Cash05458 said:gosh...so refreshing!![]()
Feel free to make that post about how saying nothing at all is somehow more honest to the sport (a """clean""" sport) than saying something. Ricco invented his own omerta textbook, somehow that offends you?
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Cash05458 said:gosh...so refreshing!![]()
craig1985 said:Was this split solely because Vania Rossi tested positive, or was this relationship on thin ice for a while, and Ricco had a convenient excuse to give her the flick? I know what Ricco said, but what Ricco said and what was the really the case behind the scenes is another.
The amount hypocritical BS on here is astounding, some people here like to lead the anti-doping crusade, and yet their favourite riders are dopers.
craig1985 said:I won't lie, Lance was one of the main reasons (one of them is because I went to school with somebody who cycled and that his bike was so expensive he kept it in the teacher's staff room, and the other was that I had way too much spare time) I got into cycling, so whether I like it or not, I can't say he is not an influence when it comes to me and cycling. Whilst I prefer Contador myself, I can't completely hate Lance, even if the evidence is too strong to not see that he is a doper.
Ripper said:Don't feel too bad, it's more than likely that Contra dopes as well![]()
rhubroma said:Riccò's move was a team dictat. Nothing more.
Their's was a sport union, that turned into a family and now the sport union must get broken up and, consequently, the family.
The family union is thus a casualty of the sport union, whereas the latter was entwined with doping from the outset. And one can't say which protagonist was more of an influence on the other or vice verca in their mutual doping. Their's was an "in doping we are connected" relationship from the beginning. Like so many riders/athletes and their wives/significant others (Dario Frigo, Rumsas, Marion Jones, etc.). Ricco's move has been orchestrated between all party's concerened: he, she, the team and probably the Italian Cycling Federation.
The only hypocricy is that coming from those who denounce Riccò as a hypocrit, while still complacently continue to follow this sport, which is ever more of a farce when it comes to the so called stance against doping.
On the other hand, it seems nobody is concidering what Riccò has actually said about his motives: namely that he asked Vania for the truth and to have her have the B sample tested as verification. So far she has not been willing to comply, which would amount to a lie towards him, whereas he made it clear that he confessed to her in private before publically confessing when he was caught. If, thus, Vania is lying to him and given his present situation, what reason does Riccò have to stay in the relationship?
have you ever been in a true relationshiprhubroma said:Riccò's move was a team dictat. Nothing more.
Their's was a sport union, that turned into a family and now the sport union must get broken up and, consequently, the family.
The family union is thus a casualty of the sport union, whereas the latter was entwined with doping from the outset. And one can't say which protagonist was more of an influence on the other or vice verca in their mutual doping. Their's was an "in doping we are connected" relationship from the beginning. Like so many riders/athletes and their wives/significant others (Dario Frigo, Rumsas, Marion Jones, etc.). Ricco's move has been orchestrated between all party's concerened: he, she, the team and probably the Italian Cycling Federation.
The only hypocricy is that coming from those who denounce Riccò as a hypocrit, while still complacently continue to follow this sport, which is ever more of a farce when it comes to the so called stance against doping.
On the other hand, it seems nobody is concidering what Riccò has actually said about his motives: namely that he asked Vania for the truth and to have her have the B sample tested as verification. So far she has not been willing to comply, which would amount to a lie towards him, whereas he made it clear that he confessed to her in private before publically confessing when he was caught. If, thus, Vania is lying to him and given his present situation, what reason does Riccò have to stay in the relationship?
Do we really know that was a true relationship? In the world we live in I am not sure if a baby in a true bonding to keep a relationship together (if there was any).python said:have you ever been in a true relationship
there are many reasons to stay..the baby is one. if it does not hold because vania held back her admission it never was meant to last.
python said:have you ever been in a true relationship
there are many reasons to stay..the baby is one. if it does not hold because vania held back her admission it never was meant to last.
Dr. Maserati said:It is being reported that Rossi's B sample is negative, I wonder what Ricardo will say now!
Man, that is weird. What are the odds?Dr. Maserati said:It is being reported that Rossi's B sample is negative, I wonder what Ricardo will say now!