Cycling Quotations

[The Hitch]

Ashenden in October 2012

The reality is that one third of podium finishers since 2008 have been tainted by doping in one form or another. I just don’t get how anyone can see that as anything but a terrible indictment.
"I can’t think of any other federation who would be claiming their sport was in good shape if one third of their recent champions were tainted by doping."

 

[doperhopper]

Bruyneel got 10 year ban and produced the lamest threat ever

"I will shortly decide whether to keep up the fight or carry on and try to expose the hypocrisy of what USADA has put me and others through."

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Ashenden in October 2012

Ashenden was flat out wrong on that one. I suspect you'd be hard pushed to find a sport where at least a third of recent champions were not in some way connected doping. And you would be equally hard pushed to find a sporting federation not saying that their sport is in great shape.

He would have been correct if he had talked about champions associated with negative doping related publicity.

 

[del1962]

I gave a lot to the Tour and I have never hurt the bike. I’ve never done crap, unlike others, Guys like (Riccardo) Riccò and (Danilo) Di Luca did stupid things and they may encounter problems later, because they only have the bike in their lives

Andy Schleck

 

[Benotti69]

Floyd Landis 2013

"All I can talk about is what I know from when I was racing. For me it doesn't appear that the risk and reward structure has changed. Nor has the management of cycling. There's not a lot of reason, other than taking people at their word that anything has really changed. We've seen where 'taking people at their word' leads us."

 

[The Hitch]

More from Mike.

See page 179 of "Its not about the bike", where Armstrong says: ""The old me had weighed 175 pounds. Now I was 158, my face looked narrow and hawkish, and you could see every sinew in my legs." In the context of the book, this was post-cancer shortly before he resumed racing. 175 pounds (~79kg) vs. 158 pounds (~72kg). Later, Armstrong confirmed under oath that he had never raced at 72 kg - yet this leaner body weight has entered folklore (and Coyle's publication!) as the explanation for his improved performance. He had lied to the public about his weight loss. To quote Armstrong's agent Bill Stapleton, when questioning the motives of allegations against his friend: "He lied once, therefore it brings everything else into question".