Kittel Tweet

[Zam_Olyas]

Let Sayar Ride

Mustafar Safar
do not slow musta down
he been a riding all over town



All he wanna do is ride around, Safar
(Let Safar ride)
All he wanna do is ride around, Safar
(Let Safar ride)
All he wanna do is ride around, Safar
(Let Safar ride)
All he wanna do is ride around, Safar
(Let Safar ride)

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Mustafar Safar
do not slow musta down
he been a riding all over town



All he wanna do is ride around, Safar
(Let Safar ride)
All he wanna do is ride around, Safar
(Let Safar ride)
All he wanna do is ride around, Safar
(Let Safar ride)
All he wanna do is ride around, Safar
(Let Safar ride)

Chapeau, Sir.

 

[Zam_Olyas]

Shane Stokes ‏@SSbike 1m
Sayar case: French lab confirms it used B sample rather than A sample for EPO test, says rules permit it http://www.velonation.com/News/ID/1...dures-were-followed-in-Sayar-doping-case.aspx …

 

[JimmyFingers]

So Kittel was on the money? A few here owe him an apology. The accusations of racism was banded about pretty cheaply in reaction to his tweet. The start of this thread makes interesting reading.

 

[hrotha]

So Kittel was on the money? A few here owe him an apology. The accusations of racism was banded about pretty cheaply in reaction to his tweet. The start of this thread makes interesting reading.

Sigh. Again, virtually no one thought Kittel was wrong about Sayar.

 

[JimmyFingers]

So why call him racist then?

 

[hrotha]

So why call him racist then?

Because he was perceived by some to be selective about who he called out. I thought you had re-read the thread?

 

[JimmyFingers]

You're defending the indefensible, given recent developments. Kittel called out a rider for doping, the clinic 12 decided he was racist because he was calling out a Turk and Kittel is part of the anglo-alliance, and also there was mass chagrin at the fact Kittel wasn't calling out Sky, so the many here decided to go after a rider for breaking omerta because he wasn't naming riders than they would like him to name.

And a few months later the rider tests positive. But Kittel is still in the wrong?

Does that sum it up?

 

[hrotha]

No one here ever said Sayar was clean, and that was NEVER the issue.

 

[manafana]

It does show the sport is trying to keep itself clean, id like to see samples labelled by codes so only a computer would know who sample it is. A change in the UCI is key start

 

[JimmyFingers]

No one here ever said Sayar was clean, and that was NEVER the issue.

Looking back the only one that said they thought Sayer was doping flat out was Netserk. Everyone else was 'well it's a bit suspicious I suppose, but Sky are SO much more suspicious, why doesn't Kittel tweet about them?'.

Kittel called it spot on. Good on him. Perhaps next time a pro-rider breaks ranks the clinic 12 won't give him such a hard time, even if it's not about a clinic sanctioned rider.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

The debate was over whether calling out a guy like Mustafa Sayar is breaking ranks at all, or in fact closing them given Törku's outsider status, which is why Kittel's willingness to call out a guy like Sayar but lack of willingness to call out riders whose transformations and performances seem on the surface to be similarly ludicrous was brought up and became the talking point.

Sayar was so obvious most people didn't even need to bother saying "I think he's doped". Nobody would have heard of him if they hadn't watched the Tour of Turkey, and anybody who watched the Tour of Turkey wouldn't have had many doubts.