contains "direct documentary evidence including financial payments, emails, scientific data and laboratory test results that further prove the use, possession and distribution of performance enhancing drugs by Lance Armstrong and confirm the disappointing truth about the deceptive activities of the USPS Team, a team that received tens of millions of American taxpayer dollars in funding". the team's doping conspiracy "was professionally designed to groom and pressure athletes to use dangerous drugs, to evade detection, to ensure its secrecy and ultimately gain an unfair competitive advantage through superior doping practices". http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cycling/19903716
― zappi, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 16:59 (eleven years ago) link
I guess I can see Lance's point now. You've got David Walsh sitting on your couch, drinking beer, when suddenly he's all like: "hey Lance, remember that time in high school when you were at the center of the most sophisticaed, professionalised and successful doping programme that sport has ever seen?" So annoying.
― hot slag (lukas), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 17:09 (eleven years ago) link
202 page Reasoned Decision case file :
http://www.scribd.com/doc/109619079/Reasoned-Decision
― lil queequeg (peter grasswich), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 18:08 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/danielson-vande-velde-and-zabriskie-accept-usada-bans
― we fed him, now he's an 8 million pound troll all over our board (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 20:41 (eleven years ago) link
This is a pretty sobering take on all the back-patting going on:
http://stevetilford.com/?p=22105
― lil queequeg (peter grasswich), Thursday, 11 October 2012 17:24 (eleven years ago) link
Rabobank are no more :("We are no longer convinced that the international professional world of cycling can make this a clean and fair sport"
― ざっぴ (zappi), Friday, 19 October 2012 09:11 (eleven years ago) link
Very Sad news
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Friday, 19 October 2012 15:28 (eleven years ago) link
team will go on next year highroad-style, at least
― single pun theory (haitch), Saturday, 20 October 2012 10:18 (eleven years ago) link
finally dl'ed the hamilton book. lols all around. armstrong even slightly more assholey than expected, doping about where i expected, maybe slightly more egregious. disliked the "up close and personal" style intro a bit (over the corny limit), but it's a fun superfast read from there.
― last mansplain to ja rule (Hunt3r), Monday, 22 October 2012 16:30 (eleven years ago) link
http://inrng.com/2012/10/lemond-letter-uci/
― Mountain Excitement (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Thursday, 25 October 2012 13:19 (eleven years ago) link
Bobby julich confessed today and was given the boot by sky (rider 4 for those keeping score)
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Thursday, 25 October 2012 16:13 (eleven years ago) link
Can't believe that Sky hasn't sacked Mick Rogers yet...
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 25 October 2012 16:15 (eleven years ago) link
cue everyone acting slightly embarrassed, pretending that it didn't happen, "wish he were more statesmanlike", etc
― hot slag (lukas), Thursday, 25 October 2012 16:48 (eleven years ago) link
i didn't hear that but i was thinking last week that damn he's like the last of that generation of usa europros left w/out an admission.
sky's and quicksack's policies are bad imo. otoh at least quicksack freed up some scratch for cavendish with that move.
― last week's meme (Hunt3r), Thursday, 25 October 2012 21:20 (eleven years ago) link
Sean Yates has gone. Not sure what this will mean for Sky: their zero tolerance approach, while commendable, will leave them with a huge problem when it comes to recruiting DSs given that probably >90% of riders of that age group doped. Garmin's approach seems more realistic.
― Mountain Excitement (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Saturday, 27 October 2012 22:23 (eleven years ago) link
Sky haven't exactly been that hot in the on the road tactics department. A change might be beneficial in that respect. Got to go to the continental teams or to women's racing to find an untainted DS.
I feel a bit sorry for Yates, he is apparently retiring from the sport entirely.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Sunday, 28 October 2012 17:50 (eleven years ago) link
why feel sorry for him, sky says this is entirely a personal decision unrelated to anything? i guess he just wanted a change.
― last week's meme (Hunt3r), Sunday, 28 October 2012 18:21 (eleven years ago) link
He looked kind of glum when I beat him the other week in the Catford Hill Climb. Perhaps I contributed to his demise.
― Mountain Excitement (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Sunday, 28 October 2012 18:32 (eleven years ago) link
why you gotta break a man like that
― last week's meme (Hunt3r), Sunday, 28 October 2012 18:58 (eleven years ago) link
no gifts
― Mountain Excitement (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Sunday, 28 October 2012 19:30 (eleven years ago) link
Get 'em Kimmo, raaargh.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/nov/01/paul-kimmage-pat-mcquaid-criminal-complaint
― Also unknown as Zora (Surfing At Work), Friday, 2 November 2012 11:46 (eleven years ago) link
Strictly speaking this is 2013 but I just volunteered for the UCI Cross Worlds in Louisville.
Anyone else fancy coming down to join in the fun?
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Friday, 30 November 2012 01:44 (eleven years ago) link
i remember riding my road bike in team kit in 1993 in louisville for a week. it was like i just crashed my spaceship. i have never been mocked/harrassed/threatened for lycra like that in my life- not even in northern idaho in the late 80s. blows my mind they are hosting worlds. that said, fuck no.
― Hunt3r, Friday, 30 November 2012 02:29 (eleven years ago) link
yikes
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Friday, 30 November 2012 02:49 (eleven years ago) link
ha, that's progress! don't hate, celebrate. i'm sure you'll have a grand time, truly-- sorry to be a churl.
― Hunt3r, Friday, 30 November 2012 03:51 (eleven years ago) link
times done changed
― well if it isn't old 11 cameras simon (gbx), Friday, 30 November 2012 16:58 (eleven years ago) link
i know a bunch of ppl that will be going down for worlds, i will not likely be one of them
― well if it isn't old 11 cameras simon (gbx), Friday, 30 November 2012 16:59 (eleven years ago) link
michael rogers to saxo/tinkoff - wasn't too keen on sky's scorched earth policy perhaps?
― mike oldfield's 'carbon clincher bells' (haitch), Monday, 3 December 2012 01:13 (eleven years ago) link
It looks like the Tour de France is coming through Epping Forest in 2014 and possibly within a mile of my flat
― A Yawning Chasm (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Thursday, 17 January 2013 11:55 (eleven years ago) link