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From 2008... Tiernan-Locke looked to be on the fast track to a pro contract. He came flying out of the blocks the following year with CC Etupes — one of the biggest clubs in France and one with a direct line into Tour de France teams — when he won the amateur Tour du Haut Var at the end of...

Ackowledge away, we need to know who these people are if they exist, otherwise how can we ackowledge them, is there any proof that the ones mentioned above have any financial interest? If not, then who?

I think another thing people reading this article will take from it is that, this time, Floyd is telling the truth, I think that's maybe what Kimmage was aiming at, restoring the credibility of a man who's been stated as having no credibility. I goes into the fact that he's not profiting from...

The total lack of interest in an Olympic medal later in his career now makes sense, which I'm sure he would have loved, the IOC are more expensive/trickier/impossible (delete as appropriate) to pay off and bury things than the UCI. Look what happened to Tyler. Do Olympic test samples get kept...

It's there now, loads of links, making sure they don't state anything directly but definetely pointing you towards the balance of evidence and their source saying, "it's only a matter of time". Not sure how available the BBC site is outside the UK...

As everything we saw from the Landis emails gets slowly proven to be true, it makes you think that the allegations of a cover up of doping cases may be revealed soon too. So how exactly does the UCI work, I couldn't find out. Who votes the officials into power, can we remove Pat somehow by...

As a direct note to the guy who started this thread, Darryl I have absolutely no doubt that had the BC system been in place when you were a lad, they'd have held onto you kicking and screaming. When you were at that age I expect the most BC gave you was a possibly crash damaged & ill fitting...

I know too many folks who've been partially through, or within the system and never heard a thing from them about anything dodgy, even the ones who were bitter about being pushed out, the ones who had an axe to grind would surely have been liable to 'spill the beans'. I'm pretty sure there's no...

A cheating sports stars may have resulted in more cyclists in the US & Canada, but the world is bigger than North America and other potential Tour winners from other countries during those 7 years would have resulted in more people getting interested in cycling elsewhere. So suggesting that...

If what Landis was saying in the emails is slowly being proved to be the truth, how can the UCI survive this? Are we all going to have a different world body on our race licences or will they just eject the fat cats and become a democratic organisation, I can't see any other way.

If you manage to bypass the time it takes to acquire fitness, there's a much larger scope to train the skills and technique required for football. Doping would be incredibly valuable to footballers, there's only so much time in the day, if you spend most of that on skills you're onto a winner...

Even if Contador had ingested the clen accidentally, he still had an advantage, when an overall time difference of 0.001% decides a Tour, even tiny advantages make a difference, so with knowledge or without, he gained that advantage. But I think most people have accepted the reality of what...

There is a connection, from the Amgen website... "also has joined forces with the Lance Armstrong Foundation" http://wwwext.amgen.com/media/breakaway_stand_behind_you.html

Can't work in a commercial based sport. Imagine I start a bike company and to push my new brand, I supply bikes to a low level Continental bike team. I have little of no knowledge of the riders involved but the DS says everybody's clean, turns out they're not, is this my fault as a sponsor? It...

Seems to me the 'usual' routes for the UCI to make decisions on teams and other possible misconduct from riders is now closed, due to the various enquiries going on right now. So looks to me like Riis has run out of options to protect his riders. Some of the key staff are now leaving (Julich)...