So what's the new scandal?

[Roland Rat]

@papadominguez

Another bad news is coming to cycling not good
about 14 hours ago via Echofon

Nothing to do with TofMO guys. Just wait for the news, I'm telling you is not good for a lot of people
about 13 hours ago via Echofon

joepabike #notfloydlandisgate more grim rumors swirling around cycling - what, was last week Hiroshima and now its Nagasaki?

Any rumours circulating?

 

[blackcat]

I think Fumyuki Beppu and Yukiya Arashiro are f'ed.

 

[theswordsman]

Get Susan in here - we need a prediction contest!

 

[simmspin]

Green Borat mankini to become new Tour points leader jersey?

 

[Mellow Velo]

Are we finally going to get the returns on Astana Shack's 7 DNA drips?
It's gonna happen sometime soon. Certainly, before Le Tour. Timing is everything, in this sport.
Pierre to KO Pat in the 12th?

 

[Barrus]

Are we finally going to get the returns on Astana Shack's 7 DNA drips?
It's gonna happen sometime soon. Certainly, before Le Tour. Timing is everything, in this sport.

I think they'll wait till just before the tour, so they can put all these guys in handcuffs, does sound more like the French police with cycling (or I hope, still hope to see another action like Festine, made for fantastic television)

I think someone will attack the UCI again

 

[theswordsman]

Are we finally going to get the returns on Astana Shack's 7 DNA drips?
It's gonna happen sometime soon. Certainly, before Le Tour. Timing is everything, in this sport.
Pierre to KO Pat in the 12th?

That would be sweet. Or results of CERA retests from the 2008 Giro? We've got a backlog of news they owe us.

 

[RhodriM]

That would be sweet. Or results of CERA retests from the 2008 Giro? We've got a backlog of news they owe us.

Forgotten all about that too... how much stuff have they promised that we haven't seen yet?

 

[Ferminal]

That would be sweet. Or results of CERA retests from the 2008 Giro? We've got a backlog of news they owe us.

Both?

Bye Bye Bertie, Bye Bye RadioShack... Menchov to take the win

 

[Ferminal]

Sounds like it's something over in the States though...

 

[RhodriM]

Both?

Bye Bye Bertie, Bye Bye RadioShack... Menchov for the Tour

I had a free bet on him last year. He didn't look so hot after that humanplasma thing.

Speaking of which, did NADA ever release the names for that?

 

[theswordsman]

Both?

Bye Bye Bertie, Bye Bye RadioShack... Menchov to take the win

If Contador goes, I'll be clocking out too. I've got the French Open playing in the background to ease the transition. What's got me concerned out of all this is the "Pepe the 'trainer'" mention from 2003. I didn't know until I read it at Astanafans that Alberto is trained by Pepe Marti. I saw that he was with Discovery before Astana, but don't know about 2003, or if there was another Pepe around.

On the OCLAESP, I've never considered Contador to be in the running. Leipheimer crashed out, leaving seven guys who followed Armstrong and Bruyneel to Radio Shack. It wouldn't make sense that six of them would have done infusions and left one out. Besides, if Lance knew Contador could be busted for something, he would have made sure he got caught.

 

[Ferminal]

No, but he would be in the running for the Giro 2008 samples.

Although the fact that the Tour 2008 retests found no CERA positives would indicated that the Giro ones could be the same.

 

[FKLance]

lol, please, I think there's no way we'll ever see the 2008 giro retests!! must be something big from the US if Dominguez knows.. Feel like watching a car crash..

 

[theswordsman]

Thor Hushovd said he is pleased that this spring has been relatively few doping cases.

But there's probably something that is about to uncover in Italy, so we'll wait and see what it is, "said Hushovd.

http://www.fvn.no/sport/sykkel/article766259.ece

 

[Ferminal]

http://www.fvn.no/sport/sykkel/article766259.ece

The plot thickens...

Team Ground being investigated for race fixing?

AZ suspended for two years for "course enhancing drugs"?

Ricco's child positive for CERA?

Divine intervention delivers the final verdict to Pozzato?

 

[Barrus]

Divine intervention delivers the final verdict to Pozzato?

This one is really fantastic, I can already see the pope coming out to accuse Pozzato

 

[Benotti69]

http://www.fvn.no/sport/sykkel/article766259.ece

italians might not like a spaniard winning their Giro after the spanish federation ignoring coni......

 

[nesocip]

I think Fumyuki Beppu and Yukiya Arashiro are f'ed.

Hahaha, really made me laugh.


On topic, i think its definitely US related, more a continuation of the ongoing scandal then a brand new one.

 

[theswordsman]

italians might not like a spaniard winning their Giro after the spanish federation ignoring coni......

That's easy to fix - order the camera motos away from Basso and let the tifosi push him up the Mortirola.

 

[Wroots Clutten]

From the sound of the Hushovd article, surely he's talking about the Giro? Who's looked a bit rum to you guys? Personally, I haven't really seen much to raise an eyebrow. But there's still today and the Gavia to go... (slap them down Carlos!)

Having said that, Liquigas do seem to have become Team of The Year and had to drop Pellizotti. As for Sagan... I hope not, but kind of hard to buy, frankly.

 

[theswordsman]

Having said that, Liquigas do seem to have become Team of The Year and had to drop Pellizotti. As for Sagan... I hope not, but kind of hard to buy, frankly.

I guess you didn't see the other thread yet. Pellizotti will be at training camp with Liquigas next week and plans to ride the Italian Championships and Tour de France

 

[Ferminal]

From the sound of the Hushovd article, surely he's talking about the Giro? Who's looked a bit rum to you guys? Personally, I haven't really seen much to raise an eyebrow. But there's still today and the Gavia to go... (slap them down Carlos!)

Having said that, Liquigas do seem to have become Team of The Year and had to drop Pellizotti. As for Sagan... I hope not, but kind of hard to buy, frankly.

It sounds like it's a "bomb" not just one or two random guys getting pinged.

In which case, Liquigas would be where I look first

 

[Willy_Voet]

Should we merge this thread with that thread?

 

[theswordsman]

Should we merge this thread with that thread?

Nope. I think we're expecting something new and major.