http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/dekker-to-provide-information-to-wada
If you were a DS or rider with Dekker on Rabobank you should just come clean now.
If you were a DS or rider with Dekker on Rabobank you should just come clean now.
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Race Radio said:http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/dekker-to-provide-information-to-wada
If you were a DS or rider with Dekker on Rabobank you should just come clean now.
Dekker_Tifosi said:Problem is rabobank were not involved.
Dekker was probably working on own accord, and he said in his documentary the rumors about italy and austria are funny to him "people should search closer to home". So probably some Dutch/Belgian doping ring excists or excisted
Race Radio said:Nobody still at Rabobank but former DS's and riders were.
Which one will be the first to use "Bitter"?
masking_agent said:I'm afraid this may turn out to be yet another scenario of his word against whomever he tells on.
How is this different from what Landis and Hamilton said of you know who ?
We are expecting big news, we want big news, but will disappointed once again, with a "he said, she said" scenario , without any evidence to back any claims. If he does start naming, his demise will be a quick one.
Cloxxki said:I must add that it's significant he first sat out his 2 years, and didn't bargain for anything. If anything, he's going to get tested more thoroughly, if his info brings forth any new knowledge. Way to be sure you stay clean, have the testers up to date with what you're up to.
Cloxxki said:I must add that it's significant he first sat out his 2 years, and didn't bargain for anything. If anything, he's going to get tested more thoroughly, if his info brings forth any new knowledge. Way to be sure you stay clean, have the testers up to date with what you're up to.
come on, he is pulling a page from Millar's101Cloxxki said:I must add that it's significant he first sat out his 2 years, and didn't bargain for anything. If anything, he's going to get tested more thoroughly, if his info brings forth any new knowledge. Way to be sure you stay clean, have the testers up to date with what you're up to.
DirtyWorks said:You are assuming the tests are aggressive and current with whatever the current PED protocol is in the peloton.
You are also assuming the UCI isn't passing the test procedures in use back to the DS's and peloton.
You are assuming a race promoter WANTS a positive at their event. They don't! So they test for stuff only an idiot would use.
If Dekker is honest, the testimony disappears in the UCI never to be seen again. It would be nice if law enforcement had something to prosecute, but I'm not holding my breath.
dolophonic said:The whole thing feels like a PR exercise. Cant really understand why JV and Garmin would sign him. Don't they have some kind of anti doping policy?
dolophonic said:The whole thing feels like a PR exercise. Cant really understand why JV and Garmin would sign him. Don't they have some kind of anti doping policy?
Garmin's official policy is to give riders a dope-free environment where they aren't pressured to dope, implying most if not all of their veteran riders were in doping teams or doped themselves, and tacitly admitting so. If you accept this premise, signing Dekker makes perfect sense.sniper said:...and we have a winner...
Garmin's policy is to sign ex-dopers: if you've already been caught once (the chances of which are slim), you're simply statistically unlikely to get caught again.
It's almost like doping has become this game of Six Degrees of Denis Menchov.craig1985 said:So which ex-Rabo cyclist should be worried the most? Boogerd? Menchov? Chicken?
hrotha said:Garmin's official policy is to give riders a dope-free environment where they aren't pressured to dope, implying most if not all of their veteran riders were in doping teams or doped themselves, and tacitly admitting so. If you accept this premise, signing Dekker makes perfect sense.
L'arriviste said:That's nicely broad. Somebody could still dope while at Garmin, it's just that they weren't under pressure to do so.