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I ain't afraid of slandering any athletes when I say that Cadel and Ryder Hesjedal and Roland Green and Seamus McGrath and Chris Sheppard and Steve Larsen(r.i.p.) and (redacted Canadian) and Kirk Molday are among the English speaking pioneers of "vector based doping" in MTB racing.
The Canadians all worked with (redacted) out of BC. Sheppard and McGrath got popped. (redacted) also coached a few female MTB racers in the late '90s who have related directly to me, were offered "additional assistance" and claim to have declined. (Redacted) never openly offered these ladies Orange Juice, just intimated it. That ain't proof, mind you, but 2 of this guys clients getting busted for EPO is. (Redacted) is still heavily involved in coaching(and is good at it) and has worked with world record holding skaters, skiers and runners as well.
Steve Larsen even named his kid after Max Testa.
Cadel's medicine came directly from Ferrari in Italy who "served him orange juice" and assisted in his preparation after he severed his ties to the AIS program.
It was Ferrari and Rominger(who has a real problem with his athletes getting busted) who pressured Cadel into joining the road world full time. Something makes me think that Rominger's own "motoman" helped spirit Amgen's finest across the border into Switzerland
John Howard said to me(and my parents) explicitly, when I was in 7th grade "everyone is dirty and if you want to make it as a pro you have to dope. The choice is yours". I'm really glad I heard that when I was in middle school and was shortly ensconced in the straight-edge hardcore world of Spooky because all of these poor ****ers who are new to the sport because of the Lance Effect and are having their minds blown right now.
Without the support of sponsors and promoters who loved me unconditionally and supported me as an athlete(because I knew how to sell stuff and busted *** to get more people on the start line) even if I didn't win many bike races I was accepted and respected and supported as a marketing machine and "roll model". With great certainty I would have gone to the ends of the earth to juice up if given the chance. Another 20% would have put me on the podium at lots of great races but I realized pretty young I just didn't have a high enough VO2 max to out-climb the same 6 guys every national and none of the kids were on dope yet(because they couldn't afford it!).
I believed that I could make it as a fullish-time athlete without superb mind-blowing results because I was grooming myself to be a Life-Pro like the role models I had from racing MTB's on the East Coast. Eric Lemaire, Chris Brown(ROBBED by Danielson!), Gunnar, John White and Steve Z from Florida, Salem Mazzaway and even for a hot minute, Floyd Landis.
There was time there, for a year or two when I was a role model for kids 3 or 4 years younger than me like JPow and some other starry-eyed New England mtb kids that saw the support and love I got from Spooky where I modeled for, some of them at least, the real face of professionalism, selling **** for the people who give it to you and supporting your scene, helping it grow and stay positive and strong.
Those ideals have died, hard, in MTB racing, and drugs have nothing to do with it except for the fact that Armstrong's backers stuffed $2,000,000 into an insolvent USAC by gunpoint in Y2K and setup USACDF so that they could run American Cycling by fiat, axing the line item that provided funding and promotional support to the NORBA National MTB Series(and the Norba board of directors while they were at it), effectively killing US mtb racing. And hey! look! all of a sudden all of those sponsorship dollars are getting allocated to road racing. Wheee!
http://www.velocipedesalon.com/foru...cyclingnews-com-forum-28860-6.html#post429975
The Canadians all worked with (redacted) out of BC. Sheppard and McGrath got popped. (redacted) also coached a few female MTB racers in the late '90s who have related directly to me, were offered "additional assistance" and claim to have declined. (Redacted) never openly offered these ladies Orange Juice, just intimated it. That ain't proof, mind you, but 2 of this guys clients getting busted for EPO is. (Redacted) is still heavily involved in coaching(and is good at it) and has worked with world record holding skaters, skiers and runners as well.
Steve Larsen even named his kid after Max Testa.
Cadel's medicine came directly from Ferrari in Italy who "served him orange juice" and assisted in his preparation after he severed his ties to the AIS program.
It was Ferrari and Rominger(who has a real problem with his athletes getting busted) who pressured Cadel into joining the road world full time. Something makes me think that Rominger's own "motoman" helped spirit Amgen's finest across the border into Switzerland
John Howard said to me(and my parents) explicitly, when I was in 7th grade "everyone is dirty and if you want to make it as a pro you have to dope. The choice is yours". I'm really glad I heard that when I was in middle school and was shortly ensconced in the straight-edge hardcore world of Spooky because all of these poor ****ers who are new to the sport because of the Lance Effect and are having their minds blown right now.
Without the support of sponsors and promoters who loved me unconditionally and supported me as an athlete(because I knew how to sell stuff and busted *** to get more people on the start line) even if I didn't win many bike races I was accepted and respected and supported as a marketing machine and "roll model". With great certainty I would have gone to the ends of the earth to juice up if given the chance. Another 20% would have put me on the podium at lots of great races but I realized pretty young I just didn't have a high enough VO2 max to out-climb the same 6 guys every national and none of the kids were on dope yet(because they couldn't afford it!).
I believed that I could make it as a fullish-time athlete without superb mind-blowing results because I was grooming myself to be a Life-Pro like the role models I had from racing MTB's on the East Coast. Eric Lemaire, Chris Brown(ROBBED by Danielson!), Gunnar, John White and Steve Z from Florida, Salem Mazzaway and even for a hot minute, Floyd Landis.
There was time there, for a year or two when I was a role model for kids 3 or 4 years younger than me like JPow and some other starry-eyed New England mtb kids that saw the support and love I got from Spooky where I modeled for, some of them at least, the real face of professionalism, selling **** for the people who give it to you and supporting your scene, helping it grow and stay positive and strong.
Those ideals have died, hard, in MTB racing, and drugs have nothing to do with it except for the fact that Armstrong's backers stuffed $2,000,000 into an insolvent USAC by gunpoint in Y2K and setup USACDF so that they could run American Cycling by fiat, axing the line item that provided funding and promotional support to the NORBA National MTB Series(and the Norba board of directors while they were at it), effectively killing US mtb racing. And hey! look! all of a sudden all of those sponsorship dollars are getting allocated to road racing. Wheee!
http://www.velocipedesalon.com/foru...cyclingnews-com-forum-28860-6.html#post429975
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