Berzin said:
I'll agree with you. Banning him at this point is ridiculous. The hypocrisy of the investigation, which supposedly had a couple of hundred athletes from many sports and only a couple from cycling have been punished?
I'm all for a cleaner sport, but let's have some transparency and not witch hunts. Maybe Piti should give Pat McQuaid a Pinarello. Maybe that will soften him up.
Yet again I will repeat - the main reason this has dragged on so long is because of Valverde. Quite simply he and his legal team have ran out of avenues.
You have a point in that it is a disgrace that more people have not faced sanction - however in many cases all they had were 'pseudonyms' on bloodbags.
In the cases of Basso and Scarponi they had more evidence that did not even require them matching blood bags. Both walked in to CONI maintaining their innocence and walked out hours later admitting their 'discretions'.
franciep10 said:
I read a cycling blog today where the author says that this is good for cycling but is it really does this actually help cycling I don't think so it probably does more harm than good what do you guys think
But who has harmed the sport?
If Mr. Valverde didn't go to an apartment owned by a gynecologist(who he claims to not know even though he was the team Doctor at Kelme) and have his blood extracted, have EPO added and have it stored under the name bag#18 valv piti' (which is the name of a dog that he claims to not have) and has his DNA matched to the bag of blood .... then CONI does not have a case.
Of course CONI should not have been the ones to bring this case - that was the responsibility of the Spanish Federation (RFEC), they and Valverde are the ones who have prolonged this case.
Adiós Valverde.