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Benotti69 said:
Cecchini worked on Aristoea for 1 year with Ferrari yet claims he doesn't know him and met him once.

Take what those in the sport say about their doping involvement with a grain of salt.
Do you have a source for that claim, that Cecchini claims he doesn't know Ferrari, claims he only met Ferrari the once? Because, again, from what I have seen, Cecchini does not deny that he and Ferrari were both part of the Ariostea set-up. Of course, the simple answer here is that you can't read, that you read a quote saying Cecchini claims not to know Conconi, claims to have met Conconi only the once, only you weren't paying attention when you were reading and decided it was talking about Ferrari, not Conconi.

".......... I also wasn't in close contact with Ferrari. We worked together for one season with Ariostea. Our contact was dry and business related but with mutual respect."

http://cyclingheroes.tripod.com/cyclingheroes.english2/id725.html
 
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Benotti69 said:
fmk_RoI said:
Benotti69 said:
Cecchini worked on Aristoea for 1 year with Ferrari yet claims he doesn't know him and met him once.

Take what those in the sport say about their doping involvement with a grain of salt.
Do you have a source for that claim, that Cecchini claims he doesn't know Ferrari, claims he only met Ferrari the once? Because, again, from what I have seen, Cecchini does not deny that he and Ferrari were both part of the Ariostea set-up. Of course, the simple answer here is that you can't read, that you read a quote saying Cecchini claims not to know Conconi, claims to have met Conconi only the once, only you weren't paying attention when you were reading and decided it was talking about Ferrari, not Conconi.

".......... I also wasn't in close contact with Ferrari. We worked together for one season with Ariostea. Our contact was dry and business related but with mutual respect."

http://cyclingheroes.tripod.com/cyclingheroes.english2/id725.html
Which is not, Ben, "claims he doesn't know him and met him once," now is it?
 
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".......... I also wasn't in close contact with Ferrari. We worked together for one season with Ariostea. Our contact was dry and business related but with mutual respect."

http://cyclingheroes.tripod.com/cyclingheroes.english2/id725.html
I don't at this moment have access to my copy of Lance Armstrong's War (aka "Tour de Force"), but I am pretty convinced that it mentions that Ferrari and Cecchini worked together in the same team from 1990 until 1992 (more than one season). Those type minor errors in dates are common and not particularly damning, but I recall that the book describes how they used to compete against each other riding bicycles and Cecchini always won and Ferrari even could tell the amount of watts that Cecchini produced, so therefore it appears they had more than "dry" and "business related" relationship. I see no reason for Ferrari to lie about the connection, even when he described something like that they hadn't been in touch for a few years.

That is still only a subjective opinion from Cecchini about their relationship, and I fully understand why someone would like to distance himself from the radioactive Ferrari.

Here is an interesting old news item CN:
More recently, according to La Gazzetta dello Sport, Hamilton's coach Dr. Luigi "Cecco" Cecchini of Lucca, Italy, is also newly implicated in the Puerto dossier. Although Cecchini has denied any involvement in Puerto, Dr. Fuentes has been quoted as saying "Cecco is a friend of mine".
http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news/2007/may07/may01news2

There is no context on where and why Fuentes made the quotation about the Italian. And these "attributed to", "some newsreport claim that" and "is alleged to have said"- type claims with no specific source have a bad habit of getting a part of the folklore, accurate or not after they have been published a few times.
 
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fmk_RoI said:
Benotti69 said:
fmk_RoI said:
Benotti69 said:
Cecchini worked on Aristoea for 1 year with Ferrari yet claims he doesn't know him and met him once.

Take what those in the sport say about their doping involvement with a grain of salt.
Do you have a source for that claim, that Cecchini claims he doesn't know Ferrari, claims he only met Ferrari the once? Because, again, from what I have seen, Cecchini does not deny that he and Ferrari were both part of the Ariostea set-up. Of course, the simple answer here is that you can't read, that you read a quote saying Cecchini claims not to know Conconi, claims to have met Conconi only the once, only you weren't paying attention when you were reading and decided it was talking about Ferrari, not Conconi.

".......... I also wasn't in close contact with Ferrari. We worked together for one season with Ariostea. Our contact was dry and business related but with mutual respect."

http://cyclingheroes.tripod.com/cyclingheroes.english2/id725.html
Which is not, Ben, "claims he doesn't know him and met him once," now is it?

Get pedantic all you like, while posting and tweeting insults at the same time. Meh :rolleyes:
 
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Aragon said:
I don't at this moment have access to my copy of Lance Armstrong's War (aka "Tour de Force"), but I am pretty convinced that it mentions that Ferrari and Cecchini worked together in the same team from 1990 until 1992 (more than one season).
I'll offer some of the quotes, with the caveats that Coyle got some things wrong
Ferrari was here because he had what was widely acknowledged as one of the two most brilliant minds in cycling. The other belonged to fellow Italian Dr. Luigi Cecchini, who trains several of Armstrong’s top rivals. Ferrari and Cecchini, former colleagues, were usually described in the media as “notorious.” Exactly what notorious meant was difficult to say, but it seemed based on three qualificiations: (1) Ferrari and Cecchini, who each worked as independent contractors, had trained many extremely successful cyclists; (2) Italian authorities and the European cycling media had raised questions over whether they had used entirely legal means to do so; and (3) it was a compelling notion. Can any reader remain uninterested in a story that mentions one of the planet’s best athletes being advised by “the notorious Doctor Ferrari”?
And then there's this:
As it happened, Ferrari was currently on trial on three counts of doping-related offenses in Italian court (charges against Cecchini had been dropped in 2001 due to lack of evidence).
And this:
Ferrari was Conconi’s prize student, and wrote his thesis on anaerobic threshold; Cecchini studied at Ferrara for one year. They were also cyclists. On their bikes, the two set out to explore the territory of this threshold, to investigate factors like hematocrit, the percentage of oxygen-carrying red blood cells; or glycogen stores, or lung capacity—all of them potential levers to nudge that holy number upward.
I do think Coyle is wrong on Cecchini studying at Ferrara for a year - or at least no one seems to be able to produce any evidence he did, though it has become accepted wisdom. Going back to Ariostea - one season or three seasons, is he lying, I don't know. I think Ferrari was with Ariostea from 1990 through 1992 and I know Cecchini was with Ariostea in 1992 but I don't know when Ferrati brought him in. It may be in the Riis book, but I'll have to leave checking that for another day. I do know that I have in the past failed to come up with anything like a good timeline of the teams Cecchini was officially linked with (whereas I was able to do that for Ferrari and Fuentes).
Aragon said:
Those type minor errors in dates are common and not particularly damning, but I recall that the book describes how they used to compete against each other riding bicycles and Cecchini always won and Ferrari even could tell the amount of watts that Cecchini produced, so therefore it appears they had more than "dry" and "business related" relationship. I see no reason for Ferrari to lie about the connection, even when he described something like that they hadn't been in touch for a few years.
I know of a story from Eugenio Capodacqua about a race up the Stelvio that involved lots of luminaries of the era, including even Hein Verbruggen. Elsewhere what I've read suggests a masters circuit that they competed in (Conconi, Ferrari and Cecchini all seem to have used themselves as a research tool, but then so too did Willy Voet).

Going back to Coyle, there's this:
Cecchini, the chubby scion who had come to cycling to lose weight, transformed himself, logging 50,000 kilometers in his peak years, the equivalent of riding a Tour de France each month. Ferrari, the former runner, wasn’t too far behind, pushing 320 watts at threshold and weighing a mere 67 kilos. When he and Ferrari raced together, however, Cecchini usually won. “He was superstrong,” said Ferrari, who does not use the term lightly. “Super, superstrong, eh?” Conconi was no slouch, either, defeating far younger cyclists in hill-climbing races until he was well into his sixties.
I may not be looking hard enough but I have found no reference to Ferrari guesstimating Cecchini's wattage.
 
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@fmk-Rol You wrote an article where you yourself claim Cecchini was one of the Ferrara boys?

"To give some perspective on how much esteem there was for Conconi's clan in Ferrara - which, over the years, included other well known doctors, such as Luigi Cecchini, Michele Ferrari, Aldo Sassi and Carlos Santuccione - look at what happened in Banesto when Sabino Padilla left the team. Francesco Conconi had worked with Miguel Induráin in the eighties and it was to Italy that José Miguel Echávarri, Induráin's directeur sportif, looked after Padilla left, giving the people at Ferrara this glowing reference:

"I am seeking collaboration with [Ilario] Casoni, [Nicola] Alfieri and [Marcello] Lodi [another three of Conconi's protégés at Ferrara] at least for a team get together which will be held in Palma di Majorca in February [1996]. There will hopefully be some tests in Milan followed by a week at Pamplona. At the present time the Italians lead the world in sports medicine and training techniques. A void has been left by Sabino Padilla, the medic who has left Banesto after so many years to take a position with the football club Atletico Bilbao. Sabino, who was Induráin's personal trainer, left without even mapping out the [1996] season. So we have to find a new medic, either in Spain or in Italy, but probably from the University of Ferrara. As of now Casoni, Alfieri and Lodi are being considered as our consultants."

So, again, why had Conconi proposed the H-test in 1996? Was it at the behest of the UCI, who needed a fig-leaf behind which they could hide? Could it have been because the competitive advantage he had been able to offer Italian cyclists had been wiped out by most of the rest of the peloton turning to EPO too? Was it because his protégés - particularly Cecchini, Ferrari and Santuccione - were selling their services to the highest bidders, regardless of nationality? Who really knows. All we know is it happened. And what was going on in the sport at the time it happened."

Talking about Capodacqua did you use him to link Conconi to Cecchini? You do know his suspicion also comes from the various police investigation into Conconi defrauding CONI?
 
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ThePopeOfDope said:
I'm done arguing with you.
Liar liar pants on fire.
ThePopeOfDope said:
@fmk-Rol You wrote an article where you yourself claim Cecchini was one of the Ferrara boys?
Guess what? I was wrong when I wrote that. In the six years since I wrote that article I've learned new things. It happens. With some.
ThePopeOfDope said:
Talking about Capodacqua did you use him to link Conconi to Cecchini? You do know his suspicion also comes from the various police investigation into Conconi defrauding CONI?
His knowledge of the Stelvio hill climb comes from having been there. Do try and learn to read sniper, there's a good lad.
 
It seems our Spartacus is not so keen on Lappartient's focus on motor doping. The four time ITT world champion, three time winner of Paris-Roubaix, three time winner of the Ronde van Vlaanderen, two time ITT Olympic gold medallist, one time winner of Milan-Sanremo, and the man most associated with the use of motors says:
‘The president has to work at how he can combine the efforts of different organisations in cycling and the teams, for instance better cooperation between ASO and the UCI. That’s more important than just doping, as cycling will sink if this foundation isn’t there. It’s good to look at doping or motor doping, but these things cost money. We have to look also at how money can come into the sport, not only for the UCI but for the teams, and for the riders.'
 
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Benotti69 said:
fmk_RoI said:
Benotti69 said:
fmk_RoI said:
Benotti69 said:
Cecchini worked on Aristoea for 1 year with Ferrari yet claims he doesn't know him and met him once.

Take what those in the sport say about their doping involvement with a grain of salt.
Do you have a source for that claim, that Cecchini claims he doesn't know Ferrari, claims he only met Ferrari the once? Because, again, from what I have seen, Cecchini does not deny that he and Ferrari were both part of the Ariostea set-up. Of course, the simple answer here is that you can't read, that you read a quote saying Cecchini claims not to know Conconi, claims to have met Conconi only the once, only you weren't paying attention when you were reading and decided it was talking about Ferrari, not Conconi.

".......... I also wasn't in close contact with Ferrari. We worked together for one season with Ariostea. Our contact was dry and business related but with mutual respect."

http://cyclingheroes.tripod.com/cyclingheroes.english2/id725.html
Which is not, Ben, "claims he doesn't know him and met him once," now is it?

Get pedantic all you like, while posting and tweeting insults at the same time. Meh :rolleyes:
calling someone pedantic after making up lies is some going
 
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Escarabajo said:
Le breton said:
Escarabajo said:
He sonds like a little kid. He gets mad at Gaimon and then challenges him to ride bike with him. Really Cancellara.

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/cancellara-challenges-gaimon-to-a-race-after-mechanical-doping-spat/

I would draw a completely different conclusion from the article you quoted.
Hi Le Breton,
Please do explain. I am reading it again and I am still missing the other meaning.
It looks to me that your point would have been valid (acting like a little kid) if Cancellara had set-up that challenge to Gaimon out of the blue, but that isn't the case at all. The 8 challenges already existed and he just seized on the opportunity to tackle Gaimon.

While he obviously would defeat Gaimon on raw power, we all know that such a victory would say nothing about what is at issue here and the 2008 and 2010 races where Fabian has been accused by some of using a motor.

PS a few days later : Cancellara's sense of humour obviously didn't travel well, or maybe got lost in translation.
 
Spartacus and the vision thing:
"The foundations are the problem: the UCI, the big organisers, the teams and riders. There’s a lack of unity and a global vision for the future. It’s a bordello. The politics of the sport don’t work and so everyone suffers. Everyone just thinks about what they can earn in the short term. Yet cycling, for the emotions it gives people, has enormous potential. Sadly that’s not used in the right way."
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/cancellara-cycling-lacks-a-global-vision-its-a-mess/

And on motors:
"I don’t think someone has used one because there’s a chance you’d get caught and exposed. I was always strong and my legs are my motor. There’s lot of envy out there and when you win they take aim at you. But I’m happy with what I did for the good of cycling."
 
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Merckx index said:
Gaimon accepts Cancellara's challenge, says "I'll drop you at your own bike race."
It's funny, to the point that one wonders if it's an inside-joke between the two of them, at this point.
Is this match-up on Ladbroke's or PaddyPower yet?
The 'motor-doping' is a touchy subject for Cancellara, but it was more likely his manager that started the public sparring.

That's nice to see the two retirees settling the 'grudge' in a good-mannered way, for entertainment purposes.
These Cancellara mini-races are like 15-kilometer hill climbs, and if Gaimon gets to pick his preferred race venue, then you have to like Gaimon's chances. His power profile and recent training will make it tough on Cancellara.

So then, supposing Gaimon wins, what would be 'proved' by this ?
 
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Merckx index said:
Gaimon accepts Cancellara's challenge, says "I'll drop you at your own bike race."
It's funny, to the point that one wonders if it's an inside-joke between the two of them, at this point.
Is this match-up on Ladbroke's or PaddyPower yet?
The 'motor-doping' is a touchy subject for Cancellara, but it was more likely his manager that started the public sparring.

That's nice to see the two retirees settling the 'grudge' in a good-mannered way, for entertainment purposes.
These Cancellara mini-races are like 15-kilometer hill climbs, and if Gaimon gets to pick his preferred race venue, then you have to like Gaimon's chances. His power profile and recent training will make it tough on Cancellara.

So then, supposing Gaimon wins, what would be 'proved' by this ?

That Spartacus used a motor back in the day. Obviously ;)
 
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ClassicomanoLuigi said:
hrotha said:
This is the dumbest thing that has happened in pro cycling in a long while, and that says a lot.
Sagan's body tattoo was pretty bad.
But yeah, there is not much dignity remaining in this.
Gaimon's freak-show personality is insufferable, I don't think I could deal with having someone like that as a teammate
???

Another one than the one on his arm?
 
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Netserk said:
ClassicomanoLuigi said:
hrotha said:
This is the dumbest thing that has happened in pro cycling in a long while, and that says a lot.
Sagan's body tattoo was pretty bad.
But yeah, there is not much dignity remaining in this.
Gaimon's freak-show personality is insufferable, I don't think I could deal with having someone like that as a teammate
???

Another one than the one on his arm?
Oh yes. You need to go and have a look for it. I can't do its awfulness justice with words.
 
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ClassicomanoLuigi said:
hrotha said:
This is the dumbest thing that has happened in pro cycling in a long while, and that says a lot.
Sagan's body tattoo was pretty bad.
But yeah, there is not much dignity remaining in this.
Gaimon's freak-show personality is insufferable, I don't think I could deal with having someone like that as a teammate

Sagan's tattoo? Huh.

ohhhhh - I shouldn't have Googled that...

Yeah, the Gaimon/Cancellara thing is really childish. As in playground level dumb. As far as cycling and dignity go, I still have flashbacks of Rock Racing rolling up to the start line. Nothing says class like paying women to dress in tight jeans, heels and dark shades to stand around a bunch of cyclists.

John Swanson
 
So, this isn't really related to Spartacus, but it ties in with the convo here about Cecchini and how Cecchini wasn't in it for the money and often worked pro bono (if some of his clients are to be believed and for a few peeps herabouts this isn't poss as those clients are clearly lying liars who lie about everything apart from the few bits that fit a particular narrative and so must be true). Anywho, the Aderlass trial is happening in Germany, and Mark Schmidt has just told the court that he never made a dime out of doping.
"I did not make a profit from doping," he said in a statement read by his lawyers in court.
Ok, so not making a profit is not the same as doing it pro bono, as Cecco is alleged by some of his clients to have done it. It's sometimes said that if you added up all the profits of the airline industry since the days of the Wright brothers you'd get a loss. Or look at the CEO of the US, with so many losses to write off he doesn't have to pay taxes. Not making a profit isn't quite doing it for free. But it's an interesting line to enquire about. If Cecco wasn't making any money and if Schmidt wasn't making any money, will we one day find out that Ferrari too didn't profit from it all? The whole of the way we think about doping would have to change...