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01-05.-2008, 07:00 PM
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Cyclingnews letters section
I just had to post about this.
http://www.cyclingnews.com.au/lette...08/05-01letters There's so much goodness in these letters, I just don't know where to start. I learnt today that Hamilton and Evans are definitely clean (he can just tell, all the way from Australia), that Millar gave a full confession, that neither Armstrong nor the entire USPS team ever failed a dope test, and the fact that several riders were really really quick up Plateau de Beille last TDF means that the performance of those riders isn't actually that good. I also learnt that if you post a fast time on a never-to-be-repeated, down-hill, tailwind TT, that you are thereby disqualified from talking about a repeat performance on a hill in a mountain stage of the Tour. That god for the readers of Cyclingnews. I haven't learnt so much in a long time.
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01-05.-2008, 09:44 PM
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Re: Cyclingnews letters section
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01-05.-2008, 10:55 PM
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Re: Cyclingnews letters section
You read the cyclingnews letters page? Why do you people do these things to yourselves?
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01-05.-2008, 10:56 PM
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01-05.-2008, 10:58 PM
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Re: Cyclingnews letters section
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2. Some people are gluttons for punishment. |
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01-05.-2008, 11:15 PM
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LOL, that Basso letter was going so well until it mentioned Hamilton... |
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02-05.-2008, 08:09 AM
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0btIj7StmQ - I mean look at him.... no helmet and trying to shake hands with someone in a car ! Has the boy learnt nothing ? |
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16-05.-2008, 06:08 AM
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Re: Cyclingnews letters section
A gem from today's batch:
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16-05.-2008, 06:23 AM
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I grew up in DE and strangely feel some sort of guilt by association, probably because the stupidity of that letter is so far-reaching. |
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16-05.-2008, 07:26 AM
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Re: Cyclingnews letters section
"The no dopers on Astana" line has an astonishing totalitarian regime propaganda feel to it.
Just cos you say it, does not make it so, infact, it is enlightening, even the need to issue such a denial. Think Bush at war, African heads of state with civil wars or overturned elections, Kim Jong Il, etc etc etc. |
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16-05.-2008, 07:26 AM
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16-05.-2008, 07:28 AM
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Re: Cyclingnews letters section
Is cyclingnews bound to publish these kind of stupid letters?
Or are they stupid too?
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16-05.-2008, 12:46 PM
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Re: Cyclingnews letters section
"There are no dopers on Astana" something tells me this is said with a wave of the hand
"These are not the droids you are looking for" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnjaUoR15dU |
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17-05.-2008, 03:11 AM
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Agreed, the "there are no dopers on Astana" quote is way out in left field and pure crap. There are no saints among JB's boys.
However, the guy does have a certain point. Why is Astana the only team punished by not being invited to the Tour while other teams with just as bad and well publicized history of doping, ie CSC, Cofidis, High Road by another name, etc. are all "innocent"? Yes, there's the backroom drama between the UCI, ASO, Astana, JB, the Easter Bunny, Santa, etc, etc. But for the sake of consistency and administering rational rules, if you condemn one for a crime, you have to condemn the other guilty parties for the same crime.
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17-05.-2008, 03:30 AM
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there is doping, and then there is doping. bruyneel was effectively stealing the tour with his transfusions last year. if Levi did not get a mechanical in stage ten or wherever and lost 20 seconds as a sanction, and could have ridden for himself, he would have won the Tour with that last transfused tt. Contador obviously got transfused too. |
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