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| issoisso |
Posted on 19-09-2007 14:08
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that doesn't mean I still can't be a strange person 
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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
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| mrlol |
Posted on 19-09-2007 14:23
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I'm getting suspicious now  |
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| CrueTrue |
Posted on 19-09-2007 20:24
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I read somewhere that Jörg Jaksche has now received his sentence - 1 year away from cycling.
And with Guerini's Vuelta-exit today, he has now ended his career after 15 years of pro cycling. |
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| Levi4life |
Posted on 19-09-2007 20:24
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https://www.velonews.com/news/fea/1334...349.0.html
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| Crommy |
Posted on 19-09-2007 22:41
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Grand Tours will no longer form part of the ProTour
https://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?i.../sep20news
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| issoisso |
Posted on 19-09-2007 22:59
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that won't matter. the ASO still won't accept ProTour teams at their events. same goes for Unipublic and others. the ASO won't be happy unless they have complete and total control over all cycling.
Unipublic and the others will fall in line because they're like satellites to the ASO. whatever Clerc says goes...
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| CrueTrue |
Posted on 20-09-2007 07:10
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Why don't they just give up the Pro Tour? |
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| issoisso |
Posted on 20-09-2007 10:01
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CrueTrue wrote:
Why don't they just give up the Pro Tour?
the ProTour has a lot of bad things. but the alternative is going back to the stone age of cycling. where the teams have little power and the riders have no power at all. where the race organisers rule everything.
as for the fans, I certainly wouldn't want to go back to races populated by a dozen small teams that do nothing.
There's one thing no one can deny: the races have turned much more exciting and the participating fields are far better.
sure, it has quite a few flaws, but do you want to regress just because one organisation pouted?
We've been in this crap so long, that people are losing perspective and looking at this as normal, so to put things in perspective:
if the Chinese olympic comitee suddenly decided they wanted to be the new Internationational Olympic Comitee and that they were going to be the only ones with power to decide anything, just because the olympics will be held there. do you think we should let them? I think not...
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| CrueTrue |
Posted on 20-09-2007 13:48
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I agree that the professionalism in cycling is good. However, you still need to cooperate with the organizers, and I don't think UCI has succeded in that. ASO don't want to decide everything in cycling. Basically, they just want to be allowed to invite a few teams themselves. The solution would be to lower the amount of PT-teams, so that the race organizers could invite a few teams themselves.
Actually, that was proposed looong ago, but UCI never listened. |
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| Aquarius |
Posted on 20-09-2007 14:02
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True. And anyway, how many Pro Tour teams are really interested in participating in every single PT event ? Very few, if there's any...
Many teams with no interest use the Giro or the Vuelta to send their youngest riders there, making them useless teams (no offense to young riders here). Also : what are Euskaltel doing in Paris-Roubaix ?
And what's the point of having useless races like Plouay, Eneco Tour, Poland Tour, in the Pro Tour ? Teams are not interested (except for the home ones maybe).
Make the Pro Tour run with 12 teams or something like that, and a lighter schedule, and it could work. |
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| issoisso |
Posted on 20-09-2007 14:03
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CrueTrue wrote:
I agree that the professionalism in cycling is good. However, you still need to cooperate with the organizers, and I don't think UCI has succeded in that. ASO don't want to decide everything in cycling. Basically, they just want to be allowed to invite a few teams themselves. The solution would be to lower the amount of PT-teams, so that the race organizers could invite a few teams themselves.
Actually, that was proposed looong ago, but UCI never listened.
I don't buy that. the UCI have never honoured any agreements they've made. I don't think they'd start now. they've also said many times they want to choose all the teams. which is simply idiotic. unfortunately it will happen, so get ready to see Auber 93 and the likes at the Tour.
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| Aquarius |
Posted on 20-09-2007 14:34
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Le Tour is a bit special since it's THE race every one (or almost) would like to be in.
But races like Giro or Vuelta won't be worst with smaller teams from the country than with Pro Tour teams who don't give a damn about the race. |
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 20-09-2007 19:28
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Floyd Landis' appeal is denied! FINALLY!
Pereiro is the 2006 TdF winner.
A 2 year ban is expected, the date to start from the end of the 2006 tour, so theoretically Landis could be racing again in August 2008.
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| Addy291 |
Posted on 20-09-2007 19:29
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SportingNonsense wrote:
Floyd Landis' appeal is denied! FINALLY!
Pereiro is the 2006 TdF winner.
A 2 year ban is expected, the date to start from the end of the 2006 tour, so theoretically Landis could be racing again in August 2008.
YORKSHIRE BORN, YORKSHIRE BRED... |
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| CrueTrue |
Posted on 20-09-2007 19:32
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Finally! Justice!
What's your source? |
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| Addy291 |
Posted on 20-09-2007 19:33
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i have found it on the BBC
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 20-09-2007 19:35
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Cyclingnews.com for me
Probably more detailed than BBC
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| Addy291 |
Posted on 20-09-2007 19:36
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and i have also found it on SkySports
but as Sporting says, cyclingnews.com will be more detailed
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| CrueTrue |
Posted on 20-09-2007 19:37
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It's also on the Danish news now. Fantastic! |
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| doddy13 |
Posted on 20-09-2007 19:37
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From Cycling Weekly (website)
Associated Press reports claim that Floyd Landis has lost his doping case over the Tour de France 2006.
Arbitrators ruled that tests on the 2006 Tour de France champion that showed he had used synthetic testosterone were valid.
The decision leaves Landis with just one option, the Court of Arbitration of Sport - also due to be used in the Alejandro Valverde case in the World Championships, agency reports said this Thursday.
The four-month case was lost by Landis, AP said, in a 2-1 vote. Landis is now subject to a two-year ban, effective from January 30th 2007. Should he not appeal, Landis will be the first person in the history of the Tour de France to lose the title because of a doping offence.
"Justice has been done." UCI president Pat McQuaid told AP. "We'll now wait and see if he appeals to CAS."
There's no point slapping a schleck - Sean Kelly on "Who needs a slap"
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