The riders aren't surprised

[craig1985]

According to Yohann Offredo.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

What did Savio say about Rebellin again?

 

[erader]

According to Yohann Offredo.

WTF is that? he must be lower than whale**** in the peloton. never heard of him ... but like warhol said .

erader

 

[roundabout]

It's wonderfully refreshing to read that compared to the usual circling of the wagons from the stakeholders

 

[Christian]

never heard of him ... but like warhol said .

Now EVERYONE knows him. Weird how things go sometimes ...

 

[Anonymous]

When Bertie walks I wonder if he'll chase down Offredo's break while in the yellow jersey?

 

[indurain666]

hahaha...considering that he is a protour pro cyclist (i.e.another big time juicer), this Offredo or whatever the heck his name is, is a piece of work.

 

[roundabout]

^^^ we're slowly moving into Armstrong fanboy territory where everybody does it ^^^

 

[Stavros]

I don't understand people who post in this forum sometimes. Everyone seems to come down hard on dopers but then when someone like Offredo pops his head out to give his opinion, because he hasn't juiced himself up to buggary and "won" 4 grand tours, his opinion carries no weight?? If you want to clean up the sport, you have to start respecting the opinions of the more or less, dope free guys that love the sport and don't want to hurt it by doping, and although it kills them, are happy to just ride without extreme glory, enjoy the sport and not dope. Of course I don't know what he has ever taken, but I suspect someone on Offredo's salary would get popped straight away if they were, because they can't afford to do it properly.
I have so much respect for the lowly bottle carrier / domestique guys.
Plus I have urinated next to Yohan and he seemed like a nice bloke Unfortunately I wasn't quick enough to grab a urine sample . . .

 

[luckyboy]

hahaha...considering that he is a protour pro cyclist (i.e.another big time juicer), this Offredo or whatever the heck his name is, is a piece of work.

lol, you don't get 2nd in the Tour de la Somme on bread and water do you?

 

[goggalor]

“We’re not unduly surprised. A little [surprised] about the Clenbuterol because we’d really have expected something else. It’s like the tree that hides the forest."

That's a good way of putting it.

 

[soOpOSMthanks!]

Well...who ISN'T suprised? Or more so...why WOULDN'T one be surprised? If I gave cycling and doping an idiom it would be; Does a bear **** in the woods?

 

[washedup]

“....It’s like the tree that hides the forest."

You are right goggalor, an excellent way to put it. It was a very witty line.

These guys are the ones who are most impacted by dopers. It is good to see some folks getting ****ed after being robbed for so many years.

 

[Roland Rat]

Well...who ISN'T suprised? Or more so...why WOULDN'T one be surprised? If I gave cycling and doping an idiom it would be; Does a bear **** in the woods?

Or as Mrs Rat (a non-cyclist) put it: "Cyclist takes drugs? You call that "news"?"

 

[Alpe d'Huez]

Well there is another rider in that article that took a stand. The guy whose name appears in the headlines of the article.

While I may not fully trust Chavanel even (call me jaded), I give him props for making a statement like this at this time. We definitely need more people like he, or Offredo, to go on the record like this, as the omerta is as much of a problem as doping itself.

 

[erader]

I don't understand people who post in this forum sometimes. Everyone seems to come down hard on dopers but then when someone like Offredo pops his head out to give his opinion, because he hasn't juiced himself up to buggary and "won" 4 grand tours, his opinion carries no weight?? If you want to clean up the sport, you have to start respecting the opinions of the more or less, dope free guys that love the sport and don't want to hurt it by doping, and although it kills them, are happy to just ride without extreme glory, enjoy the sport and not dope. Of course I don't know what he has ever taken, but I suspect someone on Offredo's salary would get popped straight away if they were, because they can't afford to do it properly.
I have so much respect for the lowly bottle carrier / domestique guys.
Plus I have urinated next to Yohan and he seemed like a nice bloke Unfortunately I wasn't quick enough to grab a urine sample . . .

offredo is purportedly speaking for "the riders" if one is to believe the headline. even david millar has expressed shock and support for contador.

i sure as hell was surprised contador got popped and i believe they all dope. if you think anything a nobody has to say will help "clean up the sport" you are either extremely naive or very new to the sport.

you can take this to the bank: cyclists will be doping long after they are throwing dirt on you and me. i absolutely guarantee it .

erader

 

[erader]

Well there is another rider in that article that took a stand. The guy whose name appears in the headlines of the article.

While I may not fully trust Chavanel even (call me jaded), I give him props for making a statement like this at this time. We definitely need more people like he, or Offredo, to go on the record like this, as the omerta is as much of a problem as doping itself.

ya think bradley wiggins or taylor phinney will speak out against contador? you know they have been outspoken against dopers.

erader

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

hahaha...considering that he is a protour pro cyclist (i.e.another big time juicer), this Offredo or whatever the heck his name is, is a piece of work.

Stop being a fanboy.

 

[Anonymous]

ya think bradley wiggins or taylor phinney will speak out against contador? you know they have been outspoken against dopers.

erader

Taylor had a subtle, this is why i dont even take vitamins dig on twitter, but didnt accuse him of doping. And brad is the subject of a gagging order

 

[NashbarShorts]

Taylor had a subtle, this is why i dont even take vitamins dig on twitter, but didnt accuse him of doping. And brad is the subject of a gagging order

Think he was referring to Phinney's twit earlier this season about how Vino should go to hell (paraphrasing)... he later retracted it after Uncle Pelota told him how the world works..

 

[Alpe d'Huez]

ya think bradley wiggins or taylor phinney will speak out against contador? you know they have been outspoken against dopers.

I hope they do. But I'd use the word "selectively" in there. As in "...they have been selectively outspoken against dopers..."

 

[erader]

Saxo Bank’s Andy Schleck is arguably the person who would have the most to gain from Contador’s disqualification, since he would automatically take one step up to the top of the podium. Rather than celebrate the possibility of his first ever Tour victory though, the Luxembourger is standing behind his friend.

“What a crazy day in cycling with the news about Contador,” he said via his Twitter page, “ I only heard about it in the press I hope he is innocent and I think he deserves the right to defend himself now.”

Czech rider Roman Kreuziger, currently at Liquigas-Doimo but due to replace Contador at Astana in 2011, was equally surprised by the news. “I'm back after train home and had saw bad news about Contador,” he tweeted, “hope he is innocent!”

The news has also surprised a number of former riders; Laurent Jalabert, the most successful French rider of recent years spoke to RMC.

“We remain, as I do, incredulous at this announcement,” said the 1995 Vuelta a España winner. “You would have thought that it was a joke, but at the same time it was already so well known that we know that it’s possible. It’s a big surprise anyway; we did not expect this one.”

Currently at the World Championships in Melbourne Australia Cedric Vasseur, president of the International Professional Cyclists Association (CPA), expressed his views on the subject via Twitter. The former rider, who won two stages of the tour and wore the yellow jersey in 1997, commented, not on the possible explanations for Contador’s positive, but on the inevitable consequences for a sport.

“Whatever the outcome of the Contador case, cycling is ridiculed in the eyes of the World once again… Bravo!”

http://www.velonation.com/News/ID/5...Damsgaard-Michel-Audran-and-riders-react.aspx

erader

 

[indurain666]

^^^ we're slowly moving into Armstrong fanboy territory where everybody does it ^^^

Me a fanboy of Lance?? Ouch..now that really hurt my feelings...just for the record: I am a hater...big time hater

 

[craig1985]

I hope they do. But I'd use the word "selectively" in there. As in "...they have been selectively outspoken against dopers..."

They obviously have been taking lessons from David Millar.

 

[laziali]

i sure as hell was surprised contador got popped and i believe they all dope. if you think anything a nobody has to say will help "clean up the sport" you are either extremely naive or very new to the sport.

erader

That would be Pharmstrong fanboy excuse #473. Not cool.