Chris Froome to publish performance data following lab tests

Must be Mad wrote:

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Tests show what Froome's body is up to - clean or doped is not the question of these performance tests.

Perhaps we should see what data/conclusions are presented before the vitriol?

A genuine and open question for you: If a rider (any rider, this is not specific to Froome or anyone) is accused by the media of being a drugs cheat - how do they prove otherwise?

It's very difficult - you're basically asking how do you prove a negative.

To me it's an exceptional move by Froome - all of the sports drug cheats have attempted to keep the spotlight off of them, not drawn attention to the accusations. This move is either a very stupid game of brinksmanship - "hiding in plain sight" - or a genuine attempt to prove he's clean. In the absence of a positive test or a credible accusation I believe it is the latter.

Doubtless there will be some ambiguity within the test results and some will latch on to them, but until there is definitive proof that Froome dopes then I will continue to support and admire his results.

jasecd wrote:

It's very difficult - you're basically asking how do you prove a negative.

To me it's an exceptional move by Froome - all of the sports drug cheats have attempted to keep the spotlight off of them, not drawn attention to the accusations. This move is either a very stupid game of brinksmanship - "hiding in plain sight" - or a genuine attempt to prove he's clean. In the absence of a positive test or a credible accusation I believe it is the latter.

Doubtless there will be some ambiguity within the test results and some will latch on to them, but until there is definitive proof that Froome dopes then I will continue to support and admire his results.

Very much so. I think given Armstrong's recent and very public fall in his version of brinksmanship you would need to be either clean or arrogant.

jasecd wrote:

all of the sports drug cheats have attempted to keep the spotlight off of them, not drawn attention to the accusations. This move is either a very stupid game of brinksmanship - "hiding in plain sight" - or a genuine attempt to prove he's clean. In the absence of a positive test or a credible accusation I believe it is the latter.

You don't remember Lance Armstrong working with Ed Coyle then, who published a series of (semi-)scientific papers on Lance's amazing physiology? There are papers on physiological tests of Indurain too I think.

Horner released blood data after his Vuelta win.

Willingness to release data, of itself, is not an indication either way of being clean or being doped.

Paul J wrote:

Willingness to release data, of itself, is not an indication either way of being clean or being doped.

I didn't suggest that it was - only that highlighting the accusations and taking steps to disprove them would be a foolish move were they true.

I think the crux of the matter is the lack of a positive test or a credible accusation beyond the bitterness of the french media and some very paranoid commentators.