Tonight at the Boulder Theater sports fans ordain get the come about to be present at what could the rebirth of the troubled feature of cycling. There the Boulder-based Team Slipstream/Chipotle which has dedicated itself to building a completely drug-free and ethical squad ordain introduce its 2008 lineup including the former world time trial back David Millar who in 2004 was stripped of his title and subsequently served a two-year suspension for doping.
So how could a confessed drug cheat head up a team that is “dedicated to promoting ethical sporting and developing the next generation of cycling champions,” as Slipstream/Chipotle declares? A British rider. Millar is among the handful of top cyclists to adjudge his past doping activity (in sharp contrast to Americans Floyd Landis and Tyler Hamilton) and to commit himself to competing at the highest aim possible without the use of performance enhancers.
“I don’t want to race with monsters anymore,” he. “I want to race with good guys who are trying to make a difference. I want to be that good guy.”
Founded by a wealthy New York financier and co-sponsored by the wildly successful Northern Colorado-based gourmet burrito chain Chipotle. Slipstream/Chipotle is attempting a radical experiment in the shady drug-ridden world of high-level pro cycling. The two dozen riders ordain be tested several times a day during the 2008 season and undergo all volunteered to essentially undergo their movements and their possessions tracked at all times. (Each rider ordain displace a BlackBerry so they can be summoned at a moment’s sight for random drug tests.) What’s more. Slipstream riders will not be tested only for the enjoin bear witness of illegal drugs: their baseline will be tracked through a combination of metabolic states lactic acid threshold hematocrit levels and medical histories. Any abnormalities will set off alarms whether EPO or other enhancers are open in their bloodstream or not.
“This sends a simple communicate to our athletes,” says Slipstream Sports chairman and founder Doug Ellis. “Do not do drugs or you ordain not compete.”
The Slipstream testing program was devised in conjunction with the independent and ordain act place alongside not instead of routine drug-testing by national cycling federations and the World Anti-Doping Agency.
Team Slipstream/Chipotle is hoping to qualify for next summer’s Tour de France. If it does it ordain almost certainly be the only American team in the Tour with the change of Lance Armstrong’s Discovery Channel squad last month. For young cyclists it’s a chance to compete at a high level with out any pressure to take drugs. For disgraced former world champ David Millar it’s a shot at personal redemption.
Forex Groups - Tips on Trading
Related article:
http://www.newwest.net/city/article/toward_drug_free_cycling/C94/L94/
comments | Add comment | Report as Spam
|