10T10:37:00.000+10:002010-05-10T10:37:05.628+10:00International Network for the Humanistic Studies in Doping Editorial May 2010Martin Hardie
Ghandi once wrote that there is just the same inviolable connection between the means and the end as there is between the seed and the tree. Ghandi’s point was that depending upon which means we adopt the end or result will always be different. We reap exactly what we sow, he said. His aim was to show that only with fair means can we produce fair results.
What has all this got to auskadihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01797382647700428590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8692812224436904070.post-75534949561071159272010-05-10T10:35:00.001+10:002010-05-10T10:35:44.817+10:00Recent Danish media on WADA etc 3Presumed guilty. Two athletes. Two asthmatics. Two idiotic sentences.
Sprayed away
By KLAUS WIVEL
FOOTBALL Player Jesper Münsberg can still not enter his home team's grass field. The 33-year-old defender from Lolland-Falster Alliance, located in the second division East, received in November 2009 a quarantine on a half years after a legal process that has lasted almost two years. Not before auskadihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01797382647700428590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8692812224436904070.post-56122765272850078702010-05-10T10:34:00.001+10:002010-05-10T10:34:25.220+10:00Recent Danish media on WADA etc 2Doping. In Denmark half of all athletes a sanctioned due to drugs that are not performance enhancing. It's more about creating an image of a clean sport than creating a clean sport," the founder of Anti-Doping Denmark Bengt Saltin says.
The Spirit of Sport
By KLAUS WIVEL
"THE worst thing were judgment of the press," Anders Gotschalk says – a sailor from Charlottenlund, north of Copenhagen, auskadihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01797382647700428590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8692812224436904070.post-7731399412014813792010-05-10T10:33:00.002+10:002010-05-10T10:33:47.216+10:00Recent Danish Stories on WADA etc 1WADA. The Anti-Doping Fight has ended in innocent athletes being convicted while the doped athletes get off. Prominent scientists deliver a harsh sentence.
Closed circles
By KLAUS WIVEL
CLAUDIA Pechstein’s glorious career ended in a scandal. The then 37-year-old German skater who has won five Olympic medals was accused of doping during the World Championships in Norway in February 2009. auskadihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01797382647700428590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8692812224436904070.post-12637330811396506812010-04-16T18:54:00.000+10:002010-04-16T18:54:23.890+10:00Two Stories about MichaelRasmussenOutcast. "Personally, I think it is the biggest scandal in sports history.
Across sports. "Michael Rasmussen of miscarriage of justice, on doping
hysteria, to understand Marco Pantani, the sick thoughts, and about why he
did not intend to give up.
Yellow Fever
By Klaus Wivel
There is a narrow street in the outskirts of the small northern Italian
medieval Lazise. The slope slightly downward, auskadihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01797382647700428590noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8692812224436904070.post-80782915167238835882010-02-04T15:27:00.001+11:002010-02-11T18:13:23.368+11:00New IdeasProject Summary.The project will examine the links between:• athlete education and anti-doping;• a sustainable career structure, job security, and anti-doping; and• the social organisation and norms of the peloton and anti-doping.Issues brought to light during research undertaken on behalf of the Commonwealth Department of Health & Ageing by Deakin University (2009 “Doping and Australian auskadihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01797382647700428590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8692812224436904070.post-83815738544327430462010-02-04T15:06:00.002+11:002010-02-04T15:07:59.101+11:00bibliography in the worksThis is the beginning of bibliography of cycling, doping and other issues ........ a work in progress no doubt . "Cyclingnews' recent coverage of the ProTour-Grand Tours split." Retrieved 06/02/2009, from http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news/protour_affair_complete. Free Floyd Landis. Free Floyd Landis, Free Floyd Landis. Independent Investigation: Analysis Samples from the 1999 Tour auskadihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01797382647700428590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8692812224436904070.post-89377354678446098712009-12-09T16:20:00.001+11:002009-12-09T16:22:33.830+11:00Cycling Australia juggles political footballfrom crikey.com.auCycling Australia juggles political footballby Ross StapletonA series of meetings and delicate negotiations are taking place behind closed doors as Cycling Australia, the sport’s governing body, tries to handle a political football that’s giving some of the sport’s key stakeholders considerable heartburn.With still more sensitive talks scheduled this week, CA is being asked to auskadihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01797382647700428590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8692812224436904070.post-22578820656521839372009-11-23T11:35:00.002+11:002009-11-23T11:38:57.668+11:00NEW PATHWAYS FOR PRO CYCLINGNEW PATHWAYS FOR PRO CYCLINGBuilding the Future Common Wealth of Cycling.Version Espanol Conference 27, 28 and 29 September 2010Deakin University, Waterfront Campus,Geelong, Victoria, Australia.Presented by the Alfred Deakin Research Institute and the Deakin University School of Law and School of History, Heritage and Society.In association with the International Network of Humanistic Doping auskadihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01797382647700428590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8692812224436904070.post-37617525255424268162009-11-23T11:33:00.001+11:002009-11-23T11:35:50.287+11:00NUEVAS VÍAS PARA EL CICLISMO PROFESIONALNUEVAS VÍAS PARA EL CICLISMO PROFESIONALConstruyendo la futura comunidad del ciclismo Conferencia: 27, 28 y 29 Septiembre 2010Deakin University, Waterfront Campus,Geelong, Victoria, Australia.Presentado por el Instituto de Investigación Alfred Deakin, la Facultad de Derecho y la Facultad de Historia, Patrimonio y Sociedad de la Universidad Deakin.En asociación con la Red Internacional de auskadihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01797382647700428590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8692812224436904070.post-51632843175379172602009-10-30T13:00:00.002+11:002009-10-30T14:10:40.336+11:00A note on the social peloton.The following occurred to me recently when i was chatting with Rock Racing Director Laurenzo Lapage at the Herald Sun Tour.There is something inherently social, even possibly democratic, about the peloton of road cycling. Social in that it is a place where conversations take place – both in the "heat of the battle" and in the lulls along the road as a race progresses toward the next event, the auskadihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01797382647700428590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8692812224436904070.post-14799886362110311072009-10-23T13:06:00.000+11:002009-10-23T13:08:44.016+11:00The peloton and strategic intervention.From the Theoretical Notes from the Ponds SeriesThe kind of investigation we have in mind is impossible without the cooperation of the peloton. In fact given that it appears incontestable that the peloton is the most isolated or excluded of all ‘stakeholders’ in the policy process to undertake research without their cooperation appears to be futile.On one hand, what we are trying to undertake is auskadihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01797382647700428590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8692812224436904070.post-78146352407744172542009-10-23T07:41:00.004+11:002009-10-23T07:55:00.751+11:00pseudoephedrine is back (on the list)This month the International Network of Humanistic Doping Research Web site Editorial has an editorial from the esteemed English Sports Sociologist Ivan Waddington on the return of pseudoephedrine to the WADA list.Here is the full text which once again raises concerns about transparency and rationality in Anti Doping Policy:October 2009 International Network of Humanistic Doping Research Byauskadihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01797382647700428590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8692812224436904070.post-77491186781785548092009-10-22T12:46:00.001+11:002009-10-22T12:47:50.237+11:00Coming SoonLots to report and lots not reportable .... coming soon ... the Tour, August, Travel all this takes its toll on the blogger's regularityauskadihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01797382647700428590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8692812224436904070.post-58207760689897619872009-06-16T16:32:00.002+10:002009-06-16T16:34:46.574+10:00Horrilo's open letter to McQuaid 2007Finally got around to doing a translation of Pedro Horillo's Open Letter to Pat McQuaid originally published in 2007.Open letter to Mr McQuaid, President of the International Cycling Union PEDRO HORRILLO 2007Mr McQuaid, I haven’t had the pleasure of meeting you personally, although to make things clear from the start, I am not inclined to in the slightest. However, it should not be so, because auskadihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01797382647700428590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8692812224436904070.post-9217267144678728192009-06-03T10:29:00.001+10:002009-06-03T10:30:50.562+10:00“Mr Adams, whereabouts are we?”Following Agamben's signposts in cycling's state of exception.Abstract for talk at Doping and Legal Rights Conference, 20 – 21 August 2009, Department of Sport Science, Aarhus University, Denmark.This paper seeks to take as its starting point Moller's view that the contemporary religious engagement in anti doping campaigns signals a farewell to the ideas of modernity, that is, it is a symptom auskadihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01797382647700428590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8692812224436904070.post-41529414166754219802009-05-29T14:57:00.004+10:002009-05-29T15:18:08.973+10:00Giro and Dolomites - more on myth and the Atlantic question?This story was written a year ago, the characters then gods, now possibly fall into the category discussed previously in this blog. The story may address the question, quite possibly, as to why Europe had better things to care about?Giro and DolomitesCARLOS ARRIBASEmanuele Sella comes from Vicenza, like Pozzato, like the Olympic Theatre of Palladio; Riccardo Riccò comes from Modena, like Ferrari,auskadihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01797382647700428590noreply@blogger.com0