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| Setzel |
Posted on 03-04-2008 13:43
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Matt put the img right 
Eating my daily Breakfast at 9 pm
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| matt493 |
Posted on 03-04-2008 13:49
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This looks more like lying but oh well.
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| matt493 |
Posted on 03-04-2008 13:55
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Ok I will add only one more and them I'm done but I found one more.
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| Aquarius |
Posted on 03-04-2008 13:55
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issoisso wrote:
Aquarius wrote:
We need true champions like him, you're right.
We really really REALLY need a sarcasms smiley. Mike, are you reading? Using a smiley right after a sarcasm makes it lose almost all its value.  |
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| issoisso |
Posted on 03-04-2008 18:14
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The tour of shenandoah has been cancelled 
Less importantly, so has the Tour of Megalomania (america, whatever)
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| Levi4life |
Posted on 04-04-2008 03:05
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CAS has a new head honcho and it isn't Pound. As long as it isn't Pound i don't care who they are.
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| t-baum |
Posted on 04-04-2008 04:24
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setzel wrote:
Di Luca Petta Bettini and all the "great" italians are not doped 
I don't care if Bettini is doped, watching him go down that downhill at Giro di Lombardia made me a fan
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"We all know that wasn't the real footage of the Worlds anyway. That was just the staged footage to perpetuate the coverup that it was actually Vinokourov that won the race." |
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| t-baum |
Posted on 04-04-2008 04:25
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issoisso wrote:
The tour of shenandoah has been cancelled
Less importantly, so has the Tour of Megalomania (america, whatever)
It hasn't been canceled, just set back a year.
Macquet wrote:
"We all know that wasn't the real footage of the Worlds anyway. That was just the staged footage to perpetuate the coverup that it was actually Vinokourov that won the race."
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| issoisso |
Posted on 04-04-2008 07:05
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t-baum wrote:
issoisso wrote:
The tour of shenandoah has been cancelled
Less importantly, so has the Tour of Megalomania (america, whatever)
It hasn't been canceled, just set back a year.
I meant this year's editions. sorry, should've been clearer
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| CrueTrue |
Posted on 04-04-2008 08:57
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Levi4life wrote:
CAS has a new head honcho and it isn't Pound. As long as it isn't Pound i don't care who they are.
He wasn't even close. He got 9 votes, and his rival got 19 or something like that (I read it yesterday evening, so I don't remember the exact result) |
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| CrueTrue |
Posted on 04-04-2008 23:20
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Riders have still not been paid prize money for TdF 07 
From Cyclingnews.com
Amid threats of legal action, the Association of Professional Cyclists (CPA) asked again for an explanation from the French Cycling Federation (FFC) as to why its riders had not been fully paid their prize money from the 2007 Tour de France.
In accordance with UCI regulation C, Article 1.2.072, the riders had expected to be paid within 90 days of the end of the race or by October 27, 2007. (UCI Regulation C, Article 1.2.072). However, the CPA said in a press release Wednesday that so far only prizes related to the general classification had been paid thus far, and only to foreign racers.
"The CPA sent one more mail to Mr. Jean Pitallier [president of the French Cycling Federation - ed.], after the one it already sent last February 24, asking him to explain..." said the press release. The CPA also called for the FFC to explain what it would do with the interest it has been earning on the money since October 27, 2007 and noted that it had already profitted from interest earned between June 2007, when race organiser ASO paid it the prize money, through October 26.
The CPA indicated it may take legal action in an effort to get the prize money paid if no reply is received within eight days. Previously, Cyclingnews reported that the delay was allegedly pending resolution of the sentences for riders like [Alexander] Vinokourov, [Cristian] Moreni, [Iban] Mayo, [Patrik] Sinkewitz and [Michael] Rasmussen – the first three who tested positive during the 2007 Tour de France and Rasmussen, who was forced to abandon by his team following questionable whereabouts in the race's lead-up.
The FFC is currently in financial distress, as it lost a lawsuit over 1 million euro in damages to be paid to Patrice Sulpice, who crashed while training in preparation for the Worlds in Colombia in 1995 and now sits in a wheelchair. |
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| stuartmcstuart |
Posted on 04-04-2008 23:25
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They had better get their act together or the ASO may have to go crawling back to the UCI. Not likely, I know, but you never know if the FFC went bankrupt... |
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| issoisso |
Posted on 08-04-2008 21:53
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Well well well, Ale-jet has been suspended by his own team for not showing effort at Hel van Het Mergelland and abandoning after an hour. This can't bode well for his season.
Many thanks to fagulha for pointing this out to me 
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| CrueTrue |
Posted on 08-04-2008 21:54
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Read that a few days ago, yes. Well done by the management
Also, Mazzoleni has now been given a 2 year suspension. |
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| issoisso |
Posted on 08-04-2008 21:55
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CrueTrue wrote:
Read that a few days ago, yes. Well done by the management
And you didn't post? shame on you
CrueTrue wrote:
Also, Mazzoleni has now been given a 2 year suspension.
Quite irrelevant considering he's retired.
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| CrueTrue |
Posted on 08-04-2008 21:57
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You never know. I have still not seen Vinokourov being banned, meaning that he suddenly "re-appear" at the Olympics. I wouldn't be surprised if that happened. Therefore, I'm pro giving suspensions to doped riders even though they have retired |
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 08-04-2008 22:11
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Wasnt he banned for 1 year?
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| kebowers |
Posted on 08-04-2008 23:03
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SportingNonsense wrote:
Wasnt he banned for 1 year?
Cycling News Flash, December 7, 2007
Vinokourov handed one-year ban for blood doping
By Gregor Brown
Kazakh Alexander Vinokourov is suspended until July 2008 by his country's federation.
Kazakh Alexander Vinokourov had been handed a one-year ban today, December 6, from the sport by his country's federation stemming from his positive test for a homologous blood transfusion during this year's Tour de France. The 34 year-old, winner of 2006 Vuelta a España and 2005 Liège-Bastogne-Liège, will potentially be able to return in time to race the 2008 Olympics as his ban will expire in July.
Similar case have resulted in two-year suspensions by riders' federations, and the 12-month ban for the rider who won the Albi time trial and Le Louron stage of this year's Tour seems light in comparison. The International Cycling Union (UCI) could appeal the decision to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), in addition, 'Vino' will be barred from racing with a ProTour team for four years.
"Documents and evidence presented by Vinokourov and his lawyers were not convincing," Kazakh federation vice-president Nikolai Proskurin said to AFP. "We decided to disqualify him for a year."
"I think that should he want to, Vinokourov will be able to take part in the Olympic Games in Beijing." Vinokourov finished second in the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.
Following Vinokourov's positive blood doping control, he was suspended by the Kazakh-sponsored, Switzerland-based Team Astana. The team subsequently withdrew from the French Grand Tour, and was hit with the blood doping news of Vinokourov's compatriot, Andrey Kashechkin in August. |
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| CrueTrue |
Posted on 09-04-2008 11:48
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Oh, right. I forgot that. It doesn't change the fact, though, that he can still take part in the Olympics. |
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| kebowers |
Posted on 09-04-2008 15:51
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I agree, what was the rationalization for a 1 YEAR BAN?? Did I miss something, should be 2 years, plus the 4 for ProTour (not that there will be a ProTour in 4 yrs).
Haven't heard anything about the UCI appealing to CAS. Of course as the Olympics get closer perhaps they will try to appeal at the last moment, sort of like the Worlds last year...sort of |
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