Recent content by Broken Spoke

In his statement on his personal website he says "I had no knowledge of Probenecid nor have I ever taken the substance knowingly in any manner". That limits his defence to a testing error (A and B sample?) or inadvertent ingestion (steak, chinese takeaway, protein shakes, etc). He also says...

Without posting the official response, surely you are at least permitted to give an indication of the circumstances and outcomes in a general sense (i.e. without naming names, clubs, events, etc if that is where the sensitivity lies)? What if I simply ask whether the rumour was completely...

I'm guessing (hoping) that's a joke, but for the benefit of anyone unfamiliar with Savulescu, he is the last person I want anywhere near the sport of cycling. He believes it should be a no-holds-barred doping free-for-all. Possibly the only person I'm aware of who could actually make it worse...

So what's Option B? What if your national rep is as bad as McQuaid? Mike Turtur kept hush on a stage winner testing positive at the TDU and also announced to the world that LA would make his comeback at the '09 edition despite LA being ineligible due to not being part of the OOC testing regime...

Oh dear...

Rotor crankset!!! Ohhh, just the rings are Rotor. Pov.

Accidentally paid his wage? Jeesh, how medieval is pro cycling (from an IR perspective)? You could argue that Lowe's complaint about being selected for a race after testing unfit to do so - a breach of Slipstream's contractual obligations as highlighted by Hardie - is also petty, but he's...

BikeBuoy raise the question in a general sense, but specifically I wonder if Svein Tuft was also a few coins short in his December pay? Same rules for all? Not to mention Cornu (Skil Shimano), Traksel (Vacansoleil), Kemps (Astana), McEwen (Katusha), Lapthorne (Rapha-Condor Sharp), Rohregger &...

A lot of different takes on this... I read the entire piece and at its core is a contractual dispute that's gone way past where it should have been settled and that's why it got messy for all involved. None of this would've happened if Slipstream hadn't cancelled Lowe's contract and withheld...

Umm... About the only thing that HAS been proven beyond reasonable doubt in this case is that AC had clenbuterol in his sample. The steak, the absence of knowledge or negligence - these are unproven defence arguments presented by his legal team. Once you test positive and don't challenge the...

Re Chaingate... WonderLance: LANCE WOULD HAVE WAITED El Imbatido: No Lance is still climbing the Porte de Bales.........

Hopefully with all the hot weather they've had in Perth the WACA wicket will be like broken concrete and we'll see the back of totals starting with 4's and 5's. I enjoy quality batting but 3/1000 on a pan-flat wicket is just tedious. Maybe it's the over-prepared drop in wickets that are to...

It's funny cos it's true! Better yet, actual experience trumps any scientific theory and I've had this happen, coincidentally(?) with a Shimano SPD pedal though certainly not XTR-level. The thing is, getting a detached pedal off the bottom of your shoe is not a simple flick of the wrist even...

If your mate drops his chain on your Saturday morning blast and you keep truckin - you are an a$$hole. If your competitor in the Tour de France drops his chain and you keep truckin - you are doing your job.

Could Team RadioShack's efforts at this Tour be more comical? I got the impression that Bruyneel was supposed to be some sort of genius DS, the architect of a record streak of Tour wins. But here he is reminding us that the Tour was won last year by one of his riders who chose to ignore his 24...