issoisso wrote:
Flaminia and De Rosa, all their powers combined, are becoming Captain Planet
Heine wrote:
Wonder where Voeckler are going if the team stops. I can't really picture him anywhere else, he's Mr.Boygues Telecom (spelling?) for me
For the longest time I've had the feeling he'll end up at Saur
Swaying between Cofidis and Saur, indeed. Funnily enough, I could picture him at Cofidis for ever, if he had to leave Bouygues one day.
He said he's also contemplating foreign teams, but I seriously doubt he'll go there.
issoisso wrote:
According to Professor Verner Møller, the UCI has a "blacklist" of riders they strongly "advise" teams not to sign. They take the initiative of going up to teams wanting to sign these riders and saying "don't. just don't."
Among the list is Rasmussen, who Katusha, Astana and Fuji have wanted to sign in the past.
Odd. Very odd.
Now, what we wish we had is the list... If only we could read it...
issoisso wrote:
According to Professor Verner Møller, the UCI has a "blacklist" of riders they strongly "advise" teams not to sign. They take the initiative of going up to teams wanting to sign these riders and saying "don't. just don't."
Among the list is Rasmussen, who Katusha, Astana and Fuji have wanted to sign in the past.
Odd. Very odd.
That hardly seems fair. And frankly quite shady of the UCI if it is true. If they have a case against a rider they should try to ban them. Otherwise they should allow the riders to find a team while being monitored closely.
issoisso wrote:
According to Professor Verner Møller, the UCI has a "blacklist" of riders they strongly "advise" teams not to sign. They take the initiative of going up to teams wanting to sign these riders and saying "don't. just don't."
Among the list is Rasmussen, who Katusha, Astana and Fuji have wanted to sign in the past.
Odd. Very odd.
Although I wouldn't put it past the UCI to have such a list, this particular professor, iirc, has always seemed pretty interested in the case of Michael Rasmussen, having always been on his side, even when it was clear he'd done wrong
It would be against European employment law for UCI to do that, and if proven to have happened, any rider affected by it could sue the UCI, so I can't imagine it would happen.
issoisso wrote:
According to Professor Verner Møller, the UCI has a "blacklist" of riders they strongly "advise" teams not to sign. They take the initiative of going up to teams wanting to sign these riders and saying "don't. just don't."
Among the list is Rasmussen, who Katusha, Astana and Fuji have wanted to sign in the past.
Odd. Very odd.
As someone else mentioned, you shouldn't take Verner Møller seriously. He has lost all credibility and is in general a weird guy.
I guess there's more to this team than meets the eye
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"I love him, I think he's great. He's transformed the sport in so many ways. Every person in cycling has benefitted from Lance Armstrong, perhaps not financially but in some sense" - Bradley Wiggins on Lance Armstrong
"I love him, I think he's great. He's transformed the sport in so many ways. Every person in cycling has benefitted from Lance Armstrong, perhaps not financially but in some sense" - Bradley Wiggins on Lance Armstrong
Ok then.
I guess this video explains my situation. Well mostly the humour bit. And yes I know your not German.
Spoiler
As in I'm don't get that humour. I found the joke moderately funny, but apparently it wasn't supposed to be funny and the smiley mocks the unfunny-ness of the joke.
Has it been mentioned that Pierre Bordry has been forced to resign from the French Anti Doping Agency? He's quite critical. A few quotes from this article: https://www.velonation.com/News/ID/581...oping.aspx
“There is no political will to support the fight against doping,” he said.
“You can’t pay tribute to Lance Armstrong without acknowledging the doubts that hang over his performance,” said Bordry.
“There was even a minister who asked us not to deal with the Landis case,” he claimed, referring to former Sports Minister Jean-François Lamour, who also sat on the committee of WADA between 2004 and 2007, “three days before the meeting where we instructed his case in disciplinary terms.
Spanish radio had just announced that Contador had been catch on a dopping test in the TdF.
I will try to find a better seed... but it looks bad!!
Edited by pesci on 30-09-2010 00:13
pesci wrote:
Spanish radio had just announced that Contador had been catch on a dopping test in the TdF.
I will try to find a better seed... but it looks bad!!
You will be missed.
