Doping

I'd be up for giving it a read!

Someone has found "Motoman" (the USPS blood courier in Tyler's book) FB page and is tweeting lots of recent pics of him and friends.

So he's still working for Bruyneel, now at RSNT?

He owns that shop that has slightly more ex team issue frames in the workshop than you might expect in an LBS in Nice. You know, like the team frames that were "sold" ;)

From the book's footnotes

This bloke appears to have a Livestrong poster up on the wall behind him:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2012/sep/18/vorsprung-durch-technik-video

Ho hum.

And he still can't pronounce "Vorsprung durch Technik".

Joe Papp has been outed as having collecting personal details of some of the vocal posters in "The Clinic" on the Cyclingnews forum by sending PMs and then solicting personal emails.

He then "sold them to Lance Armstrong's lawyer Tim Herman"

Kimmage receives UCI subpoena

Paul Kimmage has received a subpoena from the Swiss district court that will hear the defamation proceedings instigated against him by current UCI president Pat McQuaid, his predecessor Hein Verbruggen and the UCI itself.

I just found an old copy of this. It is Issue 2. Will scan it in and post it up if anyone is interested.

Just remembered I said I would do this - will bring it to work tomorrow to scan..

Rouleur Doping timelines.

These are from Issue 2 published in 2006...
They were presented in the magazine as the right hand side of 2 double-page spreads - each left hand page showed a similar timeline of Equipment developments.

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Verbruggen makes Phil Liggett sound sane and reasonable

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/verbruggen-wont-take-legal-action-against-hamilton

Verbruggen makes Phil Liggett sound sane and reasonable

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/verbruggen-wont-take-legal-action-against-hamilton

He's lost it.

Let's do this. Pat please resign, [ame="http://forum.cyclingnews.com/showthread.php?t=18601"]letter[/ame] and petition.

Let's do this. Pat please resign, letter and petition.

Signed.

Meanwhile, the gnomes of Aigle continue to apply their knee jerk reaction to a doping scandal, brush it under the carpet;

http://www.uci.ch/Modules/BUILTIN/getObject.asp?MenuId=MTYzMDQ&ObjTypeCode=FILE&type=FILE&id=ODExOTA&LangId=1

the gnomes of Aigle continue to apply their knee jerk reaction to a doping scandal,

Quality draughtsmanship, as you'd expect from the UCI.

The gist:

MOTION
Adopted by the Congress of the UCI, in its meeting of 21 September 2012 in Maastricht, the
Netherlands,

[B]There is no point in continuing to reexamine the past[/B]

Worth giving the Paul Kimmage defence fund a plug

http://www.cyclismas.com/2012/09/paul-kimmage-defense-fund/

Finally a member of the peloton breaks the omerta and has a pop at McQuaid:

http://velonews.competitor.com/2012/09/news/millar-uci-should-own-up-to-cyclings-doping-past_239502

needs an 'I got busted for doping before it was cool' caption

Hamilton in the Graun:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/sep/24/tyler-hamilton-tour-de-france

http://downthebackstretch.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/its-all-about-blood.html

http://downthebackstretch.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/the-scientists-debate-rebuttal-to.html

Hamilton in the Graun:

I'm more concerned about his hair! wtf is that?

http://soundcloud.com/djcoyle

Rumour has it that George Hincapie will be the next US cyclist to admit to transgressions in his career.

I'll wager large amounts of money that if he does confess, he'll remind people of what a nice guy he is, how he has no enemies, always done his job, blah, blah, blah.

But all those things might still be true Andy. I reserve my real admiration for people who never went down that route - so Moncoutie rather than Millar, for example - but that aside they are not, surely, all the same? Armstrong's behaviour, more than his doping, is what makes him stand out as a louse. Certainly Hincapie was in his inner circle and benefited from the Armstrong effect, and he never got sick of it and moved teams, as others did, but that doesn't mean he isn't a nice guy or a hard worker. He seems to be respected by his peers. And he seems, though who knows, to have stopped doping in recent years. They are not all the same; he's no Valverde, is he?

I don't doubt they are true. But he cheated and got away with it, so any mealy mouthed confession is a little hollow in my view, especially given how he's benefitted so much financially from being Lance's loyal team mate.

At a certain point, there has to be an amnesty in return for full confession, IMO, no matter how unpleasant the prospect is.