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| Addy291 |
Posted on 24-11-2007 12:08
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no idea whether this has been mentioned but just saw it in "today's news" on cyclingnews
Patrik Sinkewitz was supposed to ride the World Championships in the year 2000 as a junior, but was sent home shortly before the race due to "illness." He has now admitted to the Süddeutsche Zeitung that the "illness" was actually a questionable haemitocrat value due to the use of EPO.
Sinkewitz said that when he joined the national junior team he spoke with then-trainer Peter Weibel about using EPO. Wiebel did not encourage him to use, but he also did not discourage him, Sinkewitz said. He bought it himself at a pharmacy and injected himself. Weibel knew that he was using the forbidden substance, he claimed, and tested the rider's blood himself.
While in Plouay preparing for the race, Weibel tested Sinkewitz' blood often, and the values were "always in the questionable area". When the results were still questionable before the time trial, "he told me, you'd better go home."
Sinkewitz turned pro with Team Quick.Step in 2001, and the doping continued there, he claimed. "At Quick.Step everything was taken care of and everyone knew who, what and how. That was systematic doping." When asked if team manager Patrick Lefevere also was aware of what was going on, the 27 year-old replied, "Lefevere is a bit naive in a certain way, but that he didn't know what was going on? He must have known what was happening. He's been involved for 30 years, let's not fool ourselves."
The former T-Mobile rider still hopes to return to the peloton, but admitted that it might be difficult to find a team. In that case, though, he has proposed a possible alternative. His attorney is Michael Lehner, who also represents Jörg Jaksche, who is also currently serving a doping - related suspension. Lehner and Jaksche "have started discussing the idea of whether they couldn't set up their own team. With a junior team, too, and above it a team with 'the dopers', those who have gone public with it. A real new start."
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| CrueTrue |
Posted on 24-11-2007 18:28
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Jaksche and Sinkewitz starting a new team?  Well, then they can bring on Basso, Rasmussen, etc. to the team too. Would be interesting  |
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| ruben |
Posted on 24-11-2007 21:46
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we dutch invented a new name for Leukemans after his excuse:
Bjorn Neukemans (dutch word neuken means to fuck...) |
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| issoisso |
Posted on 24-11-2007 21:51
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Ruben we have children in this forum. as such I demand you use the politically correct term "make love"
as in "I hope Leukemans gets 4 years for this, preferably in some random Angolan prison where he is repeatedly made love to by a 500 pound inmate"
(you can just tell I've hated Leukemans for years, can't you?)
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| CrueTrue |
Posted on 25-11-2007 10:11
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Sastre has announced that he'll once again do both the Tour and the Vuelta.
(*sigh* I can't help thinking that he'd do better if he focused on one grand tour only) |
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| ruben |
Posted on 25-11-2007 14:43
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https://www.marca....61499.html
Interview with Contador. He named his big rivals for the tour: "Evans and my teammates Leipheimer and Klöden...and the young Andy Schleck and... if he keeps exploding (getting better)..Thomas Dekker. Besides them also riders as Sastre, Valverde abd Menchov". |
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| Levi4life |
Posted on 25-11-2007 22:39
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https://www.slipstreamsports.com/news....ase_id=105
My team got a 2500 dollar sponsorship and a bike for our most outstanding cyclist.
Hopefully I am outstanding enough cause my bike is a pile of crap.
Edited by Levi4life on 25-11-2007 22:53
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Posted on 23-11-2024 20:52
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| CrueTrue |
Posted on 26-11-2007 10:06
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Theo de Rooij will tell his version of the Rasmussen-case on the 3rd of December. |
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| Aquarius |
Posted on 26-11-2007 11:02
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CrueTrue wrote:
Jaksche and Sinkewitz starting a new team? Well, then they can bring on Basso, Rasmussen, etc. to the team too. Would be interesting Bith the German confessed and explained, whereas Basso & all fooled every one ("I hid in Italy because of my wife, she's terrific you know" ; "yeah, all right, I gave blood to Fuentes, but I never had the intention to use it" .
Basso & Rasmussen would fit much better at LPR. |
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| samtheman |
Posted on 26-11-2007 11:11
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The Idea of this team was to help young cyclists not to start doping(so they will have a youth team and a pro team) and to help riders who have doped but confessed/want to help stop doping because they wouldn't find a team otherwise. Something like that. At least thats what I heard.
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| CrueTrue |
Posted on 26-11-2007 20:17
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There are still lots of problems at Astana. As I mentioned some weeks ago, rider wages to non-Kazakh riders have not been paid since August, and when counting, the team now got 31 riders which is 1 more than the "legal" amount. Several riders have said that there is no communication between the old riders and the new management who only takes care of their "old-new" riders.
If not all of this is fixed before the 15th of December, the team will lose its PT-license.
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Stefan Schumacher has now presented his blood values which resulted in a positive test during the World Championship. They indicate that he was not doped
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According to some rumours, Vladimir Putin is negotiating about making a Tour of Russia. Also, Russia will be aiming at hosting the Pro Tour final next year. Pat McQuaid has confirmed this today (in the Guardian), and also says that he's negotiating with China. |
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| ruben |
Posted on 26-11-2007 21:03
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Believe it or not, the Dutch cyclist of the year awards were 1 big joke, AGAIN
Lars Boom won, not Thomas Dekker (winner of 7 races among them romandie), not Theo Bos (world champion on track)...but Boom, winner of some U23 world titles, one of them in a Belgian folklore sport
Gesink talent of the year, Vos woman cyclist of the year |
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| Alejandro_Valverde |
Posted on 26-11-2007 21:10
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CrueTrue wrote:
According to some rumours, Vladimir Putin is negotiating about making a Tour of Russia. Also, Russia will be aiming at hosting the Pro Tour final next year.
Pro Tour Final in Russia??? It's in late October. Isn't a bit cold there???
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| ruben |
Posted on 26-11-2007 22:03
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riders in the snoooooow |
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| Panaflex |
Posted on 26-11-2007 22:37
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Russia is slightly bigger than Hungary or the Netherlands in case you didn't know.
And no, it usually doesn't snow in October not even in Moscow, not last time I was there anyway.
Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.Lance
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| issoisso |
Posted on 26-11-2007 22:49
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CrueTrue wrote:
According to some rumours, Vladimir Putin is negotiating about making a Tour of Russia. Also, Russia will be aiming at hosting the Pro Tour final next year. Pat McQuaid has confirmed this today (in the Guardian), and also says that he's negotiating with China.
"Pro Tour Final?" huh?
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riders in the snoooooow
references to non-existing bands are against forum rules, section 8, paragraph 3b
Edited by issoisso on 26-11-2007 22:50
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| ruben |
Posted on 26-11-2007 22:55
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fuck you
section 5, paragraph 4d on allowed swear words |
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| issoisso |
Posted on 26-11-2007 23:31
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aaaah you can just feel the love in the air
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| Spronx |
Posted on 27-11-2007 00:14
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ok maybe some1 can shed some light on this, a friend told me barloworld are not gona be in the pro tour next year because of not having the finances to buy a protour licence!! any news bout the situation ops:
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| ruben |
Posted on 27-11-2007 00:17
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nobody in here would possible have thought seriously barloworld could get into the pro tour in the first place
so no suprise there |
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