gillan1969 said:
rick james said:
86TDFWinner said:
Red Rick said:
Legit wonder if they had this up their sleeve all this time and are only doing it now because of the circumstances.
Good point. Froome seems to have nearly the same power in this sport as Wonderboy did, which is sad.
So you are implying that Froome has got the UCI to hand this ban out to cobo?
Show us proof of that one please
the proof is Armstrong......or at least in these matters you are unlikely to get 'proof'...Armstrong is however evidence...that evidence being the only time a case has been forensically examined that was the what the evidence pointed to.....the question would be why would it have changed...where's your 'proof' it has changed?
I don't agree with 86TDFwinner in this instance, but you can't ignore that there has been demonstrable evidence of collusion (or at the least a symbiotic relationship) between the sport's governing body and its most successful riders?
The examples of UCI collusion to protect riders goes beyond Armstrong. Contador's positive which was being covered up leaps to mind. There is Brochard's backdated TUE in '99, the Landis fiasco, Basso, DiLuca, and on and on. Prudhomme said at one point,
“...I trust nobody — least of all the UCI. We were ready to work with the UCI to fight doping and have supported them financially. But when you have made an alliance, looked the other person right in the eyes, then you expect to be told the truth. But that didn’t happen… …You can’t make the Tour de France responsible for everything… We also have an international federation, but they are worth nothing. The UCI never wanted a clean Tour.”
The CIRC report cited riders saying,
"that they believed Therapeutic Use Exemptions were and are “systematically used” as part of doping. Moreover, one rider who spoke to CIRC claimed that 90 per cent of all TUEs were used for performance enhancement."
Anyone who imagines what happened with Froome is anything but a pure whitewash is ignorant of the history of the UCI, or in the case of anyone actually following the sport, delusional.