skidmark said:What do you think would be a more effective and airtight system? What kind of 'overhaul' would avoid such excuses?
Nice little question for a Friday night. Will need the weekend, but will come up with something.
skidmark said:What do you think would be a more effective and airtight system? What kind of 'overhaul' would avoid such excuses?
Dazed and Confused said:Ballan never tested postive.
Where are all the "evidence first" posters?
the sceptic said:Probably busy trolling the Walsh thread.
I am eagerly awaiting their thoughts on Ballan though.
gooner said:Crikey, I must have thought Lance was still clean until the Reasoned Decision.
snipped here and here...
gooner said:Coming from you, I'm not surprised(once again) to hear this sweeping idiotic prejudice comment.
Uneducated view.
BroDeal said:Coming from you, I'm not surprised (once again) to hear that you think common sense and thinking for yourself by piecing together basic and obvious facts is morally offensive.
Absolutely and utterly stupid view.
gooner said:I look forward to ANOTHER post where you mention Brits, this, that and the other and bring things across national lines(once again).
BroDeal said:If muppets act like muppets then other people tend treat them as muppets. I look forward to the defense ad absurdum by you and the rest of the Sky homers for riders other than those on Sky. I won't holding my breath for it to happen, though.
gooner said:Rewind and play again.
When in disagreement accuse all of being fanboys. Nice but predictable strawman that gets thrown around here.
gooner said:Expect to be taken up on the tosh you spout, where you continuously use sweeping generalised statements against countries.
BroDeal said:LOL. Sky fantards refuse to admit they are fantards. News at 11. Looks like they are now using another of the Armstrong fanboyisms.
Next you will be denying that your sole interest in posting to this forum is to come up with ever more ludicrous excuses for Sky's obvious doping.
Your inferiority complex is showing.
skidmark said:What do you think would be a more effective and airtight system? What kind of 'overhaul' would avoid such excuses?
Dazed and Confused said:Ballan never tested postive.
Where are all the "evidence first" posters?
martinvickers said:I'm thinking
1 a taped explicit admission from the rider
2.an explicit accusation from the dealing pharmacist
probably counts as concrete evidence, myself. Regardless of nationality.
Boy, some of you guys really have what amounts to an anti-anglo fixation, dontya...
Dazed and Confused said:Not much loved for Horner either....
Dazed and Confused said:Not much loved for Horner either....
pastronef said:Lampre bike theft...
Daniel Benson @dnlbenson 4h
"Don't let those thieving scumbags make big business from their crime." Are they talking about bike theft or Mantova?
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D-Queued said:This may finally get interesting:
Phone taps admissable as evidence in Lampre trial
Then again, it is just a pre-Christmas tease until the trial resumes on January 24.
Can someone explain to me, though, how all of these folks are alleged to be involved in a comprehensive doping ring in 2008 and 2009?
Doping stopped in 2006. Didn't they get the memo, or does it really take that long to translate the memo into an Italian dialect?
"...Many of the recorded phone conversations are reported to have been in local dialect rather than standard Italian, meaning that deciphering the precise wording has been a laborious task."
Dave.
just try and imagine anybody both willing and capable to invest significantly in antidoping.Benotti69 said:.. That has not changed and it will take a monumental effort and injection of money into anti doping to change that. No one wants to spend money catching cheats!
sniper said:just try and imagine anybody both willing and capable to invest significantly in antidoping.
i can't.
IOC?
investing in antidoping should be a national health issue and thus a task for national governments, but we all know how governments benefit from the international success of national athletes.
Spain, Brittain, Germany.
Nice recent examples of suppression rather than facilitation of antidoping on a national level.