wow, another nail into the coffin of professional cycling.
He doesn't have anything different than has already been made public. Do a little research on this guy, he is a bit of a nut job. However, don't doubt they were all dirty, same goes for the top in track and field.
Well, former Disco guys have tested positive all over the place. It's just a matter of time before a CURRENT member tests positive.
This is nothing new. Go test every NFL player for steroids right now and see what you get. Cycling gets a bad rap because they actually test. They have a testing procedure that's far better than ANY other sport out there. It's still one of the most beautiful sports to watch and I'll still watch it no matter what.
The peleton snaking around the flats of French wine country...
A group of riders playing follow the leader, hopping back in forth, increasing the tempo bit by bit...
Alan
I'm starting to fear that all current riders have skeletons in their closets and in order to save the sport, the young and non-professionals must take over and ride the Tour. Even if Cadel Evans would have won, I am sure they would have dug up some dirt on him, somehow.
this writer brings up a good point about american sports and the bashing of the tour.
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=hill/070731&lpos=spotlight&lid=tab3pos1
The big question is: Is there anyone competing in the TDF that is doing it legit?
Maybe the middle of the peleton. Same for any other sport.
Alan
Well, don't expect a confession. And if he surprises the world and does confess, expect another lame excuse like this:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/other_sports/cycling/6924766.stm
Please people. Either Sinkewitz has an incredibly low IQ or he thinks everyone else does... or maybe it's both. He says he put a testosterone gel on his arm "without thinking"! Duh. Personally, I think he was probably doping much more than this, but it's easier for him to give a partial confession with a lame excuse. It makes it look like it was an innocent mistake. Please people we are not that dumb. You're a cyclist in the Tour de France.
Because testosterone gel is just sitting around in legit training rooms all over, right Sinkewitz?
just my 2 pennies wrote:
this writer brings up a good point about american sports and the bashing of the tour.
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=hill/070731&lpos=spotlight&lid=tab3pos1
This is an excellent article and should be read before anyone wants to proclaim cycling dead. It is not and the sad fact is right now it is still more popular than track and field. 3 million spainards watch contador win the tour on TV. The tour had its highest TV ratings in France since 2001 (have not seen Versus numbers, anyone?) yet less than 1,000 saw Webb run 3:46 two weeks ago. If this site did not exist, no one would know about it. So, which sport is really in trouble?
Regarding doping in cycling, which is worse, cycling's witch hunt to get rid of drugs or MLB/NFL pretending it does not exist? Those that think cycling is dead are realyl saying that cycling should just PRETEND to catch dopers and then catch no one. Then they can say they are clean like the NFL. They are saying that catching dopers = dead sport.
Regarding doping in cycling .... are you aware that cycling had a huge doping problem in the 1960s? In 1966 the riders struck during the tour and demanded that the authorities back off. In 1967 Tommy Simpson literally dropped dead from an OD on a mountain climb. Doping in cycling did not stand last year, its been a problem for decades. Cycling survived the 1960s doping scandals.
In 1998 the Festina team was kick out of the tour. The team was found to be systemic dopers. In the 1999 Tour of Italy (Giro) the Itialian police raid the hotels of the riders in the middle of the race. Two riders literally jumped out the window of their hotel to escape them and one fractured his leg and had to withdraw from the race. 200 people were qustioned and the riders struck the stage the next day (did not race, rode it slowly). Cycling survived.
Cycling will survive this latest scandal perceisely becuase it is so agressive in weeding out the cheats. Not because they are prestending it does not exist.
Finally, regading this expert that has "the goods" (to paraphase Jose Conseco) on Contador, consider this
http://trustbut.blogspot.com/2007/07/stirring-um-pot.htmlLe Monde this morning picks up (rather gingerly) a story which appeared yesterday on the Belgian news site "7 sur 7" , reporting that a German doping expert, Werner Franke, called Alberto Contador's Tour victory, "The biggest fraud in the history of sport." Claiming to have documents from the police search of Dr. Fuentes' offices, Franke asserted they showed Contador taking a "whole doping protocol" of banned substances.
Both "7 sur 7" and Le Monde hastened to point out that Franke has a history of making extravagant declarations, and that in September 2006 a German court enjoined him from making similar statements against Jan Ullrich.
Lax Retard wrote:
Because testosterone gel is just sitting around in legit training rooms all over, right Sinkewitz?
Their is an argument being made that most of the recent dopers are over 28 (Vino, Mayo, Moreni, Sinkawitz in this year's tour), not to mention Basso, Ulrich, Hamilton, Heras, Millar, Kessler, etc. They represent the "old generation" of cycling. Fewer (but not all) of the under 26/27 year old riders are getting busted (Nozal is a notable exception)
Rider Bradley Wiggins (an anti-doping critic, A "Paula Radcliffe" of cycling) thinks most the problem with doping in cycling will get better once this generation retires. This is also the generation that had many unexplained deaths in the 1990s (Pantini).
Thoughts?
Lax Retard wrote:
Because testosterone gel is just sitting around in legit training rooms all over, right Sinkewitz?
Well, it's a hell of a lot more plausible than Floyd Landis' whiskey binge story...
Dr. Franke is a little more than the nut job you make him out to be. He unraveled the systematic doping in the old East Germany, including its connections to Western athletes. Also, the gag order he received regarding Jan Ulrich was related to financial information. He disclosed how much money Ulrich had paid various doctors and that was apparently considered an invasion of privacy or something like that.
Extravagant claims or not, nobody has ever caught Dr. Franke at making blatantly false statements, so when he says Contador took specific drugs I'm inclined to believe there's some fire under that smoke.
This is also the generation that had many unexplained deaths in the 1990s (Pantini).
Uhhhh, Marco's death was hardly "unexplained". Cocaine overdoses are not that uncommon...
ex-rgs wrote:
This is also the generation that had many unexplained deaths in the 1990s (Pantini).
Uhhhh, Marco's death was hardly "unexplained". Cocaine overdoses are not that uncommon...
Pantini was a doper and in the 1990s their was a number of cyclist in the lower ranks dying mysteriously of heart related diseases. That hurt cycling about as much as the 60 odd deaths of professional wrestlers over the last 20 years.
"Expert Says Tour of France Winner Doped"
I haven't watched the news in a while. You mean Lance Armstrong came out of exile and won the tour again ?