auscyclefan94 said:How do I believe in this sport?
Your faith in Saint Cadel keeps you strong.
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auscyclefan94 said:How do I believe in this sport?
auscyclefan94 said:Let's just clear something up, Ballan and Santambrogio are on charges with reference to LAMPRE not BMC. This is the first doping charge for BMC. Lets keep that in mind.
craig1985 said:Isn't Ochowitz close to Armstrong?
Mellow Velo said:You are right, BMC are not Lampre...............they are Phonak.
I'd guess their wildcards are OK for the moment, but on a knife edge.
One more whiff and it won't matter where the bad smell omes from.
I'm more concerned that Cadel's mountain domestiques just took a major hit.
TF looked good in the Dolomites, yesterday. I watched the stage last night.
Now he's a gonna, before they've even started.
Yes. Give him a Google...
issoisso said:If CSF and Androni didn't get their invites pulled with their recent positives, BMC won't either. No worries there.
auscyclefan94 said:3 people from the phonak days. Well a lot of you think this sport is pretty much fully doped so why does it matter anymore.
LOL, today in Aus we have had one of the biggest sporting scandals in Australian history. Once I found out about this it just felt like a punch to the guts.
auscyclefan94 said:3 people from the phonak days. Well a lot of you think this sport is pretty much fully doped so why does it matter anymore.
LOL, today in Aus we have had one of the biggest sporting scandals in Australian history. Once I found out about this it just felt like a punch to the guts.
timbat said:Jetzt Herr Frei ist nicht so frei zu Fahrrad rennen!
A few St Kilda AFL players would be nervous - Brian Waldron is the supposed architect of the Melbourne Storm salary labyrinth.craig1985 said:I never knew you like rugby league. I follow the Storm, and my jaw hit the ground, but with their squad, I guess it isn't too shocking.
timbat said:Jetzt Herr Frei ist nicht so frei zu Fahrrad rennen!
Libertine Seguros said:Grammatisch falsch. Jetzt ist Herr Frei nicht so frei sein Fahrrad zu rennen.
Verb geht zur Position Zwei, nach eine Temporal (z.B. "jetzt"). "Fahrrad rennen" ist trennbar, deshalb geht die "zu-Konstruktion" zwischen "Fahrrad" und "rennen".
auscyclefan94 said:Let's just clear something up, Ballan and Santambrogio are on charges with reference to LAMPRE not BMC. This is the first doping charge for BMC. Lets keep that in mind.
craig1985 said:I never knew you like rugby league. I follow the Storm, and my jaw hit the ground, but with their squad, I guess it isn't too shocking.
Libertine Seguros said:Grammatisch falsch. Jetzt ist Herr Frei nicht so frei sein Fahrrad zu rennen.
Verb geht zur Position Zwei, nach eine Temporal (z.B. "jetzt"). "Fahrrad rennen" ist trennbar, deshalb geht die "zu-Konstruktion" zwischen "Fahrrad" und "rennen".
Ferminal said:I know you're from Melbourne, but did you genuinely follow the storm?
It's funny, for me today's events just highlight that it's not just Cycling or Soccer, EVERY professional sport has individuals/teams lining up to bend/break the rules to give them a better chance of success.
FKLance said:Evans and maybe Hincapie have their own high quality sources (Evans probably through Sassi!) but the rest are going relatively clean..
auscyclefan94 said:Last year I went to 5 games and each year I have followed them more. Melbourne is a massive sporting capital in the world. To lose our main rugby team (they will fold imo) who were opening a new stadium up with a new match is devastating
Parrot23 said:Good point, thanks!
But anything to do with Phonak is bad news.
Cadel should know better (and esp. the dangers of his team hiring folks whom he desperately NEEDS in GTs but then they get busted, and he's left "hanging in the wind", "holding the bag", whatever, e.g., CE on Alpe d'Huez vs. Sastre, and being tag-teamed by Valverde/Conti at last year's Dauphine).
We've seen this pattern before (both the Kohl loss, and the Phonak saga). Gotta be smart off the bike (who you associate with) AND during races.
this_is_edie said:Yep. And they also brought on board soigneur Freddy Viane from the phonak days too.
Parrot23 said:Look at Basso, his other rider now. It's painful to watch Basso (see the pics of him at last year's Vuelta, absolutely turning himself inside out and NOT winning anything). He's not the same rider that smashed the Giro field one year (what, by 10 mins). Sassi's riders are clean
Parrot23 said:Thanks for your good points, but only one thing I really doubt, the Sassi angle.
Look at Basso, his other rider now. It's painful to watch Basso (see the pics of him at last year's Vuelta, absolutely turning himself inside out and NOT winning anything). He's not the same rider that smashed the Giro field one year (what, by 10 mins).
auscyclefan94 said:I think BMC should pull out of the tour. I am shattered and furious!
JPM London said:I'm with you on the Sassi angle... I think it was in the recent Basso interview that he said Sassi's condition ot work with him was exactly that he was clean. He had to conform to a lot of blood testing and I think they actually also publish his numbers (haven't checked though) on either Basso's or the training centre's website. By the way it's that same interview where Basso said he was keen to show that he could win clean sorta indicating that he did indeed more than "plan" to dope back in the OP days...