With that Jordan you are right. Nonetheless WTC missed out on a great opportunity to do even better. We all know post race testing is viewed by many as just nonsense. Only the really simple minds get caught positive at a post race test. It's surprise out of competition tests that do the most damage. And of those WTC does not do too many, right? With the anti doping programme that was installed for all Pros racing IM Germany 2006(?)-2009 there was a special testing programme which had a female pro I know personally tested 9 times in 2009, her only year in that testing pool. Unter the global testing regiment of WTC in 2010 she was tested - guess what - ZERO - times leading up to the race. It has been said that the German testing was dismessed by WTC as too expensive. And I understand that. If each athlete pays $ 750 a year then this covers about one test per athlete & year and he has not even participated in any races. Any further tests would have to come from WTC itself who for obvious reasons aka profit won'T invest any further than absolutely necessary.

@ Axel: Great detective work by the way!

Maybe because he wrote a book denying the doping allegations, then comes clean after he collects his profits from that book.

I was in Maui for the XTERRA World Champs and I'm almost positive there was no testing.

Mapletop - can you explain the motivation for over-turning the original finding? Don't say "political" because that is not specific. What's the reasoning for this injustice? Who benefits? Does someone have a personal grudge? Give us something.

WTC's OOC schedule varies with the athlete. I was tested three times OOC this year. Some athletes are tested more. Not every athlete who races is part of the WTC testing pool; they used to have the athletes in the pool listed, but I can't find it - or they've taken it down. It was ~75 athletes (and there are about 500+ athletes with WTC licenses).

Anyway, here is the PDF with the # of OOC tests: http://c23038.r38.cf1.rackcdn.com/...oping-Statistics.pdf

Based off my recollection of the approximate number of athletes, it appears ~3/year is relatively standard for OOC (112 tests so far OOC this year).

More info here:

http://www.usada.org/athlete-test-history

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Brett Miller
Cydesdale Triathlon
M2 Revolution

With that answer you should go into politics...Spoken like a true politician.....

Yet, he's in insurance.

Judging from his website, Jeff sounds like a really nice guy who does a lot of good things in and for his community. I hope he doesn't take all this too hard.

The same may be said of you Uli judging from your Facebook page but I beleive insurance agent is still higher on the sh*t list of professions than lawyers and politicians.

I'd like to have that answer with certitude, but it resides with a group of individuals in Austria. I can say this however, there is overhwelming political pressure everywhere to root out unlawful conduct in sport, and rightfully so. It comes as no surprise for political motivations to be aligned with economic interests as well, you needn't look too far in our own country to see that. Nevertheless, overzealous motivations are known to blur objectivity and fairness, that's a fact of inescapable reality when it comes to this topic. You will beleive what you want to beleive, that too is an inescapable truth.

I WAS giving you the benefit of the doubt... but with that non-answer to a clear and direct question, take your ball and go home