More Tour de France Doping in 07

[Maffew]

So last year it was Floyd Landis testing positive for high testosterone levels.
This year it is Alexandre Vinokourov getting transfusions of other peoples blood to boost his red blood cell level.
His whole cycling team packed up and left after the news broke.

This year was suppose to be a new year and a new start for the tour.
All the riders signed anti-doping contracts beforehand.
Oh well.

I'm a little upset.


The story: http://www.velonews.com/tour2007/details/articles/12910.0.html

[zartan]

i read a pretty comprehensive article in the new yorker a year or so ago about how pervasive doping is and how impossible it is to compete without it. sad but i can't imagine looking at cycling records and taking them at all seriously any time in the recent past or forseeable future.

[oh no its nick]

i read a pretty comprehensive article in the new yorker a year or so ago about how pervasive doping is and how impossible it is to compete without it. sad but i can't imagine looking at cycling records and taking them at all seriously any time in the recent past or forseeable future.

Yeah, it's pretty much inescapable. Just sucks that it really hurts the sport and its credibility...the 3 big races in Europe are all amazing events to watch and follow (cycling is a fucking awesome sport as is) but so many people get turned off to it because of these guys trying to circumvent the rules.

[maynard]

This is right up there alongside David Beckham's ankle injury on the Meh-O-Meter as far as sports in this country go.

[mattb]

Cycling's governing body should move into the modern era and do away with the anti-doping rules for the good of the sport.

[Don Miguel Lush]

is not that they allow it to happen or ignore it.

most of "doping technology" and new techniques to get doped up without testing positive, and those tricks, come from cycling.
also, most dope tests, come from the UCI.

cycling team doctors have revolutionized the way we know doping.

[Maffew]

More B.S.

http://www.versus.com/tdf/

Rasmussen is out.

and,

"former Italian Champion, Christian Moreni, had tested positive during a spot check on Stage 11 for synthetic testosterone."
"Moreni finished this afternoon and was then taken away by handcuffs by French police."

why handcuffs damn it?


"Drugs are bad, mmmmk." lol

south park


"Tomorrow is going to be a strange day." as in 7/26/07

No shit!

[oh no its nick]

3 teams out in 24 hours

i wanted contadour to lead it, but not this way. this blows.

[Maffew]

I don't care about the Tour de France that much.
I just feel sorry for the sponsors and the people that depend on this event and other events for jobs.

[oh no its nick]

I don't care about the Tour de France that much.
I just feel sorry for the sponsors and the people that depend on this event and other events for jobs.

I also sympathize for the teammates. Well the ones that are clean. Guys busted their asses for days through thick and thin carrying and supporting the leaders.

[PaulieWalnuts]

I don't see how getting blood transfusions would be doping because doping means drugs; blood isn't a drug, right?

[Don Miguel Lush]

I don't see how getting blood transfusions would be doping because doping means drugs; blood isn't a drug, right?
wrong
dope comes from dopamine which is naturally produced substance that cranks you up. so does extra red blood cells, which is why they take blood transfusions.

[PaulieWalnuts]

Ohhhhhhhh...! Wow... that's kinda scandalous!