Well, cycling fans, you wanted it, you got it. You got a UCI to look deeply into doping, and what you got (surprise!) was a power-hungry group that is now extending it's tentacles into every area of the sport, extracting money from everyone and everything.
They are over-regulating every aspect of the sport- even Gran Fondos, which aren't even races(!), are now regulated by the UCI in a brilliant cash grab from manufacturers.
Cycling grew tremendously in the 90's and 00's thanks to the big names, all of whom were "cheating". I have written here before on the astonishing lack of perspective of new cycling fans about doping, which has ALWAYS existed.
Just get used to it, cycling fans. A never ending stream of legal BS and races where the finish line is not the finish line, but the starting point of another race altogether. Lance knew that the game was played this way, using European rules (which are definitely NOT the same as the rest of the Western world). In case you thought the imperialistic tendencies of the United States started somewhere else- it didn't. It was Europe. Using one hand to pat you on the head and the other to stab you in the back.
Now the game is ALL legal. Lance beat them at their own game both on the road and off of it. Landis tried, Tyler tried, but they all weren't controlling enough to win that second game. Lance ****ed off everyone, and now NO ONE gets to play their own game. Now the UCI will kill you AND your family, your former team, your former sporting directors... everyone. Johan Bruyneel should get out now, lest he continue ****ing off the Mafia that is the UCI. Every rider who succeeds now will be placed under this microscope. In the current climate, I would never DREAM of having the talent to win the Tour. Because if I did I'd be hung out to dry SOMEHOW by merely being human in an inhuman system. At least cheating is a human response to difficulty. Enforcement of rules is the inhuman part.
Being fast isn't enough anymore, and you cycling fans who wanted to look too deeply into whether people were following the rules MADE this happen. I guess you didn't know the rules either. You should have listened to Lance. He wrote it all down for you, right between the lines.
I have never suffered so much in my life as when bureaucrats have decided to exercise their inhuman and inflexible power- and you cycling fans have INVITED THEM INTO THE HOUSE. Now, you'll never get them out...
Good luck and enjoy your courthouse coverage...
They are over-regulating every aspect of the sport- even Gran Fondos, which aren't even races(!), are now regulated by the UCI in a brilliant cash grab from manufacturers.
Cycling grew tremendously in the 90's and 00's thanks to the big names, all of whom were "cheating". I have written here before on the astonishing lack of perspective of new cycling fans about doping, which has ALWAYS existed.
Just get used to it, cycling fans. A never ending stream of legal BS and races where the finish line is not the finish line, but the starting point of another race altogether. Lance knew that the game was played this way, using European rules (which are definitely NOT the same as the rest of the Western world). In case you thought the imperialistic tendencies of the United States started somewhere else- it didn't. It was Europe. Using one hand to pat you on the head and the other to stab you in the back.
Now the game is ALL legal. Lance beat them at their own game both on the road and off of it. Landis tried, Tyler tried, but they all weren't controlling enough to win that second game. Lance ****ed off everyone, and now NO ONE gets to play their own game. Now the UCI will kill you AND your family, your former team, your former sporting directors... everyone. Johan Bruyneel should get out now, lest he continue ****ing off the Mafia that is the UCI. Every rider who succeeds now will be placed under this microscope. In the current climate, I would never DREAM of having the talent to win the Tour. Because if I did I'd be hung out to dry SOMEHOW by merely being human in an inhuman system. At least cheating is a human response to difficulty. Enforcement of rules is the inhuman part.
Being fast isn't enough anymore, and you cycling fans who wanted to look too deeply into whether people were following the rules MADE this happen. I guess you didn't know the rules either. You should have listened to Lance. He wrote it all down for you, right between the lines.
I have never suffered so much in my life as when bureaucrats have decided to exercise their inhuman and inflexible power- and you cycling fans have INVITED THEM INTO THE HOUSE. Now, you'll never get them out...
Good luck and enjoy your courthouse coverage...
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