Doping

Irish won it before the lot of you.

French did.

lest we forget the French...

forget the French.

ftfy

I suppose this was coming but holy shit, I can't keep up.

Old-guard Garmin-Cervelo riders banned.

Why only 6 months? And will ASO stop Garmin from competing in Le Tour if they field dodgy riders?

6 months due to cooperation with USADA?

Why only 6 months?

18-month discount off the usual 2-year suspension because they admitted doping without any adverse analytical finding and turned State's Evidence against other parties.

Shit packets.

Shit packets.

Is that an admission to doping without any adverse analytical finding?

Is that an admission to doping without any adverse analytical finding?

No, shit packets are very similar to arse burgers

Best tweet:

Michael Hutchinson ‏@Doctor_Hutch
Well done to Lance fan who just me sent an email saying 'he's not as bad as Jimmy Savile'. New high watermark in damning with faint praise.

Im burning my lance book

Don't do that, they are fetching up to 60c (that's nearly forty English pence) in the second hand market

Donate it to one of these places:

Best tweet:

Michael Hutchinson ‏@Doctor_Hutch
Well done to Lance fan who just me sent an email saying 'he's not as bad as Jimmy Savile'. New high watermark in damning with faint praise.

I tried to have a reasoned debate with a guy on USA today site under Armstrong piece. He basically just kept blind repeating Armstrong line of American Hero, 7 times TdF winner etc etc etc.

Then said I must hate cancer sufferers!!! Prick.

Lance's face everywhere is genuinely making me feel nauseous.

I honestly just want to smash their smug faces in. How anyone can take pleasure in success achieved the way they did is beyond me.

Yours,

Angry_in_Cheltenham

That is a fucked up photo. Johan looks like he's in a Tim Burton film

That's a brilliant photo.

Sky omerta contracts.

This seems like exactly the wrong thing to do in the long run. It effectively concretes the lies under the patio to be discovered another day.

A missed opportunity. By assuring those at Sky their jobs are safe whatever doping was in their past would allow those people to speak the truth. It would be tricky in the short term. Now would be the time to do it (out of season and whilst the team is in such a strong position).

Sky ometra contracts.

This seems like exactly the wrong thing to do in the long run. It effectively concretes the lies under the patio to be discovered another day.

By assuring those at Sky their jobs are safe whatever doping was in their past would allow those people to speak the truth. It would be tricky in the short term. Now would be the time to do it (out of season and whilst the team is in such a strong position).

I was under the impression that this was Sky's policy all along....

More hot air and no actual substance to their 'zero tolerance' team.

My sympathy for Brailsford on this matter went when he hired Sean Yates and came very close to hiring Neil Stephens (the only man implicated in both the Festina and Puerto scandals) as that was effectively him saying "this zero tolerance approach isn't worth shit".

Now it's come to bite him on the arse and his reaction is pathetic. The UCI tried this with a policy where anyone convicted of doping had to cough up a year's salary. As I understand it they accrued the grand total of SFr0 as it was completely unenforceable.

What stopping them from doing the same approach as Slipstream?

A loss of face.