Rampant doping hurts integrity of cross-country skiing, U.S. coach says

“All I can tell you is that teams are still doping. They might not be getting caught, but they’re still doing it. One hundred per cent.”

where's Dick Pound when you need him?

Who needs the Dick when you have someone else making the claims?

Of couse. It's a sport that is almost as bad a cycling.

In terms of endurance, it's worse ... in cycling, you can draft for days on end.

Vancouver doping confirmed (at the Olympics, not just around town):

http://www.thenews.pl/sport/artykul127656_...oping-----.html

What was it doing in her organism?

Dave.

Is he including US skiiers in there, or is it just "everyone else" that's doping?

Ah, c'mon. This sounds a bit like nation-baiting all over again. US Athletes don't dope. Especially not with hormones like testosterone. Get over it.

This just in:

IAAF to recommend U.S. relay team be stripped of gold

Gene Cherry
DOHA
Mon Mar 15, 2010 2:08pm EDT

...Cox was suspended for four years in January by the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) and all her competitive results since 2001 were disqualified because she used banned anabolic agents and hormones between 2001 and 2004, USADA said. (Anabolic steroids mimic the effects of the natural male hormone testosterone)...

...If the U.S. team was stripped of the gold medal because of Cox's suspension, it would be the fourth Olympic relay medal an American team has lost because of doping. ...

...The IAAF also decided to deny suspended former Olympic champion sprinter Justin Gatlin's request for early reinstatement, Davies said.

The decision means Gatlin is not be eligible to return to competition until July 25. He is serving a four-year suspension for a 2006 positive test for the male sex hormone testosterone...

We should attack the system. The systematic and structured doping, that is.

Dave.

The backstroke? hee hee hee :-) :-) :-) ha ha ha (squeak) ... haha ha haaaaaaa!!!!!