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???Netserk said:
1) This is a hypothetical. A response to a question. 2) Read the interview. With Grand Tours taking up 69 race days in a year, and the desire being not to have overlapping World Tour races, your ability to add races in developing cycling markets is limited, as is your ability to shift existing WT races that currently overlap. (And before someone jumps up and down saying the WT doesn't need any more races added: read the interview. He wants a smaller, tighter, more focused WT, but one with the ability to add races in new territories (US, Asia, Africa, wherever) as required.)Netserk said:
Is there any degree of coincidence that Sky were informed on or around the day of the election of Lappartient of the AAF of Froome? Perhaps he was hard at work straight away... 
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This man is quickly becoming the best UCI president ever. Now he just needs a conviction. UCI didn't went easy on Contador, so I hope the same happens here.
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https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/dec/13/chris-froome-team-sky-reputation-abnormal-drug-test
“There are rules of conduct,” Lappartient said. “I’m not here to break our rules. It’s not for me to interfere with this case. The procedure is secret, under discussion, and I don’t have any information on it. I do not even know in what stage [of the Vuelta] the sample was taken. I was just informed of an irregular test [result] but I don’t know whether [the taking of salbutamol] was justified or not.”
El Pistolero said:
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/dec/13/chris-froome-team-sky-reputation-abnormal-drug-test
“There are rules of conduct,” Lappartient said. “I’m not here to break our rules. It’s not for me to interfere with this case. The procedure is secret, under discussion, and I don’t have any information on it. I do not even know in what stage [of the Vuelta] the sample was taken. I was just informed of an irregular test [result] but I don’t know whether [the taking of salbutamol] was justified or not.”
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That doesn't sound promising given that Team Sky have once again decided to play the incompetent doctor card
However Lappartient could just be distancing himself ahead of Froome losing the Vuelta and getting a ban
And regardless of what Lappartient says he will know that this is the first big test of his presidency surely he's not going to flunk it...?
Meantime anyone care to speculate on whether this issue would have seen the light of day under Cookson?
No doubt Brian will be along in a minute to tell us the Froome Dog's reputation should be restored...
TourOfSardinia said:
That doesn't sound promising given that Team Sky have once again decided to play the incompetent doctor card
However Lappartient could just be distancing himself ahead of Froome losing the Vuelta and getting a ban
And regardless of what Lappartient says he will know that this is the first big test of his presidency surely he's not going to flunk it...?
Meantime anyone care to speculate on whether this issue would have seen the light of day under Cookson?
No doubt Brian will be along in a minute to tell us the Froome Dog's reputation should be restored...
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Yeah, calling up Dr Who to whisk him back him time to the Vuelta to carry out the test...heart_attack_man said:Is there any degree of coincidence that Sky were informed on or around the day of the election of Lappartient of the AAF of Froome? Perhaps he was hard at work straight away...
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They tried to hide it initially. They only had to take action once it was public knowledge and Wada got involved
42x16ss said:
They tried to hide it initially. They only had to take action once it was public knowledge and Wada got involved
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Judging by Unipublic reaction (wait & see), everyone is looking for UCI at the moment.
Don't screw this up.
Don't screw this up.
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I can't help to think that Lappartient has something to do with it.
Or I ask a question, whether we would know about this if Cookson was president?
I know this is not good for the sport but yes this is good for the sport!
Or I ask a question, whether we would know about this if Cookson was president?
I know this is not good for the sport but yes this is good for the sport!
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The best thing Lappartient can do is make sure the case follows the rules to the letter. If the outcome is then felt to be unsatisfactory he can use it to change them.
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Not sure they could legally do this. All tests from previous GT's have come back clean. So future suspension and stripping of the title from the event at which he tested positive are i'm guessing the only sanctions at the disposal of the authorities.
42x16ss said:
Not sure they could legally do this. All tests from previous GT's have come back clean. So future suspension and stripping of the title from the event at which he tested positive are i'm guessing the only sanctions at the disposal of the authorities.
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We don't know about it because of Lappartient...Escarabajo said:I can't help to think that Lappartient has something to do with it.
Or I ask a question, whether we would know about this if Cookson was president?
I know this is not good for the sport but yes this is good for the sport!
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You clearly still don't get that there's a world of difference between a failed test, and the reporting of said failure.
fmk_RoI said:Yeah, calling up Dr Who to whisk him back him time to the Vuelta to carry out the test...heart_attack_man said:Is there any degree of coincidence that Sky were informed on or around the day of the election of Lappartient of the AAF of Froome? Perhaps he was hard at work straight away...
You clearly still don't get that there's a world of difference between a failed test, and the reporting of said failure.
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While I understand Lappartient's initial reaction, the fact is that he "inherited the Froome + and SKY coverup" done by Cookson, whose re-election was meant to secure the entire matter would never ever see the daylight, but since he lost, the whole of the dirty business of Froome & SKY got exposed & derailed.
I also tend to believe the so called "secret procedure" has to do entirely between ASO & SKY "partnership" trying very hard to dilute the scandal to the minimum, so when the time comes for CAS, WADA & UCI to set sanctions, it'd be blamed on some made up pseudo science meant to cause the minimum harm to their names altogether....
As some folk already mentioned - this is Lappartient's defining test to prove his stand on dopers/cheaters-specially the ones at the highest ranks
TourOfSardinia said:
While I understand Lappartient's initial reaction, the fact is that he "inherited the Froome + and SKY coverup" done by Cookson, whose re-election was meant to secure the entire matter would never ever see the daylight, but since he lost, the whole of the dirty business of Froome & SKY got exposed & derailed.
I also tend to believe the so called "secret procedure" has to do entirely between ASO & SKY "partnership" trying very hard to dilute the scandal to the minimum, so when the time comes for CAS, WADA & UCI to set sanctions, it'd be blamed on some made up pseudo science meant to cause the minimum harm to their names altogether....
As some folk already mentioned - this is Lappartient's defining test to prove his stand on dopers/cheaters-specially the ones at the highest ranks
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Well, what do you guys think?
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/french-magistrates-investigating-big-name-riders-for-mechanical-doping/
He is going after something!
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/french-magistrates-investigating-big-name-riders-for-mechanical-doping/
He is going after something!
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