Recent content by pataphysician

According to cycling news, as well as every other article I have read, the Japanese (riders, Media, and a doping official) were asked to leave by the race organizers citing security concerns. Pat McQuaid said they were expelled. I haven't seen a single article describing Japanese riders...

The UCI and Pat Mcquaid should be embarrassed the Japanese are being sent home from the tour of China due to the current political relations between japan and china. Wether it is China expelling the Japanese or Japanese riders being sent home because of safety issues, the UCI should shut down...

Shaming. If a rider fails a test, the entire team has a syringe superimposed over the main sponser logo on jerseys, team bus and bikes etc. for a full calendar year. or if you fail a test you have to ride an old steel bike for a full season

The Onion put these out as the "Floyd Landis Edition" I hope they re-release them as the "Lance Armstrong Definitive Edition"

I think it would be great for the protour to find a way to counteract the specialization and have the all best of the sport at the starting and finishing lines for the major tours. I have always thought the LA method of focusing only one tour was bad for the sport. It's kind of like letting a...

It would also be interesting to see a team set up a placebo doping program. The team doctor could inject the riders with saline while telling them that it was the newest undetectable product. the riders would feel charged and pass all of their tests.

just read about rasmussen wanting mexican citizenship to ride Worlds in future years. do you think he would actually have to go to mexico to apply or would this trick work again?

I suppose i should have said for all results since the tour or just for the the tour itself.

Would a positive in this retest actually void the results for the intermediate time or just for that specific event?

i was thinking more along the lines of in a car accident and didn't realize that doctors gave a banned painkiller. three days later failed an out of competition test for the painkiller and receive a suspension. I wouldn't want to pay multiple times my salary for something like that. if the...

the contract would say "convicted of murder". With the number of innocent people who have been exonerated after years in prison, i wouldn't agree to that, particularly if i had years left on a multi-year contract that didn't include that provision. If in the next contract negotiation they...

he may have doped or may not have doped, but i wouldn't attach any significance to him not signing the anti-doping contract. If you and your lawyer/agent sat down with a team's gm and lawyer and worked out a contract would you at a later date sign a new document that opened you up to huge...

The real question is where he will post the results: his website or Francesco del Ponte's.

If guys are coming out of retirement maybe Bjarne, Big Mig and Greg Lemond can hop back on the bike for a reunion of living, non banned winners since 1990.

if you are calling out riders for national sins list should read: but it is stupid to do in the first place.