[Silver]

Phonak isn't on the short list for the Pro Tour next year.

Doesn't include the big three tours, but still some pretty significant races...

http://www.velonews.com/news/fea/7201.0.html

 

[Heidi]

Yah, doesn't look good for them, huh?

 

[wooglin]

Yah, doesn't look good for them, huh?

Phonak or the Pro Tour?

 

[Hawkeye]

Tyler Fired, Phonak has no license

http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/news/story?id=1934983

 

[goneskiian]

Tyler Fired, Phonak has no license

http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/news/story?id=1934983

OUCH!

Bummer. Looks like Tyler's going to get to spend all his own money trying to clear his name. I, for one, hope he does. Clear his name that is, not spend all his money.

More here:

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news/2004/nov04/nov30news1

-Ian

 

[punkassean]

whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty?

Poor Tyler.

 

[GizmoInc]

There is probably a statement in his contract that states he can get fired if he is suspected of drug use.

 

[Silver]

whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty?

Poor Tyler.

What do you think the drug test was? To paraphrase Bobby Julich, everyone else at the Olympics passed. Having a teammate fail the same test doesn't look good either.

If I had a dollar for every time an athlete got nailed and then said, "I didn't do it!" I'd be a rich, rich man.

 

[punkassean]

There is probably a statement in his contract that states he can get fired if he is suspected of drug use.

Obviously they "can" fire him for it, they did. My question was more insinuating that if the law thinks it appropriate to give due course then why don't these teams take the high road and wait until it's proven beyond a shadow of a doubt? Look at Cofidis and Lance, they were so eager to cut free of him and look at what a mistake that was. Granted only 1 in a million times that would have played out that way, but still.

I guess we'll have to wait and see how it plays out to know...

 

[punkassean]

What do you think the drug test was? To paraphrase Bobby Julich, everyone else at the Olympics passed. Having a teammate fail the same test doesn't look good either.

If I had a dollar for every time an athlete got nailed and then said, "I didn't do it!" I'd be a rich, rich man.

I highlighted PROVEn because there is a lot of doubt as to the true accuracy of the test. They won't even let him verify that it is actually his blood that tested positive. At this point it is a strong accusation, not a fact.

 

[Silver]

Well, it's not a criminal matter, so it's covered by contract law. There is no "innocent until proven guilty."

Like I said, he failed and his teammate failed. Everyone else passed? Why?

 

[jaydee]

Tyler says he approached the Phonak management and suggested that they "fire" him, so they would have a chance to get into the Pro Tour. But the blockheads in UCI have decided that they were insulted when Phonak questioned the reliability of testing methods used on Tyler and refuse so far to reinstate Phonak. I don't know why the top positions in the UCI and Olympic Committees and all amateur sports bodies are inhabited by shortsighted petty bureacrats. Maybe nobody else wants the jobs.

 

[punkassean]

Good tidbits jaydee...

makes sense if it's true.