doping-related content, please feel free to delete or move
Just wanted to apologize for posting doping-related content outside The Clinic. I didn't realize this thread was in another forum b/c I clicked through to it from an email update and replied according to what I read in the most recent msgs. So please feel free to delete or move this post, mod(s). Cheers.
Ryo Hazuki said:
rumsas simply rode granfondo's as he sitll could use anything you could name and win races there and make good money. I think now it has cleaned up a lot. even the granfondo's
i raced against Rumsas a lot in 2006 and, while I had the better of him in Feb and March b/c I had a lot more race days, by the early summer he was untouchable. he definitely made $$ but not the Lampre-money he earned before.
It's unfortunate in the doping discussion that sometimes it's lost or overlooked the fact that Rumsas had tremendous class on the bike and a level of natural ability and talent that far surpassed that of most cyclists, which is why he was a pro in the first place. Of course he improved his performances with doping but he didn't change his class as a rider by using EPO. It didn't give him such an advantage that he was unjustly beating other riders who were equally doped.