Comments on: How WADA Caught Up with Ricco http://www.interbiketimes.com/2008/07/23/how-wada-caught-up-with-ricco/ The Official Blog Of Interbike Sat, 15 May 2010 01:30:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Fritz http://www.interbiketimes.com/2008/07/23/how-wada-caught-up-with-ricco/comment-page-1/#comment-27196 Fritz Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:47:49 +0000 http://www.interbiketimes.com/?p=300#comment-27196 Even if the use of "marker molecules" was true, it still doesn't help with the problem of designer drugs like those distributed through BALCO. Even if the use of “marker molecules” was true, it still doesn’t help with the problem of designer drugs like those distributed through BALCO.

]]> By: Carlton Reid http://www.interbiketimes.com/2008/07/23/how-wada-caught-up-with-ricco/comment-page-1/#comment-27085 Carlton Reid Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:36:02 +0000 http://www.interbiketimes.com/?p=300#comment-27085 As is quite normal in 'WADA World' there's been a bending of the truth here. Roche denies they inserted a "molecule" to act as a marker. Was WADA's Fahey lying on purpose or was he just mistaken? Either way, doesn't fill you with much confidence in WADA, though, does it? Athletes need to be 100 percent perfect with their ethics and answers, and anti-doping agencies are deemed by many to be infallible, yet few raise eyebrows when WADA is caught telling porkies. Here's the Roche rebuffal, from International Herald Tribune: "Roche Holding, which makes a version of a stamina-building drug illegally used by some athletes, said it didn't plant a molecule in the substance to help identify it in doping tests, spokeswoman Martina Rupp said...John Fahey, the president of the World Anti-Doping Agency, said in an interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corp. that Roche planted a molecule in its red-cell boosting product CERA, or Continuous Erythropoietin Receptor Activator, during its manufacture to help anti-doping authorities detect its illegal use. Roche sells the drug as Mircera. ... "The information that a special molecule has been added to Mircera is wrong," Rupp said in an e-mail." As is quite normal in ‘WADA World’ there’s been a bending of the truth here. Roche denies they inserted a “molecule” to act as a marker.

Was WADA’s Fahey lying on purpose or was he just mistaken?

Either way, doesn’t fill you with much confidence in WADA, though, does it?

Athletes need to be 100 percent perfect with their ethics and answers, and anti-doping agencies are deemed by many to be infallible, yet few raise eyebrows when WADA is caught telling porkies.

Here’s the Roche rebuffal, from International Herald Tribune:

“Roche Holding, which makes a version of a stamina-building drug illegally used by some athletes, said it didn’t plant a molecule in the substance to help identify it in doping tests, spokeswoman Martina Rupp said…John Fahey, the president of the World Anti-Doping Agency, said in an interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corp. that Roche planted a molecule in its red-cell boosting product CERA, or Continuous Erythropoietin Receptor Activator, during its manufacture to help anti-doping authorities detect its illegal use. Roche sells the drug as Mircera.
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“The information that a special molecule has been added to Mircera is wrong,” Rupp said in an e-mail.”

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