ALBERTO CONTADOR HAS WON THE TOUR DE FRANCE! W00000T!This means I win £5 :D (unless we decide to call off the bet due to recent events
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That era of the sport is full of drugs, the 1998 tour was completely floored with them (that was when the guy was arrested driving a team car filled with doping products). I've read a lot about Armstrong (great book called 'Tour de Force' by Daniel Coyle) even though he claims never to have taken anything or used doping... I don't think I believe him, I believe that some of his victories were off his own back but I think that some of them are down to doping.
I'm reading a great book about an amazing cyclist called Marco Pantani. He was a phenomenal rider, he was amazing but he had a lot of personal problems - he was found dead in 2004 after an OD on cocaine and they discovered he'd been using it since 1999. The book's called 'The Death of Marco Pantani' and is by Matt Rendell.
The sport is getting better, cleaner and new riders are coming through who aren't using. Teams like CSC publish their riders blood test results on the Internet for everyone to see and have very strong anti-doping rules, I think more teams need to do what they did. Even if their manager admitted to using drugs to help him win the Tour de France when he was a rider (he's now been removed of that win and had to return the yellow jersey... not sure if Jan Ullrich will be declared the winner considering his drugs problems)
how naive.. this year TDF is exceptionally dirty, race organizers plainly robbed the racers and all the stuff with honest Contador and un-honest Vino is complete set-up. Everyone races on drugs as it was in Armstrong era, nothing changed. And you check only those you want to check and twist and bend procedure to your preference because it is just set so, The only difference is that this year they can get the exceptionally high money for catching the racer on drugs as they take full sum of last year income fine. So they are just picking the fattiest pray, that's it. It's really nasty. I don't advocate drugs but this has nothing to do with honesty, these are just nice words for public. Robbery is the name.
I hope TDF is over as the most important cycling event with all that happened this year.
I'm reading a great book about an amazing cyclist called Marco Pantani. He was a phenomenal rider, he was amazing but he had a lot of personal problems - he was found dead in 2004 after an OD on cocaine and they discovered he'd been using it since 1999. The book's called 'The Death of Marco Pantani' and is by Matt Rendell.
The sport is getting better, cleaner and new riders are coming through who aren't using. Teams like CSC publish their riders blood test results on the Internet for everyone to see and have very strong anti-doping rules, I think more teams need to do what they did. Even if their manager admitted to using drugs to help him win the Tour de France when he was a rider (he's now been removed of that win and had to return the yellow jersey... not sure if Jan Ullrich will be declared the winner considering his drugs problems)
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I hope TDF is over as the most important cycling event with all that happened this year.
sorry for interference... was just passing by
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