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Benotti69

Benotti69

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His statement is a joke.

These guys claim to love the sport. I am not buying it. These guys could have come out with Landis and done the right thing for the love of their sport.
 
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The statements of Barry and Hincapie are identical. Will be hilarious when Leipheimer(and the rest) comes out with an equally similar statement.

"Workin hard since 2006 within cycling to rid it of banned substances" is the new "never tested positive".
 
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Wow!! For a while I thought Randy Strakman was back from death :eek: , then I realize the article is from 2010 :D

RIP Randy, your articles are greatly missed.
 
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skidmark said:
Are you suggesting Landis loves the sport? Really?
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Landis left his mennonite community race bikes. That takes some doing. He must have loved racing bikes a lot to do that. Whether he truly loves the sport now, i doubt it becuase he has seen how f**Ked up it is. Does he want a clean sport, i think so.
 
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Racelap said:
What I take away from that 2010 article is that Clara Hughes is most likely a doper as well.
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Naw, she's just not that sharp...

Haha, Barry! Nice that he's forced to make a statement on the day USADA is releasing. If USADA wasn't dropping their information today, Barry would have continued upholding Omerta until his dying day.

NO congrats for a forced confession at the eleventh hour. He had a gun to his head. Lying coward...
 
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Yeah. In a way, these guys are being total dooshes. I agree. They should have come out and supported Floyd and Tyler earlier instead of listening to Armstrong telling them to be quiet.
 
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Benotti69 said:
His statement is a joke.

These guys claim to love the sport. I am not buying it. These guys could have come out with Landis and done the right thing for the love of their sport.
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"Not doped since 2006".....?????....what a classic joke. Does he think he is talking to un-informed public?? Ps, Mr barry, Tyler gave us the low-down. What a caged meaningless statement, better to have said nothing
 
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Phone call

Hopefully he called Landis and explained himself.

Also he did the junk and still did NOT get on the Tour team. WTF???
 
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6 months is not enough for these guys. It's more than the doping, it's the endless lies. USADA went too light on them for the sake of getting their testimony against Armstrong.
 
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6 months is not enough for these guys. It's more than the doping, it's the endless lies. USADA went too light on them for the sake of getting their testimony against Armstrong.
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I partially agree. 2 years would've been better, and is certainly well deserved.

BUT if this case can result in a giant "sh*t-tsunami" that washes the earth of the corrupt UCI, and that is a huge IF, then I can live with the cheaters getting off lightly.

Sure, I don't like LA or how he handles himself, but if this can truly effect change that is long overdue... Well, then...

As things are going, I'm watching the tides and hoping for that storm...
 
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tofino said:
Hopefully he called Landis and explained himself.

Also he did the junk and still did NOT get on the Tour team. WTF???
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Ya, I had always figured that he had steadfastly refused to dope therefore didn't make the TDF team......WRONG!

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I know her. Not likely.
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I have met her and Michael many times and I would have said the same about Michael 2 years ago. For all her public hero image I have heard many stores about her that are in conflict with that image. Just saying declarations of innocence from cycling fans is often misplaced as many pros have proven our mistake. Just for clarity, I have never heard about doping in connection to Clara but the things I have heard would not increase my confidence or trust that she raced clean. A lot of really successful athletes are not always nice people including the outwardly cheery. Like the song say "they smile in your face, all the time they want to take your place..."
 
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Master50 said:
I have met her and Michael many times and I would have said the same about Michael 2 years ago. For all her public hero image I have heard many stores about her that are in conflict with that image. Just saying declarations of innocence from cycling fans is often misplaced as many pros have proven our mistake. Just for clarity, I have never heard about doping in connection to Clara but the things I have heard would not increase my confidence or trust that she raced clean. A lot of really successful athletes are not always nice people including the outwardly cheery. Like the song say "they smile in your face, all the time they want to take your place..."
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I know that the 'unthinkable' has bee flipped on its ear with all that has come out lately. And I know that many who we would have sworn up and down as clean have come out dirty.
While no one really knows with 100% certainty, Clara has performed consistently in cycling and speed skating for 20 plus years. As a junior she was turning amazing numbers, that crept up slowly and steadily and never really spiked at any time. What does that mean? Maybe nothing.....

When she returned to cycling a few years ago, she worked with some of the most capable and innovative physiologists and coaches, and returned to a level probably slightly below her previous best. Always a turbodiesel, never became a new climber, which is often the case with dopers. (GH, Alpe d"Huez etc....)

To me there are no red flags or smoking guns here. And it would be a staggering disappointment to learn that this presumption is incorrect. So far I think it is.
 
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Barry admittin a few things

yeh doesnt add up does it, saying doping was a minimal performance enhancer :rolleyes: He did give away some good info though...

the wife / girlfriend always knows
She knew. It would have been impossible to hide it from her. Most of the doping I did was at our home in Spain. I kept the drugs in the fridge.
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And this is GOLD..

I didn’t expect the mental toll. If you’re not sleeping and feel paranoid and guilty all the time, it affects your performance massively
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I didnt get the correlation between going clean and crashing in 2006. Why would a crash be linked to doping ? because you are doing crazy stuff / no fear ??

Stating he would give back his earnings is commendable though.
 
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Cycle Chic said:
yeh doesnt add up does it, saying doping was a minimal performance enhancer :rolleyes: He did give away some good info though...

the wife / girlfriend always knows

And this is GOLD..



I didnt get the correlation between going clean and crashing in 2006. Why would a crash be linked to doping ? because you are doing crazy stuff / no fear ??

Stating he would give back his earnings is commendable though.
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And everyone lived happily ever after....
 
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She knew. It would have been impossible to hide it from her. Most of the doping I did was at our home in Spain. I kept the drugs in the fridge.
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And STILL no one asks the frickin' obvious followup: so did Dede dope with you?

When will women's cycling get the respect it deserves? Equal ambition justifies equal suspicion.
 
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And STILL no one asks the frickin' obvious followup: so did Dede dope with you?
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does anybody have a link to this interview (from 2010) in which Dede apparently stands up for her husband saying he didn't dope?
 
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