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"It's over," she said. "I don't want anything to do with cycling. I'm tired of fighting and repeating that I have never taken EPO or any banned substance."
Genevieve Jeanson
Ouch....
The starlet of Canadian female cycling is done for good. Genevieve Jeanson bites the dust and takes a big bite of reality's fruitcake. It's a sad state our sport is in and I would go so far as to say she was just one of many on the juice unlucky enough to get caught. But there is another side to this and all the EPO stories we hear these days, is she innocent? Has natural selection and the sport in Canada actually achieved the ultimate goal and managed to get yet another of the world's most genetically advantaged to rise to the top!? There have been several examples in the last little while of flawed tests so what is one to make of all this? I am somewhat undecided, it's a tough call. I have a feeling this might just go down like Hamilton and Heras, the way of big time publicity and displays of protest only to slowly fade from the media spotlight and bring the guilty back to the real world's harsh doorstep. Beaten, battered and done for after giving it an honest go at the world's toughest sport and then falling to the level of cheating. I want to make it clear that I understand and accept that in many situations doping is an almost necessary and natural consequence of the progression cycling has undergone in the last decades. The thing that sets me off is when athletes proclaim their innocence to the high heavens and then when their money and fanbase runs out and turns their backs they just fade away, never admitting their wrongdoing. If you cheat, get caught, admit it and face the music and then make a comeback to show the kids you can still go far on talent and hard work that's great. I applaud the Sheps, Millars and Hondos of the world. They bring us back to what this sport really is...
Cyclingnews.com provides the facts:
Canadian cyclist Genevieve Jeanson has received a lifetime ban from the US Anti-Doping Agency after testing positive for EPO at the prologue of the Tour de Toona in July 2005, according to reports from Montreal's La Presse newspaper.
The positive result from Toona would officially be her second, after Jeanson failed to report for a doping test at the Fleche Wallonne World Cup in 2004. While she did not test positive there, failure to appear counts as a positive.
Jeanson denied doping, but told La Presse that she was retiring from cycling, even though she plans to fight to clear her name. "It's over," she said. "I don't want anything to do with cycling. I'm tired of fighting and repeating that I have never taken EPO or any banned substance."
Jeanson and her lawyer suggested that she had produced a rare 'false positive', like recently vindicated Belgian triathlete Rutger Beke (see Serious concerns over urinary EPO test). Jeanson's defence also drew attention to the negative result of a test 60 hours after the Toona prologue. The first test (both A and B samples) showed extremely high levels of EPO and the second none, which Jeanson's lawyer argued was impossible.
The US Anti-Doping Agency has jurisdiction over Jeanson's case because she holds a US license following a battle with the Quebec federation (FQSC) after the 2003 Worlds in Hamilton, when she was not allowed to start the road race due to an elevated haematocrit level (she passed subsequent doping tests).
Genevieve Jeanson
Ouch....The starlet of Canadian female cycling is done for good. Genevieve Jeanson bites the dust and takes a big bite of reality's fruitcake. It's a sad state our sport is in and I would go so far as to say she was just one of many on the juice unlucky enough to get caught. But there is another side to this and all the EPO stories we hear these days, is she innocent? Has natural selection and the sport in Canada actually achieved the ultimate goal and managed to get yet another of the world's most genetically advantaged to rise to the top!? There have been several examples in the last little while of flawed tests so what is one to make of all this? I am somewhat undecided, it's a tough call. I have a feeling this might just go down like Hamilton and Heras, the way of big time publicity and displays of protest only to slowly fade from the media spotlight and bring the guilty back to the real world's harsh doorstep. Beaten, battered and done for after giving it an honest go at the world's toughest sport and then falling to the level of cheating. I want to make it clear that I understand and accept that in many situations doping is an almost necessary and natural consequence of the progression cycling has undergone in the last decades. The thing that sets me off is when athletes proclaim their innocence to the high heavens and then when their money and fanbase runs out and turns their backs they just fade away, never admitting their wrongdoing. If you cheat, get caught, admit it and face the music and then make a comeback to show the kids you can still go far on talent and hard work that's great. I applaud the Sheps, Millars and Hondos of the world. They bring us back to what this sport really is...
Cyclingnews.com provides the facts:
Canadian cyclist Genevieve Jeanson has received a lifetime ban from the US Anti-Doping Agency after testing positive for EPO at the prologue of the Tour de Toona in July 2005, according to reports from Montreal's La Presse newspaper.
The positive result from Toona would officially be her second, after Jeanson failed to report for a doping test at the Fleche Wallonne World Cup in 2004. While she did not test positive there, failure to appear counts as a positive.
Jeanson denied doping, but told La Presse that she was retiring from cycling, even though she plans to fight to clear her name. "It's over," she said. "I don't want anything to do with cycling. I'm tired of fighting and repeating that I have never taken EPO or any banned substance."
Jeanson and her lawyer suggested that she had produced a rare 'false positive', like recently vindicated Belgian triathlete Rutger Beke (see Serious concerns over urinary EPO test). Jeanson's defence also drew attention to the negative result of a test 60 hours after the Toona prologue. The first test (both A and B samples) showed extremely high levels of EPO and the second none, which Jeanson's lawyer argued was impossible.
The US Anti-Doping Agency has jurisdiction over Jeanson's case because she holds a US license following a battle with the Quebec federation (FQSC) after the 2003 Worlds in Hamilton, when she was not allowed to start the road race due to an elevated haematocrit level (she passed subsequent doping tests).
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