Recent content by ultimobici

Anyone, be they a doper or vehemently anti doping, would be a little put out by a visit from a tester on Christmas Day.

Not British, Irish. Akin to calling a Canadian American. Get it right!

You still have to go a long way to make amends for Kylie & Jason, Men at Work etc. The only Aussie acts worth anything other than Midnight Oil are dead. What all this crap has to do with doping is beyond me though

To be fair,to Tricky Dickie, CN probably use the same standards in translation as they do in proofreading. Virenque is bang on the money and, as a former pro, is eminently qualified to call it the way he did. Schleck was very talented and didn't win anywhere near as much as that talent...

Which Millar - Robert or David?

But not in Europe, he was reduced to riding crits on a Mickey Mouse team.

To the bolded, if the US riders that year were riding for the US championship that day, as I have read several times, as well as paying their own way, then Lemond's actions are both understandable and correct. As for Boyer's later actions are concerned, it's a matter of public record

The Madone is an insignificant bump in the Cote d'Azur. It's not a hard climb at all, far from it. What it is is an ideal climb for assessing one's form that is convenient if one lives in Nice as Armstrong did.

All the winking to the camera as well as the moto grab reminded me of Ricco. Just saying....

A little aside about Trek I find it funny that Trek, having severed ties with Armstrong, still uses anagrams of Madone for its new models. Surely they'd want to start afresh?

I disagree. Lemond has consistently opposed doping but I think he feels no need to boil it down to a attacking personalities rather propose methods to combat it. He seems to offer up solutions rather than entering into recriminations. The trouble with Armstrong was he couldn't leave Lemond...

Lemond has always been consistent in his attitude. He wasn't anti Armstrong until 2001. Hi comments that year were seized upon by Armstrong and the whole "war" began. Lemond only went on the offensive, for want of a better term, after being repeatedly attacked by Armstrong and his cronies...

How is this any different to most countries? Is the US any better? Is the UK? Germany, Spain or Belgium? Nope. They just conceal it better.

Just because a paralegal does the work doesn't mean that the law firm doesn't charge. They just charge at a lower rate!

The problem with this is Armstrong was riding his first TdFs when the use of EPO was in its infancy whereas Ullrich's rise was several years later.