Go away Ricco

[lacgin]

Just read that Ricco does not think fans care about doping. Is this guy for real? Italians have a different approach to cycling. That I knew, but it has never been more apparent than now. He, his team and the bianchi sponsors are dragging the sport down. Am I alone to think this?

 

[theyoungest]

Italians have a different approach to cycling.

Different than who?

 

[Anonymous]

Most people dont have time for him.. its been discussed regularly in the clinic where we discuss talk about dopes, sorry, doping.

 

[franciep10]

Ricco is a delusional idiot simply put

 

[BikeCentric]

I agree, I just read that new article about him on CN as well. He needs to go. Saying that the fans don't care about doping is just idiocy. And the way he has treated his girlfriend is just disgusting not to mention hypocritical and irresponsible. Ricco is the biggest a-hole I have ever seen in my time as a cycling fan (10+ years). Yes he makes Armstrong look like a Saint.

 

[Publicus]

Apparently I am either not a real cycling fan or not a real tifosi--which I thought was Italian for fan. Either way, he's an a$$ for saying such a thing. I suspect he will be bounced out with a lifetime ban in the next 24 months.

 

[elapid]

I agree, I just read that new article about him on CN as well. He needs to go. Saying that the fans don't care about doping is just idiocy. And the way he has treated his girlfriend is just disgusting not to mention hypocritical and irresponsible. Ricco is the biggest a-hole I have ever seen in my time as a cycling fan (10+ years). Yes he makes Armstrong look like a Saint.

+1. No amount of talent can make up for his huge character deficiencies and anything that comes out when he opens his stupid mouth.

 

[Big GMaC]

And talking about himself in the 3rd Person. Massive Tool move

 

[soOpOSMthanks!]

Jaja, text message breakup.

 

[Hugh Januss]

Ass or not he may not be that far off the mark. Like the Lance fanboys I think the majority of more casual (for lack of a better word) fans don't think that much about doping. When they do it follows the same simple progression. My guy doesn't dope, ok well he does now, but they all do so who cares?
Ricco fans won't be the most discerning anyway (if they were they wouldn't be Ricco fans) so maybe he is right for his fans as far as that goes.

 

[Andrichuk]

Hes not the first to dope, or be an *** off the bike, I'll give him a second chance and let his riding do the talking.

 

[Hugh Januss]

Hes not the first to dope, or be an *** off the bike, I'll give him a second chance and let his riding do the talking.

I'd be more inclined to let his riding do the talking if his mouth would ever stop.

 

[BroDeal]

I say bring him on. As long as riders like Armstrong, Valverde, and Kloden are racing then why not Ricco? At least he paid a price for what he did, unlike these other fartknockers.

People are upset because Ricco tells it like it is. They don't want to know that doping is ingrained in the sport the same way indexed shifting is. They want the riders to cater to their delusions that it's only a few people taking dope.

Ricco at least makes races interesting.

 

[blackcat]

I love Ricco. I thought he was a snake at the start, but he is no different to the rest of the peloton, he just speaks the truth.

Anyone who speaks in the third person, and gives themself a nickname, is right be me.

 

[Vanspringel]

[COLOR="Red"]"I don't think the tifosi are interested if there's doping (in cycling) or not. They're interested in the battle and competition. I don’t think real tifosi are interested in doping. If someone is a fan of Ricco, they still are now, even if he's made a mistake or not."

"I was a fan of [MotoGP pilot] Valentino Rossi even when he didn't pay taxes in Italy. For me a champion is a champion. I think my real fans see me as a 23-year-old who made a mistake but who can't wait to see him race again. That's how I see it. Of course there are other kinds of cycling fans but that's the way I see things."[/color]

I dont know if it is a translation problem or not but Italians always sound like smug w*nkers when they are talking about themselves. Or it could be that Ricco is a smug w*nker who makes even Basso sound sane. Drugs do affect the mind remember!

 

[blackcat]

oh yeah, how is he different from StrongArm, Wigans etc.

Contador is about the only humble champion. Andy Schleck does not speak himself up either.

People would not care about Ricco talking smack if he never was sanctioned. But Cedric Vasseur was musing all riders on CSC and Columbia went positive to CERA also in 2008 Tour. Only Saunier and Gerolsteiner riders were popped, cos they were the east marks. As if they were the "only" riders who had this product that was supposedly not tested for.

 

[pedaling squares]

It's hard to like this smug little man, but I can't say that he's done anything worse than many other riders. He says stupid things, but so many riders do the same things he did and say nothing. Hard to say that he's any worse than them.

 

[hfer07]

to be honest I don't give a fvck about his filthy mouth-as his nickname-the only thing coming out of it is poison--- but I'm curious what he can do now and see if he's that stupid to get caught again

 

[tubularglue]

 

[rhubroma]

He's right, in Italy the tifosi don't really care about doping lest they'd stop watching.

As far as Italian cycling being different...than which? Spanish?!?! Belgian?!? American !?!?

Please it is so iritating to have to listen to the hypocrites. The reality is that sport, all sport, is pharmacalogially dependent. And this has to do with an agonistic culture that has made of sport national and corporate propaganda, as at the Olymipic Games, for which political and nationlalistic agendas, corporate profit /interests and athletic attainment have been seemlessly fused.

In such an environment, the anti-doping rhetoric coming from the political authorities and corporate leadership is merely a pathetic and hypocritical means to address a percieved moralistic public to save face: which in reality either is naive to the dirty reality or else, as Riccò suggests, doesn't actually care one iota.

Wheresas those political and corporate entities have actually driven sport to the lowly ethical state we find it today, for sheer profit and special interests.

 

[Zen Master]

I say bring him on. As long as riders like Armstrong, Valverde, and Kloden are racing then why not Ricco? At least he paid a price for what he did, unlike these other fartknockers.

People are upset because Ricco tells it like it is. They don't want to know that doping is ingrained in the sport the same way indexed shifting is. They want the riders to cater to their delusions that it's only a few people taking dope.

Ricco at least makes races interesting.

I couldn't agree more !

 

[craig1985]

I love Ricco. I thought he was a snake at the start, but he is no different to the rest of the peloton, he just speaks the truth.

Anyone who speaks in the third person, and gives themself a nickname, is right be me.

+1 for me.

Ricco has a lot of confidence, that is for certain. I mean he had barely finished his neo-pro year when he was already slagging off Bettini, Nibali etc.

 

[jens_attacks]

Ricco is a cool guy...i like him.

and i'm not an italian tifosi but honestly i don't give a **** about doping.it's like fighting drugs and win.you can't do that.doping will exist forever.

 

[markene2]

I love Ricco. I thought he was a snake at the start, but he is no different to the rest of the peloton, he just speaks the truth.

Anyone who speaks in the third person, and gives themself a nickname, is right be me.

1+
As he makes the race interesting, he was one of the few that could keep up with Contador, and i would love to see him at the Giro this year.

 

[forty four]

its not the lying or the doping lots do that. its his actions and arrogance as a human being that are offensive i will never be on the side of someone who is so morally reprehensible.