I could care less about Quintana but the lack of due process bugs me. I guess that is the French system. He obviously hasn’t tested positive and lost his 17th place because we would have heard about that by now.
Where is the lack of due process? He hasn’t been imprisoned or even charged with anything. they only searched his room.
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You forget is Year COVID, there’s 185 races taking place within a 2 month span, there’s gotta be something you can watch today!
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I guess I’m not sure what you are getting at. We have no background about what this is for, and are just speculating. Is it part of Operation Alderlas? Something else? Something entirely unrelated to doping?
You are right. We have no information. Obviously they found nothing because if they did they would have arrested him and kicked him out of the Tour. Maybe I’m reacting to the French way of doing things which is search in the hope you find the smoking gun and then ask questions later. Isn’t Alderlas defunct now?
From the various tell all books of doping over the last 20 years, the only way to catch dirty riders (as we know the lab tests aren’t catching much), is to have surprise raids and hope to catch the dopers with some medications they shouldn’t have, or some bags of blood. And the riders seem to be onto this, e.g. Moto-man meeting Armstrong and the doctor in the camper meeting Hamilton etc.
I agree. I don’t think they are going to catch a top rider with a surprise raid anymore.
The sport needs a few high profile riders to get caught and lose everything. Landis type thing, something that scares the peloton a bit. A couple of top 10 finishers doing a few months in jail and having lifetime bans. Or even a high profile team losing it’s license and having the key staff members banned for life.
Looks like their main job is combatting fake drigs:
There is such an obvious gag to be made here, but I’ll refrain on grounds of taste 
It always baffled me, that so many of the managers/staffers involved in all of the doping are still part of many teams today.
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Maybe not…taken form another forum. Can’t vouch for what the Dutch site says, but the poster is pretty reliable.
Just in on a Dutch site…this has advanced to preliminary investigation of possible doping after several substances were found among which “a method that could be qualified as doping”.
This is currently the most effective way to catch dopers. Operation Aderlass is ongoing and has managed to catch quite a few “biggish” names from a variety of sports.
“French police open doping investigation after Arkea-Samsic hotel search at Tour de France.
Prosecutor talks of discovery of medicines and ‘a method that could be qualified as doping’”
Could you post a link?
He didn’t post one…but it seems the same info is in the cycling news link above…
those rainbow strips cost 2000 swiss francs:
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UCI definitely have their priorities sorted. 
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“That rule states that former world champions may wear rainbow bands on the collars and cuffs of their jerseys, but the ex-world TT champions’ long-sleeved skinsuits instead featured the bands midway up their sleeves.”"
can’t decide if this is more or less dumb than the sock length measuring device 
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Wasn’t it something like 4x the fine Sagan got for the sprint? I bet a tall sock fine would be at least 8 times!
I get that there are standards but sock height or stipe location is not a risk, deviating and shoulder barging can, as we have seen elsewhere, have some pretty devistating consequences.
Sending out a good message there: as long as your socks are ok and you don’t really endanger anyone sprint however you like (yes I know that’s more that a little hyperbolic).
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Two arrested now.
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