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Old 17-05.-2008, 12:17 AM   #151
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And of course the interesting factor of which we have no insight is the transfusing situation of the various riders. Hard to say exactly where any of these riders are if you can get dozens of watts improvement within a few hours by filling up the tank.

I'm still highly skeptical that it isn't going on with the big riders.

Yea, I have to say that I am not on any Di Luca bandwagon. He has an intimate relationship with a centrifuge somewhere in his life. I just beat on Levi, Contadope, and the Hog because their stalkers seem to believe the lie that they win clean with the most infuriating intensity.
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Old 22-05.-2008, 07:09 AM   #152
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Nah...it is Berlusconi gift…

New old prime minister Berlusconi which replaced Prodi made one call to old friend president Nazarbaev …also Nazarbaev kaz military minister - second powerful man in kazastan is president to kaz federcilismo …he wrote letter to Berlusconi and cc.toItalian federciclismo…also Italian Eni own 30% of kaz oil field….
In an interview, the Vice-President of the Kazakh Cycling Federation claims Astana is in the Giro because of the president of that federation personally (that would still be Daniyal Akhmetov, I presume http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniyal_Akhmetov ). So political pressure seems very probable.

The article in russian: http://www.sports.kz/news.php?id=0000002623&type=main&st=0000000026

The Vice-President also has sevaral other really "interesting" (or disturbing) comments, on why Astana had problems last year (western conspiracy), on Vinokourov, the role of Astana, Bruyneel etc.

I don't understand russian, and the google translation is not very good, but from what I can understand, the whole thing really, really stinks.
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