Recent content by veji11

It all points to the fact that only outright prohibition of a substance can prevent circumvention of the rules. I have read in other forums from pro riders themselves that a very important part of the peloton, if not a majority, happily puffs away... Some might call me a nasty anti-poor...

This bit just makes me cry.. The whole point of antidoping is that unless you demonstrate that the finding is consistent with therapeutic dosage in your specific situation by recreating conditions for a test, you are banned.. This is how it works.... If from now on the onus of proof changes...

A very sad moment for anti-doping indeed. Just as in some RL cases, dangers of bankruptcy coming from litigation by someone with lots more money leads to a legitimate case being dropped. We will remember this moment as 1/ showing that WADA has no teeth, and the UCI as well 2/ legitimising the...

Re: Re: Not to start a debate but isn't then a rate the giro thread problematic when at the heart of the matter is the very provisional character of the result ? There should at least have been an express caveat in the thread. The rule separating clinic matters and other matters is good one...

Because the end result is a nightmare for our sport, it gets a 1... simple. Collective cowardice could be lived with when luck meant that Christopher Froome was behind and despite doing his best not competing for the win, à la Contador 2011 on the Tour de France. The revolution of the 19th stage...

Exactly. The only thing worse than a rotten system is a presumably serious and clean system so complicated that it allows rotten people with money and lawyers to, you know, breeze through unscathed...

Nah, Lappartien is just f****ng stuck in this case. The rules the UCI itself put in place are a just the worse type of legal pot pourri, they must have been advised by a super expensive law firm at the time that put in place something that allows maximal leeway for super expensive lawyers to...

There is no single way for him to be on the tour. Followers have to understand that. Aso and the Tour went through Armstrong hell. There is no way they will let Froome get a 5th victory at the Tour after what happened. They will use every single possible trick in the bag to prevent it, and the...

likely a big break after the Dauphine and then the Vuelta as a first GT of his career.

It's a bit heavy for my taste (the lines around the ribs + the asymetric sleeves might have been too much) but let's see in race. It could have been an away jersey for a french national team in any sport btw.

Froome is tainted beyond possible participation to the tour de France anyway. All other races are different, but the Tour de France had the Armstrong Trauma and ASO has a business to run. My bet is that Froome will never again race at the tour de France as a potential winner. Sure he might be...

This is pathetic and terrifying.. no wonder many look at the british cycling / sky ensemble like a tax-evasion-specialist-lawyered up version of the DDR swimming federation... With their astounding results in the last 10 years in cycling, out of basically thin air, culminating with multiple tour...

Wanty deserved it. Vital get a chance to prove their mettle for 2019. They will have to focus on Europe tour at this stage, but they still get the Dauphiné anyway.

Re: Honestly the "bad" there.. This a really solid national champ jersey.

Re: Re: Geee guys, you are pretty harsh, compared to some horrible national jerseys we have been seing lately this is classy, sober, elegant. The red on the jersey is a bit bigger to give more overall balance with the black legs when standin, but from atop with the back curving the jersey will...