Buh bye Rassmussen
Na na na na hey hey hey gooooodbye
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just got the new as well! jeebus cripes!!!
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HOLY SH!T
http://www.velonews.com/tour2007/details/articles/12944.0.html
and
http://www.cyclingnews.com/road/2007/tour07/news/?id=/news/2007/jul07/jul26news
Well, I guess Contador gets it...unless he gets booted too.
<edit> Three teams in one year, how many left during the Festina thing in '98? Just Festina?
http://www.velonews.com/tour2007/details/articles/12944.0.html
and
http://www.cyclingnews.com/road/2007/tour07/news/?id=/news/2007/jul07/jul26news
Well, I guess Contador gets it...unless he gets booted too.
<edit> Three teams in one year, how many left during the Festina thing in '98? Just Festina?
Ahhh crappity crap crap.
well said.
I think part of thier punishment should be for them to line up and repeatedly get c**k punched by Merckx and Fignon, then be forced to listen to Bob Roll say Tour Day France for 3 freaking weeks.
I have to believe the team had advance notice of a positive test or something else beyond what they are saying. This smacks of a last ditch attempt to save face before the dropping of a huge bombshell. In any case, it sucks.
I dunno, maybe.
But if I was team director with all that's been going on and I found out that my rider outright lied about why he missed doping tests, I'd boot him too, even if I had no other info.
Imagine if they didn't and then it was later revealed they knew he lied?
The team isn't leaving, just chicken.
Makes me sad to be in the bicycle industry.
Luckily it's not too late to change our catalog...
Luckily it's not too late to change our catalog...
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They should let me into the Tour, the only thing I'm on is Guiness and coffee. Of course the Guiness would elevate my testosterone and then I would fail a doping control and have to wait for the B sample, upon testing it would be positive and I would be shamed the rest of my life while I proclaimed my innocents and blame the positive test on (take your pic) alcohol/beef/big balls/extreme effort
Wish I could say the same thing....
I can only imagine. Lamzorz huh? If he's a large, you can send me his spares! I'll get a Rabobank signature bike, so I'll match all nice and good.Wish I could say the same thing....
Luckily ours is a lot smaller than yours!
Hey, remind me on the shoe size, 44 right? I totally lost like 1/2 my emails the other day. Drop me an email.
I am really excited that our old Discovery clothes are gonna start selling again.
This race is just a complete cluster**** this year.
Rather than have a team, it would be more fitting for Ridemonkey to sponsor it.
would a brewing company sponsor a cycling team?Rather than have a team, it would be more fitting for Ridemonkey to sponsor it.
Levi has a shot now !!
Sierra Nevada does now.
Guiness does also i do believe. There was also the Killian's and Coors teams back in the day.
Our stupid local paper won't cover the friggin race in a meaningful way, but this gets on the front page.
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Of course....positive news doesn't sell papers, Americans want stories about people's lives falling apartOur stupid local paper won't cover the friggin race in a meaningful way, but this gets on the front page.
Way to Go rabbobank
At least they had the balls to enforce the rules and Can his ass.
Go Discovery!
At least they had the balls to enforce the rules and Can his ass.
Go Discovery!
Exactly.
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at what? second place?
didnt mercyhx admit to amphetamine use, yea Im pretty sure I read that somewhere.
This years race will end as a race of one. David Millar.
Jesus man... way to spoil the most exciting tour I've seen.
*shakes head*
Why don't they just go on strike and really piss off the fans?
*shakes head*
Why don't they just go on strike and really piss off the fans?
Yeah he tottaly got caught in a lie. Not enough for the UCI or TDF to boot him but more than enough reason for his team to cut him. I think they did the right thing. You know it is bad when the peloton starts protesting. If you watch the video the whole peloton sat there at the start. A few riders went off early, Rass was one of the first. He probably felt a 100 or so eyes burning a hole through him.
I'm sure that's part of it. ASO said "look, if this guy wins, and he's found to be doping in a week or a month, then we're f'd in the a. So either he's totally clean, or find a way to get rid of him."
And now he's gone. Hmm...
He didn't help his cause by acting like a dick.
It would have been a lot cooler if Contador just punched him in the face and then Cadel Evans pushed him off the side of the mountain.
So it is down to how much time Cadel can put into Contador in a TT. If they don't get busted too.
Intere sting quote from the article.
guess they won't feel they won it properlyvelonews said:
Amen, didn't make many friends, that's for sure. Especially amongst his teammates...
Exactly, that's not the way you want to get a TdF win. And it doesn't help the cause of "clean cycling" to have the yellow jersey ejected from the tour a couple of days before Paris.
Though it would have been worse had he won and then this happened...
I wonder if Conty will be wearing yellow tomorrow?
Interesting question. He's in thelead, so technically, he should, yeah? Would it be classy of him to wear the white anyway? Would Tour Officials allow him to wear anything but yellow?
Tomorrow's initial coverage will be interesting since they already played the, "hey, other sports have problems too" card.
Tomorrow's initial coverage will be interesting since they already played the, "hey, other sports have problems too" card.
When Lance got the yellow after a crash and didn't want to wear it, officials wouldn't start until he put it on, and that was a respectable situation. So I can't see them letting him not wear it out of "respect".