The List was Confirmed 24 August 2011, Published 1 October 2011, and can be found here

This List shall come into effect on 1 January 2012.

The official text of the Prohibited List shall be maintained by WADA and shall be published in English and French.

In the event of any conflict between the English and French versions, the English version shall prevail.

Over on SlowTwitch, the science editor - Jonathan Toker did a nice job outlining the updates.

I was doing something like this back in '95.

I'm sure many others were as well.

Big Jonny over at http://drunkcyclist.com posted a note back in '02; and then did a nice write-up in June of '07.

Many of us are gearing up to lay down some long days in the saddle commonly referred to as 'Base Training'.
During this time, flat prevention becomes a higher priority then weight, or aero-ness.

On the flip, Big Jonny himself will tell* you what he knows about the system.

*Note: Big Jonny uses language that is a bit more saucy and colorful then typical PDC articles; but nothing more then I've read on some Comment Threads here, so I think it's fine.

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My apologies for not getting this up earlier, but the week has been a bit hectic with work on last minute details of the 2012 development projects, as well as initial roll out of 2013 projects.

On a chilly Friday morning, I picked up the Pinarello from Marco, the Product Manager, and set out with a couple guys from Canyon Bicycle to put the bike through some testing.
As we rolled out sipping on coffee and enjoying the morning we all got used to the shifting style of this drivetrain with lots of basic up & down shifts to get the feel of things before we hit the foothills outside of Taichung.

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My Friday will start in a few hours with sunny 25c weather on a Pinarelo Dogma w/Campy EPS to to test out.

Today I checked it out on the test stand today, and I am totally impressed.

Way more impressed then I was the first time I saw Di2.

Ok, it is 12am and I need some sleep.

I'll tell you more tomorrow. . . . . . . Yadda yadda yadda yadda

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Last weekend, the largest one day race in Taiwan happened.
The Taiwan Cup

 - After a neutral start the pack rolls out of town and hits 60km/h within the first km of the race.  

Some of the more well known teams that were invited -
> Rabobank Cycling Team
> KENDA - 5-HOUR ENERGY CYCLING TEAM
> DRAPAC CYCLING
> KOLSS CYCLING TEAM
> VELO-CLUB LA POMME MARSEILLE
> SHIMANO RACING TEAM
> Euskaltel-Euskadi’s - Amets Txurruka

I was asked by the small foreign team CCN-Colossi to help them with 'Managerial Logistics'.

There are some random pics after the break.
To learn more about the ongoings in the actual race, go see the article by Lee Rogers, as he was actually in the break and had one hell of a day.  

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"The official text of the Prohibited List shall be maintained by WADA and shall be published in English and French.

In the event of any conflict between the English and French versions, the English version shall prevail.

This List shall come into effect on 1 January 2010"

This yearly published document often comes under criticism annually, but this year I really think the WADA has taken such brazen step to restrict the In-Competition use of Alcohol to a haematological value of 0.10 g/L in Bowling that I am really at a loss for words.

That's right! Bowling.

Makes me wonder if next, this audacious often impertinent; and in this case ludicrous governing body will start to regulate water!

Went to the the Out Door Demo yesterday . . . .

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Cycling News - Riccò signs with Vacansoleil

This has been out now long enough I am shocked (SHOCKED!) there has not been a thread put up yet.

So, I’m gonna’ come right out and say two things.

First, Vacansoleil just killed themselves in the eyes of most ProTour Race Promoters, as well as the UCI in regards to achieving ProTour status.  

You think they didn’t get invited to many PT races before?

Well, I suspect outside of maybe some northern classics, which the Cobra will likely still be in hibernation, they have just removed all possibility of ever getting into any PT event.

Going ProTour Status as a team up against I think 11 other possibilities with an anchor like this on their roster?

I bet the UCI will gladly take their entry fee, and then graciously decline their request on some thinly veiled grounds; like they don’t eat enough pork, or something. 

We’ll see, and I could be wrong; but I doubt it for the simple reason that historically there have been a number of teams snubbed for much less then simply having a guy like Rico on their roster.

This brings me to the second thing that crossed my mind during all this.

Is Lefevere really so diabolical that he learned Rico was in talks with Vacansoleil that he flirted with the possibility of signing him in order to force Vacansoleil to commit to a rider for a possibly higher price then they wanted, and thus in one shrewd chess move sent this team careening on a path of eventual destruction while simultaneously castrating the hopes and dreams of Devolder?

I wouldn’t put it past him.

Jens linked this in a recent discussion, so I thought I'd bump this back up as I feel it is very helpful info.

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In a recent post about some guy who may, or may not have knowingly consumed banned substances there was a thread that went on and on regarding supplements.

While reading the opinions some had it occurred to me that many here don't seem to have a lot of understanding about supplements in any manner what so ever.

On the flip, you will find a series of articles I have linked from Slowtwitch.com written by Jonathan Toker, Ph.D. about some basic info on this stuff that you can think about.

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