The Hitch said:Awesome. Tom Boonen is on the forum
Pff clearly it's Tom Danielson. I hear this year could be his year.
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The Hitch said:Awesome. Tom Boonen is on the forum
A) They can't be worse. B) the currently elected clowns are unaccountable.Mambo95 said:3. Why do people think that the ASO/RCS would be any better than the UCI? They are profit making companies and as such are unelected and unaccountable to the sport. Their only obligation is to the shareholders. This isn't a recipe for a corruption free sport.
Mambo95 said:Three points on this:
1. First of all, no-one's been stripped of their licence. The UCI have just said they'll consider it, as they should. I doubt anyone will be stripped of anything. This seems like a warning shot to me -'hire returning dopers at your own peril'.
Mambo95 said:2. There's a fundamental difference between the Ricco and Contador cases. Namely that Contador wasn't a Saxo rider when he tested positive. Nor did Saxo know about it when they signed him. Saxo can't be blamed.
On the other hand Ricco was a Vacansoleil rider when he had his recent troubles, plus had a previous sanction against him.
Tommyvs said:I'm not sure if you're referring to my remarks on that,
Angliru said:...and what was Mosquera's background prior to joining Vaconsoleil that makes it questionable? I must be missing something.
dougzz99 said:Suddenly on the podium in a GT in his thirties. Never racing outside Spain (that notoriously anti-doping paradise). Do you think HTC or Garmin would have signed him? I'm not suggesting this is evidence for a ban, just that sometimes you know signing a certain person will bring trouble. If like Vacansoleil you sign two people with very suspect records, you're asking for trouble.
Take Di Luca, the riules are such that it's fine to sign him, I have a problem with that, but hey that's the rules. But given he's now served two bans for doping would you put your trust in him being clean?
I'm not trying to have a big anti-doping rant here, just pointing out that some riders come with a lot more baggage than others, and if you sign them you can't be surprised when it all goes belly up.
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/mosquera-doping-case-still-undecidedThe Dutch outfit secured its ProTeam licence thanks largely to the points accrued by Mosquera's results last season - before he was signed by the team.
hector5950 said:Why don't the teams, riders, ASO and RSC get together and form a cycling program outside of the UCI? They would control all the riders, the top teams and the overwhelming majority of the top races. Set up their own deal and tell the UCI to pound sand.