The stink with Sink

The German Cycling Federation (BDR) announced on Wednesday that T-Mobile rider Patrik Sinkewitz's A sample, taken on June 8, had a raised testosterone level.  The rider has been suspended by his team who say that if the B sample confirms the first test then he will be sacked.

T-Mobile manager Bob Stapleton has taken a hard line against doping. No one ever said the anti-doping initiative was going to be easy, but it looks as if the control system is starting to work. It is not like previous years when there were just random controls. The net is getting tighter. It shows the testing works with this form of out-of-competition testing and the internal tests the team conducts. The tests have a powerful message: if you cheat, you have a good chance to get caught, and if you get caught, there are consequences.

Go get 'em Tiger. Let's clean up this beautiful sport once and for all.

The fact that Sinkewitz is suspected of using testosterone is intriguing and one the media has yet to glom onto.  The carbon isotope test on the first of Landis' two urine samples taken after his 17th stage win in last year's Tour indicated the presence of synthetic testosterone. Yet Landis has vehemently denied that testosterone has any impact on performance. Do they all think we are idiots??