Loses his 51st at the Tour in '09 but keeps his Giro win of the same year that was achieved what - one month earlier? Makes no sense at all.
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Franklin said:Robbie, why don't we do the same for tax evaders and speed offenders?
William H said:I got the impression that it was effectively a deal with Menchov. Bio-passport cases tend to be long and complicated, so getting Menchov to no-contest is probably worth letting him keep his results.
Alpe d'Huez said:Does this mean Roberto Heras will actually be reinstated as the 2005 Vuelta winner?
BYOP88 said:I guess with the UCI now planning not to tell the media that someone has been suspended, I guess we just need to keep an eye out for retiring cyclists.
All of them?Justico said:i guess you can tell who's doping looking how they smile
Benotti69 said:David Millar is retiring this year
BYOP88 said:That guy should have been "retired" 10 years ago.
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Thanks all, understand concern and welcome your comments, uncomfortable though they may be. Will comment further on this in due course.But not on Twitter. Complex situation with legal complications. My commitment to transparency continues but have to respect due process.
Libertine Seguros said:Not really. If the biopassport is consistent up until then, even if it was only consistent because there were consistently maintained doped values, they can't really take away the results until the fluctuations begin. If the fluctuations that have been used as evidence Denis doped only commenced at the Tour in 2009 they can't really take away that Giro.
The real question is, given all of the others have had their results taken away in clearly defined time blocks, why has Menchov only had his Tour results taken away and been allowed to keep others, when they've gone postal on Hoste and Barredo?
I feel quite bad for accidentally helping to publicise this, mainly because I always kinda liked Menchov, and I was a Carlos Barredo fan and wished he could return.
Race Radio said:Have to wonder what Menchov's legal team did
Benotti69 said:The bio blood passport was not supposed to be about an anomaly per race, it was about finding doping over a period where through changes in blood values, therefore riders were going to be sanctioned and lose everything over that period. So Menchov did not dope to win the Giro but doped and didn't win the TdF. Yeah right
This sport sure has cleaned up.
roundabout said:Normal values = doped up to the eyeballs
Race Radio said:Have to wonder what Menchov's legal team did
@BrianCooksonUCI
Thanks all, understand concern and welcome your comments, uncomfortable though they may be. Will comment further on this in due course.But not on Twitter. Complex situation with legal complications. My commitment to transparency continues but have to respect due process.
Zam_Olyas said:And the travesty is you don't get the recognition and hrotha suggested a justice for libertine sequros thing
Libertine Seguros said:Oh the drawbacks of anonymous posting, lol.
In fairness, the Inner Ring pointed out it was uncovered by "a cycling fan" idly browsing the UCI site
a surprise?Benotti69 said:Omerta still strong
Frans Maassen (Belkin/Rabobank) about the Menchov case: “It's a surprise”
http://www.demorgen.be/dm/nl/1001/W...ssen-over-Menchov-Het-is-een-verrassing.dhtml
Guys like Maassen still enabling the culture.
hrotha said:Your method only has a 66.7% success rate.
Libertine Seguros said:I feel quite bad for accidentally helping to publicise this, mainly because I always kinda liked Menchov, and I was a Carlos Barredo fan and wished he could return.