Tuesday update
Survivor: Toto edition.
Bordry interview.
Beware the propaganda machine. And beware another liar in US politics, as if we don't have enough already.
Check out the sponsor list at OUCH. How appropriate, partly sponsored by a law firm.
Usually I like Kimmage articles, but this one strikes a bad note.
And you think USA Cycling has problems...
Is Rui Costa CdE's new budding star? I might actually be interested if I had any clue whether he is clean.
A strange social visit...Basso and Fanini??
Old school cycling used in advertising.
Cadel Evans supports the Amy Gillett Foundation.
Craigslist rant: "I give bikers a bad name."
Sam Abt has trouble figuring out who is left to cheer for.
A look at some possible upcoming events in the world of cycling in 2009. Funny.
Fuji-Servetto has enlisted the Mapei Center to run an anti-doping program for the team. A good step, I guess, although the saying "too little, too late" comes to mind. Meanwhile Prudhomme passes judgement on Gianetti, never a good sign.
The sort of press cycling gets lately. Very sad.
HGH test update.
Video interview on Darren Lapthorne's return to cycling after suffering a family tragedy.
Sounds like Milram is just one positive test away from losing their sponsor. Let's hope it doesn't happen.
"Le cyclisme est moribond..."
Gérard Bulens wonders about the bio-passport. He's not the only one.
Update on Priamo case. Is it just me, or do his excuses sound terribly familiar? Terminal denial gets old.
Sinkewitz claims that young riders can learn from him. Hmmm...
For some reason, every time Basso opens his mouth all I can hear is blah, blah, blah. Must be because I don't believe a word he has to say.
A new French book on doping: L'épreuve du dopage: Sociologie du cyclisme professionnel
12 comments:
Agree re Basso.
Interesting to note that Sinkewitz said in his interview that there was systematic doping not only at Telekom but also Quick Step. Did he not say, right after he got busted, that Bettini played a leading role in Quick Step's doping practice. Strangely, not much came out of it; apart from the fact that Bettini did publicly threaten Sinkewitz.
Hey, whattaya know -- Pat McCarty didn't fare so well at Garmin/Chipotle and has gone back to what he knows at OUCH with Landis.
The Kimmage-Romero thing is just the usual classic: when it's "our" people who are excelling, the questions that are at the tip of the tongue when it comes to everyone else are no longer fair.
It's the same with everything: the British Track Team (all-Natural Talent), Team CSC, Team Columbia, Team Garmin-Chipotle...
Pro cycling is such a wonderful circus act of tricks, illusions, clowns, lion tamers, and animals that even P.T. Barnum himself would be proud of the production...
Eugenio Capodacqua says something is different about Basso which must count for something.
How many riders out there have done similar to Basso, taken no punishment and are still employed in the field now? And how many of them are rubbing our noses in it by hiding in "clean" teams? Funny how those same riders aren't quite as good as they used to be either....
Maybe it is 'too little, too late', but the anti-doping systems at T-Mobile, CSC and Astana were only established after scandals. Lets just hope other teams like Caisse join in soon.
McCarty had a one year contract. When a team is expanding with a much improved budget it is only natural that they let go of a guy who may be solid, but not brilliant. Lame to jump to negative conclusions on someone who has a solid track record and has never been implicated for anything.
Garmin has plenty of solid-but-not-brilliant talent -- why McCarty specifically? Was he let go, or did he choose to go elsewhere?
The implication for McCarty is that he rode for a dope-riddled team, Phonak. You cannot possibly believe that there wasn't organized doping at Phonak. Botero, Landis, Bufalo, Camenzind, Hamilton... I can't even remember how many riders got busted while there. Previously he was on another doper's haven at USPS -- albeit one with better (i.e., less traceable) methods.
Fine -- maybe he managed to avoid temptation for all that time, just like some people think CVV has done. Me, I don't believe it.
Seems like filipo has a point.
Does Filipo think CVV avoided temptation? If yes, could you please explain why you assume this while dismissing the equal possibility for McCarty.
The best reason anyone gives for their faith in CVV is that he seems like a nice guy. Well, so did Hamilton and Basso. CVV also rode for Liberty where doping practices were rife. Granted he stayed for just a year.
No way anyone would've been allowed to resist temptation on Manolo's squad...
No, filipo doesn't think that CVV resisted temptation. Remember what a loudmouth he was when Sinkewitz tested positive? He moaned and moaned to VeloNews about how Sinkewitz was ruining it for everybody, how stupid and selfish he was, etc. But he didn't say a thing -- at least not publicly, at least not that I read -- when his teammates (and in one instance his friend) got busted: Basso and Heras. Where were the snide comments then, Christian? These moves sound very self-servicing to me.
And yeah, I've had a bunch of people allegedly in the know tell me that CVV never touched the sauce. Their reasoning? He was "too smart" or "too decent" to do such a thing...
I hope and suppose he's racing clean now, and I fully support that (I am indeed a fan of CVV, but an honest one) -- I just have many grains of salt to swallow.
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