It does say a stimulant so he wasn't caught for "juicing" per se. Hell, OTC ephedrine is banned by the IOC and half of everybody uses that as a gitter-upper.
There was a lot of speculation regarding his renaissance in '00 when he when from a few years of declining results to all of a sudden dominating the ABA circuit after a long vacation abroad.
Has bootsey ever sauced? perhaps...but, I dont think this instance is sauce related...here is my take on this;
Mount Saint Anne, 2004, on tuesday night there was a big rave party in the parking lot of the race venue, part of "verilium" a week long party with beer, bitches, bikes, etc...
I headed over there about midnight to check it out, stayed for 30 minutes then left-what I saw were DJ's and lots of f-ed up people, on pills, meth, whatever you crazy kids do these days at a rave. I did see Bootes and a female racer friend of his partying-just having a good time...but having "fun".
Next day I saw Bootsey and he looked hungover in a beyond alcohol sort of way. ANyways, come race day his female "friend" racer that was with him decided not to race cause she was "sick" which I thought was BS because I saw her in the parking lot doing starts, but whatever.
Then in the semi of the 4x, Bootes sat up and let everyone go by, so he would not make the finals...weird...perhaps he sat up not to make the final so he wouldnt get tested, BUT-he was an alternate.
The positive test was taken in mont saint anne.
I think/guess/assume he tested for "party drugs". Does it make it better or less severe "IF" it was "just" party drugs? hell no! Get any the F out of here that doesnt play by the rules...there may be only a handful of kids that are fans of MTBing, but they still look up to these guys, so whatever the case...suspend em all.
Thats my take...
If you wanna talk about aussies and sauce, ask Todd from IronHorse, he seems to be the roid expert.
oh, and as always Stik, thanks for the info. You don't know me yet, but as I may be riding a GT DHi next year (if GT does decide to co-sponsor/sponsor our team) then I'm sure you'll see my face at the nats racing semi.
If they ever test me for caffeine, maybe Velonews would do an article on me.
It would go like this, "Blah blah blah..........potentially fatal levels of bean juice causing mental laspes and talk of cornholio."
This is such a tragedy though.
I bet all 3 spectators at the Jeep King of the Mountain Race are sorely dissapointed at Bootes. :devil:
That didn't explain squat.
Ha, for all we know that could have been crack.
"I, unknowingly loaded up my pipe, and smoked up a rock,
then of course, I found out it was illegal. Silly me."
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