German XC racer Helen Grobert has received a 4 year ban after failing an out of competition urine test.
Grobert, 27, was the 2015 German champion, placed 12th at the Rio Olympics and has a best World Cup result of 4th, earned at the season opener in Stellenbosch in March 2018. Grobert has not raced since that result and in June 2018 announced she was going on an indefinite hiatus from the cycling world for "health reasons".
It has now been revealed that testosterone was detected in a urine sample taken from Grobert on November 15, 2017 and that a retroactive ban of four years has been handed down by the National Anti-Doping Agency of Germany (NADA). The ban will be instated from March 24 2018, when Grobert stopped racing, and will last until March 23, 2022. Grobert will also have all results from the date of the test stripped.
Testosterone is generally used to increase muscle mass. It is listed in S1 of the WADA Prohibited list and is banned in and out of competition. The decision is not yet final and Grobert can launch an appeal through the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
Press Release: NADA
In an arbitral decision dated March 31, 2020, the German Sports Arbitration Court decided to suspend the internationally competing mountainbiker Helen Grobert for 4 years for an anti-doping rule violation according to Article 2.1 of the German Cycling Federation Anti-Doping Code due to the presence of the prohibited substance testosterone in the urine sample from November 15, 2017. The arbitration panel thus followed NADA's request for the sanction. The period of the ban began on March 24, 2018 and ends on March 23, 2022, taking into account the temporary suspension. All competition results with the resulting consequences in the period from November 15, 2017 to March 24, 2018 will be canceled. The decision is not yet in force.
As soon as the decision is in force it can be found in the NADAjus data base on NADA's homepage.
I’m getting too old to be here
Thanks to modern medicine, that is no longer the case.....
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WANNqr-vcx0
Lets assme his shitty story was true. He had no reception and therefore couldnt check if the drugs that were about to be administered were UCI legal. So far he hasnt done anything wrong, BUT WHY THE f*ck did he not check it as soon as he came home, informed the UCI and withdrew from racing? He waited it out till he got caught.
i think that was why he got the ban, if he had owned up straight away they prob would have given him a med waiver and the doc a word in his ear and let it go. i believe it was becsuse it was still in his system two weeks later when tested. Prob why he didn't fight it. though if i was the UCI that Doc would never be working at an event again if he didn't know what drugs where legal or not or the correct reporting procedures if he had to go off script to save the riders life.
And once her suspension is up she’ll be back and everyone will pretend nothing ever happened. Maybe she’ll even attack people who call her a cheat because she is a convicted doper.
Except the injury was real, the doctor with no affiliation to Maes was real and the drug is extremely common for that type of injuries and is prescribed daily at Whistler's hospital, as mountainbiker and doctor Clark Lewis from Whistler confirmed.
youtu.be/k0t0EW6z8a0
Now Helen can make friends in the middle of the pack, but the UCI decided to attack!
Poor Helen will have to make an excuse, too bad some else already used the one about drinking the wrong juice.
Maybe tell everyone it was from a friendly doctor that saved you from a bad boo-boo, oh crap that was also used too.
Oh Good grief, young Helen did say, I’ll tell them it was from bad beef, that will surely win the day!
I love those guys
Ended up being his post pro racing career. Taking KOM's, and putting it on Youtube.
Interesting point of reference, on a local big climb (30 miles and 6000'), I averaged 200w for 2:45. Phil, and a local pro friend of mine did it in one hour less than me! (in my defense it wasn't an all out effort, but I wasn't cruising either!)
The period of the ban began on March 24, 2018 and ends on March 23, 2022
and then this:
All competition results with the resulting consequences in the period from November 15, 2017 to March 24, 2018 will be canceled.
And now you can comment again. (except trolls, it's ok with you.)
When I was racing road there was a story about a cyclist who had an aunt spiking his food in an effort to help him. He got a + test and subsequently committed suicide. Not at ALL saying that is the case here, but that the scenario calls for exemptions from the lifetime ban, no matter how thin the excuse may be. Plus, there is not a human alive that does not deserve a second chance.
This, however, does bring up, again, the overall questions....why is a girl taking testosterone cheating, but a man taking estrogen and racing as a woman not cheating?
I am not earning money racing, I am in no position judging racers for anything.
Edit: I saw your profile and says you’re 19... explains why you think that way. Get ready for a world of hard lessons then.
- its likely the end of her career
- the titles/results are stripped for the post cheating period
- everyone cheats, but not everyone get caught
- you cant make sure theres no corruption. why is this found 3y later and no one else is listed f.e.?
- what do you do when male to female trans are ok, yet female with testosterone shoots arent?
look at the lance case, i'm usually pretty forgiving and allow them a second chance. In lances case no, not because of the doping but his systemic destruction of other riders who went against or threatened to out him and ruining their careers. He was a monster who would do anything to stay at the top and was in denial for ages until his sponsers left him for tarnishing their reps before he finally admitted to what he had done.
Maes i think was a situation handled badly, was he juicing, i doubt it, did the doc screw up royally, i think that is closer to the truth, a simple phone call at the hospital by the doc or after the race would have gone a long way to stopping what happened to the rider.
You have to understand that he's a product of French and Italian dope shennenigans in the 1980s/90s undoubtedly supported by UCI and WADA. Many ask me: how do you tell your kid to play fair then? I will tell him that No1 Being a Pro athlete is not exactly on top of the list of most meaningful occuptions in the world, No2 Getting near the top of any developed sport like road cycling or Olympic running is a prime sign of mental sickness, with body ruining training protocols. You are messing up your body and by the time you re 40 you are a wreck of a human, so don't. No3: Judging by No1 and 2, doping is a rotten cherry on the rotten pie.
It is not our children's fault that we have such unrealistic expectations of entertainers that top athletes are. It is not the fult of our kids that we decided that high level sports are some pure, idealistic endeavour, a higher plane of human existence. They are not. All developed sports like road cycling are rotten to the bones. I'd have a hard enough time recommending high level MTB to my kids. If my daughter at some point in far future will be dating a top athlete I'll be seriously worried. I have a top athlete in my family, with all the due sympathy he's not the best chap to be around when race or insta live is over.
If your parent(s) were Oly Gold winners, you too were expected to win gold. Or, the options are - drinking, drugs, destructive lifestyles -vs- beating yourself day after day on the bike. I know quite a few people who left the pointy end of the game and ended up homeless, addicts, and dead (Pantani). Up at the top, lives are disposable, emotions are a weakness and the only thing that matters are results.
i only don't like him as had no care about destroying the lives and careers of anyone who threatened his little empire.
cheats are cheats. scumbags who destroy lives to protect themselves are criminals.
Lance Armstrong is nothing more than a convicted doper and cheater. It’s disturbing that people to this day attempt to defend him and what he has done.
Oh, also, not an alcoholic. I just don't drink or do drugs.
@RoadStain: A friend of mine is the brother of a former Olympian and had a lot of pressure put on him (mostly by himself) to meet high expectations. He luckily has been able to separate his brothers legacy from his own and just enjoys cycling now (though he does race as a pro).
www.uci.org/inside-uci/press-releases/the-uci-updates-and-clarifies-its-regulations-on-transgender-athlete-participation
You are right, the most cursory of google searches will result in plenty of useful information for the use of testosterone levels as being the best measure available. But then, a most cursory of searches will find plenty of useful information against it too.
Brutal keyboard warriors today. Someone piss in ur oatmeal?
But hey if you jump on the bandwagon you'll get the upvotes your small ego desires....
Kinda like all the people that were talking crap ALL over the media/web about Rose dropping out of the UFC fight. Then less than a day later it comes out she had Covid deaths in the family and the fight got canceled anyways. LOL! In general people are pretty freaking narrow right now...
They’re all on drugs. The ones who get caught are just worse at hiding it.
classic.rad-net.de/index.php?newsid=49196
Would be interesting hearing her side of the story. Probably just drank from someone else's water bottle or something.
No need to take drugs if you’re CRISPR’d into being a superior athlete genetically from birth.
The British national road racing team was running a doping program: Proofs were lost.
Being a pro cyclist is a privilege, there's many other people out there who dedicate 120% to achieve it and reach that level and deserve that spot more than a freaking cheater!
As I said, I can comprehend such cases, nonetheless, results of the competitions should be stripped even in these circumstances, when a prohibited substance is taken without will. There is a chance of things like this happening and I believe that deserves a second chance, exogenous testosterone in an out of competition test is intentional, and for me the intention is what should make the difference between a light sentence and lifetime ban.
Latest case of Andrea Iannone is an example, were it has been proven and accepted by FIM that it was unintentional intake of a prohibited substance through food contamination with an absurd sentence which I hope gets overruled by CAS, which most probably will.
I couldn't care less if an amateur dopes to smash Strava KOM's, but as I said, being a professional is a privilege, and as such you should behave.