Beloki would have fit right in...

mattp71

With all the other so called 'tour contenders' that forgot to pedal there bikes in June when they saw Armstrong lose 2 minutes on the Ventoux TT. Lance sandbagged that TT, and it worked brilliantly. Too brilliantly.

Next year the society of the tour will make Lance ride the tour on a unicycle, and even then he would probably find a way to win.

Beloki should have showed up, ran his mouth like the others, get dropped on all the mountains, then go home after they fall an hour behind on gc.

Miguel_garcia83

beloki has just signed for saunier duval team

sopas

My God, another ignorant. Beloki nave has had a bad word about Armstrong. He didn't show up in this year's TdF, simply because he did not have time to recover in time from his crash in the 2003 TdF. So you should keep your mouth shut my friend.

keydates

Aww, he's just trying to get attention.

Miguel_garcia83

well, to be honest he didnt ride the tour because he has asthma and his team didnt let him to use a madicament against it
i dont know why beloki cant use medication against asthma and armstrong can against cancer

musette

Because LA used the medication for cancer BEFORE he resumed cycling, and not DURING the applicable race.

Because there is a range of asthma medication, but LA's cancerS (there were multiple) were so advanced that he needed experimental drugs in order to both try to battle cancer and not permanently undermine LA's ability to be a cylist.

Because LA did not have a team (like BLB) that decided LA should not be taking the applicable medication. In fact, LA had just signed with Cofidis when he learned he had testicular and other cancers, and Cofidis never onece suggested LA shouldn't be taking his life-saving cancer medication.

Because cancer is not a condition (like asthma) that doping cyclists sometimes claim they have.

Miguel_garcia83

beloki had the permission of UCI to take ventolin, but maybe you are right, maybe he was pretending to have asthma, after all maybe armstrong was pretending about all the cancer thing too

musette

Removed as double post

musette

It was Beloki's team BLB that did not let him take the asthma medication. That it was indicated to be alright by the UCI does not mean the team didn't have that choice to decide what its riders should be permitted to use or not.

Miguel_garcia83

the regulation in france is a bit special about this, thats why la boulangere couldnt give it to him, and thats why le tour didnt want him nor igor gonzález ride in le tour although they had the permission of UCI

musette

So BLB should have gone against French regulations and the Tour's desires? How persuasive an argument.

Miguel_garcia83

no they didnt, thats why beloki left la boulangere

musette

Exactly. But the reason that Beloki is not in this year's TdF is, frankly, more than the asthma medication issue. He hadn't fully recovered and gotten back to form, after his crash from last year. He was also worried about BLB's participation/resources relating to the upcoming Pro tour.

Miguel_garcia83

if he had got his level of 2003 back, and according to the "parcours", we would have had a fantastic tour, because beloki had turned into an offensive rider, i am sure he would have been at least 2nd