Recent content by Sanjūrō

Seconded! Same exact thing for me. Mild concussion but otherwise totally fine. Happy to have on what I did and wouldnt want to think what would have been the case otherwise.

Yeah, me too. Like I said...

^ This. They all do it. They all have to in order to be competitive, because, the top riders and top teams all do. Its why there is omerta within the peloton. Different programs for different teams and different riders, and some do it better than others, but they're all involved with it to...

Contador's wins dont prove anything any more than his beef argument did. It does, however, suggest he was on a picture-perfect program up until the Clen incident. Whether or not for you that means he was doping all along or got there clean but got unlucky with imported beef all depends on your...

They appeal, otherwise Clenbuterol becomes in effect a drug sanctioned for use in sport.

The precedent has been set. Its the best defence going. Its been ruled plausible enough to be possible and near impossible to prove. Foolhardy now not to use it and it underscores how important it is that WADA, UCI and/or CAS take a stand, otherwise the game has changed.

+1 I'd be much happier if riders would simply come out and say it like it is - they want race radios for private communication with their team car and their riders to tactically control the race. Its not all about safety. They're using that, mostly, as a vehicle to make radios seem needed. A...

That's what I saw when I first read it. :D Possibly, although I think he'll simply change the menu and be right back up there. He's not yet out of the frying pan with appeals, however.

Not a lawyer, but semantically, there's some interesting things in here, such as when he replies to the questioner about whether or not the Indiana hospital room event took place in LA-LogicPt2, he very carefully does not answer the question. He instead says, "If it can be any clearer that I...

No, its truly sad is what it is.

The beef defense is as ridiculous as it is epic lawyerism. Reminds me of OJ Simpson's glove.

+1 To answer the OP, nothing will ever convince me of a truly clean sport, since there will always be new methods, new workarounds and those willing to try them, along with those who feel they must just to keep up with the many contenders who do. Do all cyclists and athletes dope? No, of...

A perfectly logical stance for any of us outside the system. My belief is still that pretty much all of any contenders or those seeking results dope in some fashion or another, playing the cycling equivalent of Russian Roulette, playing the system and being more or less a slave to and victim of...

I dont blame Ricco, or I should phrase it more as, I dont place the full burden of blame on him. I think this whole thing is more indicative of the pressures of the system, and the scope of actual, unreported doping within the peloton, that a rider feels he must go through such lengths and...