Hmm,seems like i forgot,2 days ago i WON MY FIRST COBBLESTONES RACE EVER(I am here with few of my teammates,sitting and playing PCM,well they're playing on pirated versions of PCM). I just noticed that i am more and more being some weak Cancellara (won many TT races and this is my first to parcipate and first to win cobblestone race). We was in Serbia firstly practising,they have some amazing mountains,now we're in Poland (tommorow flying to England again) , it's great feeling . Just wanted to share with you some things
Starting 4days race in Scotland next week,daaaamn im so excited. Starting with TT where my teammates and my whole team expect me to win,i feel great but that would be hard,2nd stage is flat and im probably going to be first train guy or do nothing,then 3rd mountain and 4th hilly stage,i am quite good on hills but if i get 1st place at TT it would be pretty easy to save jersey. BTW race is u23. Skipping school! yay
Non relevant news : I'm suffering from concussion since I fell last Saturday. It wasn't such a violent fall, but it seems my head hit the ground quite hard (and my helmet broke). Despite having already suffered from a more serious concussion when I was 11, I'm not going to pass any scanner though, as I've remained conscious all along, and did not throw up.
More interesting news : remember my message a few days ago in this topic about the French senators proceeding to hearings of various anti-doping officials from the present and the past ?
More has come out today.
If you don't remember how L'Équipe nailed Lance Armstrong in 2005 with his EPO-positive samples, the Châtenay-Malabry lab was working on old anonymous samples to better its detection methods. They had tested samples frozen since 1999, and only identified by samples ID. L'Équipe managed to get the dope control samples ID and matched them with Armstrong's.
So, today the news came out that it wasn't only 1999 samples that got tested, but 1998 as well. All of the 14 samples from 1998 tested positive for EPO. Results were more mixed for 1999 (the Festina affair had been there).
The papers allowing to match samples and riders names used to be sent to UCI, the French cycling federation, and CPLD (former AFLD) which was and is related to the French ministry of sports.
So, only AFLD could relate the positive samples to riders name. It's been done. The list exists and is being kept in a safe, somewhere at the minister. One of the guys testifying said he saw it, and the only name he'd call is Pantani's. No big surprise. He probably remembers more names, but won't call them as they're still around and alive.
It could be made public if senators asked AFLD to. But it's not going to happen, as it's not the purpose of their hearings (sounds like Operacion Puerto judge not asking for names, if you ask me).
Yes, this could have belonged to the "news in March" topic, but I started writing about those hearings in this topic last week.
Aquarius wrote:
It could be made public if senators asked AFLD to. But it's not going to happen, as it's not the purpose of their hearings (sounds like Operacion Puerto judge not asking for names, if you ask me).
There's a big difference though. Most, if not all, of those names are already retired, if not dead like Pantani. However, many of Fuentes clients are still active and winning (big) races. Or Rolland Garros. Or the Champions League.
TTspecialist wrote:
Hmm,seems like i forgot,2 days ago i WON MY FIRST COBBLESTONES RACE EVER(I am here with few of my teammates,sitting and playing PCM,well they're playing on pirated versions of PCM). I just noticed that i am more and more being some weak Cancellara (won many TT races and this is my first to parcipate and first to win cobblestone race). We was in Serbia firstly practising,they have some amazing mountains,now we're in Poland (tommorow flying to England again) , it's great feeling . Just wanted to share with you some things
TTspecialist wrote:
Hmm,seems like i forgot,2 days ago i WON MY FIRST COBBLESTONES RACE EVER(I am here with few of my teammates,sitting and playing PCM,well they're playing on pirated versions of PCM). I just noticed that i am more and more being some weak Cancellara (won many TT races and this is my first to parcipate and first to win cobblestone race). We was in Serbia firstly practising,they have some amazing mountains,now we're in Poland (tommorow flying to England again) , it's great feeling . Just wanted to share with you some things
TTspecialist wrote:
Hmm,seems like i forgot,2 days ago i WON MY FIRST COBBLESTONES RACE EVER(I am here with few of my teammates,sitting and playing PCM,well they're playing on pirated versions of PCM). I just noticed that i am more and more being some weak Cancellara (won many TT races and this is my first to parcipate and first to win cobblestone race). We was in Serbia firstly practising,they have some amazing mountains,now we're in Poland (tommorow flying to England again) , it's great feeling . Just wanted to share with you some things
You know you're obsessed with cycling when you start dreaming about cycling.
Really, I'm a boring person, this was my dream: I was watching television and it was The Ronde. Voeckler and Boonen attacked. It was quite a nice race, actually
Ian Butler wrote:
You know you're obsessed with cycling when you start dreaming about cycling.
Really, I'm a boring person, this was my dream: I was watching television and it was The Ronde. Voeckler and Boonen attacked. It was quite a nice race, actually
Talk about timing: I just finish my task, open my door and see the mail man in the street. "A package for you, sir". What's this? OH right, GTA IV I ordered for ps3. Then 6 hours locked up in my room
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