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Race Radio said:It is all a French....er, Italian conspiracy. It is all that tabloid le 'Equipe's....err, la Gazetta trying to sell newspapers.
igamogam said:Title says it all.
Super talented rider but a real shame. I hope he serves his ban graciously and helps kill off the doping culture by admitting what he's done.
igamogam said:Title says it all.
Super talented rider but a real shame. I hope he serves his ban graciously and helps kill off the doping culture by admitting what he's done.
ScottinPhilly said:Just about any other rider in his position would at the very least be provisionally suspended at this point.
ScottinPhilly said:I like Valverde's defense strategy. Throw enough crap at the wall and some of it is going to stick. His lawyers now claim his human rights have been violated. How and when did this happen? He continues to hide behind the Spanish courts because he knows and has known all along it is his blood. My beef is what the hell makes Valverde so damn special. Just about any other rider in his position would at the very least be provisionally suspended at this point. Yet Valverde remains free to challenge at the Tour Down Under, Paris-Nice and probably if his appeal lasts long enough the TDF. I just want this over with, once Valverde takes his punishment maybe we can finally stop dealing with OP.
FignonLeGrand said:Basso/ Valverde/ Ricco are the worst of the worst
Polish said:Basso took his suspension they way ALL riders should take their suspensions - with honorable acceptance.
Although the sport would be healthier if suspensions did not exist - ie, dopers kicked out for good - the way Basso handled his suspension should become a template for healthy sport in a suspension infected cycling world.
Turds like Ricco could not care less about the sport - only about themselves.
Just imagine what would happen if the UCI ADDED 1 year to a suspension if you named names. Do you think turds like Ricco would still be naming names? Of course not - they are only looking out for themselves. Screw the sport. Me Me ME....can Me race sooner if I name names? Yes? Names Names NAMES.
Basso also has a cute sister.
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/kashechkin-says-doping-controls-violate-human-rightsIn an interview with the AFP news agency, his lawyer, Luc Misson, said that he will base his argument on article 8 of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights, which says that only public authorities can interfere in people's private lives, and that "the sports authorities are not the public authorities." Even collecting blood samples violates human rights, he said.
Misson said that he was prepared to take Kashechkin's case all the way to the highest court. "If we lose, we will go to the court of appeal, then the Supreme Court of Appeal, then the European Court of Human Rights," he said. "And then we will be in a very good position. At the human rights court it would lead to a [favourable] decision at a world, if not a European level."
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/belgian-court-dismisses-kashechkin-suitAndrey Kashechkin has lost the first stage of his fight against the doping control system of which he had run afoul. A Belgian court has refused to hear the case, ruling that it has no jurisdiction in the matter, and that Kashechkin had agreed to undergo such testing when he accepted his license.
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The court ruled that the case should be tried in a court in Switzerland, where the UCI is headquartered. It also ruled that a rider's application for a license was the equivalent of a contract, and in accepting the license, the rider also accepted the UCI's terms and conditions, including anti-doping controls.
elapid said:Not true - how many riders have been suspended from Operation Puerto? Three riders (Basso, Scarponi and Jaschke) and all three were suspended because they confessed to their involvement. No rider (or athlete from another sport) has been found guilty. What about the other 50-odd cyclists who were implicated and thus are all in Valverde's position? None of them have been investigated (by CONI, UCI or anyone else) and provisionally suspended. While I have no doubt regarding Valverde's guilt, this is a targeted witch hunt which ignores the ruling of higher powers (Spanish judiciary) and the involvement of the remaining riders implicated in Operation Puerto who continue to ride professionally.
igamogam said:I hope they consider the legal rights of others that have been stopped from winning events that he has won whilst he should have been banned. Isn't doping a form of fraud, I don't understand why athletes do not face criminal charges and custodial sentences for doping.
DavidVilla7 said:Leave Valverde alone please. Even if he doped in the past, he's not using right now. So.... they better spent their time and efforts more wisely on important cases. It's just not fair that Valverde is the only OP victim, they have no proof. ( yes a bloodbag saying valv piti)
You know it's very clear, and riders like LL and even Conta really know what's going on. Valverde is the scapegoat.
DavidVilla7 said:Leave Valverde alone please. Even if he doped in the past, he's not using right now. So.... they better spent their time and efforts more wisely on important cases. It's just not fair that Valverde is the only OP victim, they have no proof. ( yes a bloodbag saying valv piti)
You know it's very clear, and riders like LL and even Conta really know what's going on. Valverde is the scapegoat.
DavidVilla7 said:Leave Valverde alone please. Even if he doped in the past, he's not using right now. So.... they better spent their time and efforts more wisely on important cases. It's just not fair that Valverde is the only OP victim
Your post is notable by the number of clear errors of fact.DavidVilla7 said:Leave Valverde alone please. Even if he doped in the past, he's not using right now. So.... they better spent their time and efforts more wisely on important cases. It's just not fair that Valverde is the only OP victim, they have no proof. ( yes a bloodbag saying valv piti)
You know it's very clear, and riders like LL and even Conta really know what's going on. Valverde is the scapegoat.