Recent content by babastooey

I was being approximate on the two years thing. Timeline: http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/ferrari-del-moral-and-marti-banned-for-life-in-us-postal-case Ferrari, del Moral, and Marti all get life bans on July 10, 2012. USADA also announces that Armstrong, Bruyneel, and Celaya all want...

I bought Floyd's book when it first came out, not because I was a big supporter of his defense fund or anything (I was not), but I was charmed by his stories about how someone of his background could grow up to become a cycling pro. I wish his book would have come out after his admissions...

I still haven't read the AAA document yet, I haven't had time. But this decision is really getting me confused. A little less than 2 years ago, USADA gave Bruyneel a lifetime ban. He appeals it, not on the grounds that it is excessive, but that it shouldn't apply at all because he's Belgian...

I will, and thank you for providing the useful link.

How about this. Good dopers, 2 years. Evil dopers, life. If evil dopers after they get life turn over a new leaf and provide useful evidence that can lead to suspensions for other evil dopers, they get their life sentence reduced to something like 5 years. If dopers who get 2 or 5...

I've never even heard of the AAA before today. If you had asked me yesterday, I would have told you it was car insurance or a New Deal era program or something. Why do they have jurisdiction in the case of Bruyneel and not USADA? Why didn't USADA simply impose their ban and then that was...

The two big things people are looking at are Libby Hill (cobbles) and 23rd Street (a little bit of cobbles). Two sections people are looking at much less are the paving bricks on Monument Avenue and the cobblestones on Cary Street. Cary Street is wider than Roubaix sections, but they look...

Tommy D still with Garmin. Danny Pate no longer with Garmin. Why?

Is there any chance Finland's Olympic Committee will appeal to CAS to get Sweden's ice hockey silver medal stripped? No love lost between those countries. Will the IOC have the guts to tell the NHL and its players to stay out of the Olympics until the NHL gets its act together? If the NHL...

What if Lance got to keep his TDFs and all of his accomplishments but didn't get voted into a Cycling Hall of Fame. That is basically the comparison you are making. Even if Bonds doesn't get into the Hall, he can always comfort himself at night by saying that the Hall voters are just guys...

Baseball is a whole other animal. If the cyclists sitting on the road in the 1998 Tour was an athlete pushback that delayed the implementation of a movement to clean up the sport, then baseball players are far worse. Worse yet, they see all of this as another chapter in the ongoing saga of...

Plus, it was easy to believe that Greg had been surpassed at the time of his last Tour. It could all be chalked up to lingering effects of being shot in the back, plus he was getting older.

What an interesting article. The part that caught my attention was that all they were concerned about back then was excessive testosterone, which means that they weren't exactly concerned about doping in the zero tolerance way we think of today. Despite it not being against the rules, Greg...

Other than the glory of coming in first, what on earth posesses an amateur to dope? There are no pro team managers or doctors or owners bringing down a hailstorm of pressure, no results needed to grab that next contract, etc. The psychology of an amateur doping is different than a pro, and...

I guess it must have been on the Bourg d'Oisans to Gap stage when they climbed it. I'm not surprised I forgot about it, after all, that was the stage when Beloki went out and you know who went through a field.