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TourOfSardinia said:Even the Pope is getting in on the act:
The Pope told Olympic leaders that looking for profit and victory at all costs risked reducing athletes "to mere trading material".
"Sport is harmony, but if money and success prevail as the aim, this harmony crumbles," Pope Francis said.
Neat Olympics bauble for him
keep taking the holy water!
Fausto's Schnauzer said:This pic comes to mind....
Spanish rider Jesus Manzano kisses Pope John Paul II's hand during the weekly general audience in St. Peter's square at the Vatican, Wednesday, March 31, 2004. The Spanish rider, who rocked the cycling world with accusations of widespread doping, has signed with an Italian team that has a public anti-doping stance.
sniper said:Is that issue with degaldeano already known? I think from 2001. Vebruggen giving him a pass for cortisone.
or the uci email to all teams i think from 2002 where they explain teams that dynepo cannot yet be detected but offers great performance enhance,ent...
read about it in the sueddeutsche zeitung tpday, article about the growung pressure on verdruggen, including thes stuff that came out yetsterday (stevenhaagen,etc.)
The graph below shows the frequency of Google searches for Hein Verbruggen this year.
Two peaks, one in January when Lance went on Oprah and one this month after Lance accused the former UCI chief of ordering a positive test to be covered up.
Responding at length for the first time to the disgraced former Tour de France champion’s claims last month that a positive test in 1999 was suppressed, Hein Verbruggen, the former head of world cycling:
• Accused Armstrong of making the accusations for financial gain
• Produced documentary evidence aimed at showing there was no positive test
• Said there was no corruption during his reign in charge of the International Cycling Union
• Revealed he had written to the American seeking an apology.
gooner said:Interview with Verbruggen in The Telegraph tomorrow.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/ot...ays-former-UCI-president-Hein-Verbruggen.html
thehog said:Perfect timing. Clearly worried about what coming out in testimony from London
Briant_Gumble said:"I see it as if I am part of some kind of industry now: it's called the Lance Armstrong industry. People are making films now. It's all part of the industry"
Good to know that Heins beginning to realise, especially since he is so concerned about his precious reputation, that he will be immortalised in the kernels of history as a key, key player in the biggest fraud in the history of sports.
That's not even mentioning the rest of his work at the UCI.
DirtyWorks said:The guy is a master strategist that Wonderboy cannot match.
• Produced documentary evidence aimed at showing there was no positive test
If no positive test had occured, what was the need of a backdated TUE ?86TDFWinner said:Has this been the only time? Why didn't he do this before?
poupou said:If no positive test had occured, what was the need of a backdated TUE ?
DirtyWorks said:Long interview with Hein. Very good stuff to get an idea of the UCI's world view and what Cookson is most likely working on. Let's make money like Ecclestone!
http://theouterline.com/?p=527
He's showing his hand though, because the revenues he discusses never seemed to end up in the UCI's revenue.