Recent content by Paco_P

Compare the British coverage of Luis Aragones and John Terry.

Certainly there is. I doubt very much Contador, etc. will incriminate themselves ...

As I explained in another post there is no need for convoluted reasoning to explain why the trial has been so delayed. All important trials in Spain are delayed by many years. It will be many years before the King's son-in-law Undangarin gets to trial, if he ever does. Corruption is sometimes a...

This is the original Operacion Puerto. The charges against the doctors were not thrown out although the riders were not charged. Those charged: Eufemiano Fuentes, Yolanda Fuentes, José Luis Merino Batres, Manolo Saiz, Vicente Belda, and Ignacio Labarta. The trial starts in January of 2013...

In the US the use of steroids by police officers is widespread. It's particularly disturbing because in most jurisdictions the use and purchase of steroids for purposes of beefing up is illegal (even a felony).

The rationale for banning over the counter medications is usually that they contain some component which is present in some other agent used for doping purposes, and that they therefore cause problems for testing, because he who tests positive for the latter agent can protest that he was simply...

In fairness to the Spanish sporting authorities, this attitude is not peculiar to sports. There is also no political will to bust corrupt bankers who owe 300 million in back taxes on the billions they have secretly in Swiss accounts (Botin, president of Banco Santader), politicians who requalify...

Even were it the case that there were demonstrably no long term physiological performance benefits to having drugged/doped, there would be a long term benefit - for example, if the drugging/doping facilitated a career where none would have been otherwise possible - or, more realistically, if it...

An obvious problem with an amnesty: a cycling federation can order whatever amnesty it wants, but since the things that would need to be admitted constitute crimes punishable by prison in most of the relevant countries, who is going to admit anything that isn't (in effect) already obvious?

A more recent example, that is highly illustrative, is provided by Marta Dominguez, accused doper and presently a member of the Spanish Senate.

What I am rejecting is the morality tale whereby we are now paying for our irresponsibility. The vast majority of people living in Europe are not in any way directly responsible for what is going on now, even those who were foolish enough to take on mortgages they couldn't pay (I'm not one of...

I didn't realize Wiggins was Spanish. You've got to quit with the jingoistic ranting.

At a minimum the earlier doping may have facilitated a career where none would have otherwise been possible. The clean ex-doper is not innocent.

I want to explain why this is stupid jingoism. The only large country in the EU that has run budget surpluses in the last 10 years is Spain. Until the recent bank bailout on a percentage of GDP basis, Spain's public debt was less than Germany's. The story of the current economic situation is not...

While I don't disagree with the essence of your point, I don't think it's quite true that Contador and Valverde rode away in the same fashion as Landis. Landis won that stage by nearly 6 minutes (over second place Sastre), 7 or 8 over the then tour leader (who was Perreiro if I remember right)...