Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: 55th, 63rd, Arapahoe, bike lanes, Boulder, cycletracks, Folsom Street, Iris STreet, right-sizing
Turns out that new street treatments on Folsom will not continue through the part of town where they are most needed.
A controversial plan to remove vehicle lanes to allow for wider bike lanes on four major streets in Boulder will move forward on three of them: Folsom Street, Iris Avenue and 63rd Street.
A few minutes before midnight, after hearing testimony from roughly 80 people, the City Council voted 7-2 to support the “right-sizing” plan that was developed as a pilot program as part of the Living Laboratory bike facilities project.
via Boulder right-sizing bike-lane project moves forward on 3 of 4 streets.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: bike racing, biological passport, cheaters, cheating, cycling, doping, EPO, Garmin-Cannondale, micro-dosing, Vaughters
…except for PR purposes.
“We’d been hearing that the athletes biological passport, which is the latest tool in the fight against doping, is not quite as sensitive as people might want to think,” he says. “What we decided to do, with me being an amateur athlete, is put this passport to the test.”
He writes:It would last for 14 weeks, and have three phases. I would have my blood taken once a week and sent off to a lab for analysis. A doctor would monitor my health throughout.Baseline – weeks 1-3: establish what my “normal” blood levels are. Performance test at end of week 3Loading – weeks 4-10: undergo a program of between 2-3 micro-dose injections of EPO per week. Each injection would be supervised. Performance test at end of week 10Washout – weeks 11-14: critical phase of the experiment, when I stop taking EPO and the passport is meant to be most effective.The plan was to collect 14 blood analyses and have them put through the biological passport software to see if it would catch me.
But he wasnt testing to see if EPO works. He knows it works. He wanted to see if he could get away with doping. He took blood samples each week and sent them to have them analyzed and placed into a biological passport. “And the truth is, I was able to sail through the tests. I got away with it,” he says.
via Reporter dopes to show how easy it is to evade drug tests | Public Radio International.
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