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Just suppose you bet large money six months ago (or a year ago) on a lot
of Tour outsiders. Then you bought 200 bags of pigs blood from a local abattoir, and labelled them with names which could be taken to be the names of likely winners of the tour. Then you publicised the fact that you were running a blood doping clinic in such a way that the police were bound to hear of it... I mean, I can't believe just keeping 200 bags of blood is a criminal offence. Sticking labels on 200 bags of blood isn't a criminal offence. Sticking labels which don't actually have anyone's real name on them can't be a criminal offence. So you get all the top contenders kicked out of the Tour, clean up on your bets on the outsiders, and then turn round to the police and say 'now what exactly is your case?' At this point we don't actually /know/ that there's any cyclists' blood in any of the bags... No, damnit, I'm clutching at straws here. -- (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/ ;; I'd rather live in sybar-space |
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On Fri, 30 Jun 2006 21:57:40 +0100, Simon Brooke
wrote: Just suppose you bet large money six months ago (or a year ago) on a lot of Tour outsiders. Then you bought 200 bags of pigs blood from a local abattoir, and labelled them with names which could be taken to be the names of likely winners of the tour. Then you publicised the fact that you were running a blood doping clinic in such a way that the police were bound to hear of it... I mean, I can't believe just keeping 200 bags of blood is a criminal offence. Sticking labels on 200 bags of blood isn't a criminal offence. Sticking labels which don't actually have anyone's real name on them can't be a criminal offence. So you get all the top contenders kicked out of the Tour, clean up on your bets on the outsiders, and then turn round to the police and say 'now what exactly is your case?' At this point we don't actually /know/ that there's any cyclists' blood in any of the bags... No, damnit, I'm clutching at straws here. Here's a quick fix, run a DNA test on the bags, that can't take more than a few hours right, WTF hasn't this been done ? |
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Keith wrote:
Here's a quick fix, run a DNA test on the bags, that can't take more than a few hours right, WTF hasn't this been done ? 'Cos too many of those named were hoping it would all go away ....? |
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On Fri, 30 Jun 2006 23:02:13 +0100, Dan Gregory
wrote: Keith wrote: Here's a quick fix, run a DNA test on the bags, that can't take more than a few hours right, WTF hasn't this been done ? 'Cos too many of those named were hoping it would all go away ....? Possibly, but who's calling the shots in this "puerto" thing, the Spanish authorities I thought ! But yes you've got a point if I had been these guys I would have asked for DNA testing when the **** hit the fan during the Giro. |
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Simon Brooke wrote: Just suppose you bet large money six months ago (or a year ago) on a lot of Tour outsiders. Then you bought 200 bags of pigs blood from a local abattoir, and labelled them with names which could be taken to be the names of likely winners of the tour. Then you publicised the fact that you were running a blood doping clinic in such a way that the police were bound to hear of it... I mean, I can't believe just keeping 200 bags of blood is a criminal offence. Sticking labels on 200 bags of blood isn't a criminal offence. Sticking labels which don't actually have anyone's real name on them can't be a criminal offence. So you get all the top contenders kicked out of the Tour, clean up on your bets on the outsiders, and then turn round to the police and say 'now what exactly is your case?' At this point we don't actually /know/ that there's any cyclists' blood in any of the bags... No, damnit, I'm clutching at straws here. -- (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/ ;; I'd rather live in sybar-space One Eurosport article claimed the blood had been cross-checked against rider samples from Tour06 to verify identity of the blood in the bags. Apparently they UCI or WADA or whoever owns the samples and can use it for this sort of thing. I couldn't find the reference, but I imagine that's the hard evidence that Riis and T-Mobile were talking about when they pulled their guys. Names on bags is pretty thin without some corroborating evidence. |
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Keith wrote: At this point we don't actually /know/ that there's any cyclists' blood in any of the bags... No, damnit, I'm clutching at straws here. Here's a quick fix, run a DNA test on the bags, that can't take more than a few hours right, WTF hasn't this been done ? Possibly the (hypothetical) faker worked for a drug-testing lab and had real blood from cyclists? |
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The amount taken for testing, however, would be relatively small compared
with the amounts stored for doping transfusions. "MMan" wrote in message oups.com... Possibly the (hypothetical) faker worked for a drug-testing lab and had real blood from cyclists? |
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Simon Brooke wrote:
Just suppose you bet large money six months ago (or a year ago) on a lot of Tour outsiders. Then you bought 200 bags of pigs blood from a local abattoir, More likely to be dogs blood. |
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