[ire]

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news/2007/sep07/sep28news3

Rasmussen took Dynepo in Tour
While legally not a violation of the anti-doping code, Danish rider Michael Rasmussen was found to have taken Dynepo in the 2007 Tour de France. Dynepo is an EPO product based on human cells. Samples from this year's Tour were analysed in the French anti-doping lab in Châtenay-Malabry, and its technicians have alerted the International Cycling Union (UCI) of the findings, French paper L'Equipe reported in its Friday edition.

Dynepo was found in a urine test of Rasmussen. Rasmussen had not been found positive during the Tour, but was kicked out by his team Rabobank, following his whereabouts affair.

For about a year the French lab has detected Dynepo, all in all about ten cases so far, according to Pierre Bordry, the president of the French Anti-Doping Agency. But none of the cases could have been declared as a positive finding, as the WADA criteria of positivity of a test are not yet adapted to the advances in the pharmaceutical market.

 

[Heidi]

Why isn't it a violation of the code?

 

[Zutroy]

Why isn't it a violation of the code?

Test hasn't officially been validated by WADA. So legally they can't use the results.

 

[ire]

Yup, he can dope away...for a while at least. What a POS, I hope someone runs his a** into a ditch during a race

 

[MtnbikeMike]

Yup, he can dope away...for a while at least. What a POS, I hope someone runs his a** into a ditch during a race

Yeah, but then they'd be a hypocrite.

 

[LordOpie]

Yup, he can dope away...for a while at least. What a POS, I hope someone runs his a** into a ditch during a race

Or they can stay away and let him run himself into a ditch, again and again

 

[Zutroy]

I gotta say it's really ****ty this info leaked out or even is being called a positive. Since the test hasn't even been proven to be accurate yet. Another case of the system being ****ed up and against the riders.

 

[Silver]

I gotta say it's really ****ty this info leaked out or even is being called a positive. Since the test hasn't even been proven to be accurate yet. Another case of the system being ****ed up and against the riders.

I'm past caring. I really don't know who bugs me more, Dick Pound, or the riders that have more dope in their bodies than Rick James would feel comfortable with. **** em all...

 

[ire]

Or they can stay away and let him run himself into a ditch, again and again

Good point I gotta say, watching him go down the hill makes me ashamed to say I'm a mountain biker.....how did he get to be world champion?