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Di Luca getting popped is depressing, but you felt it was coming. People are talking about big power number from Nibali in yesterday's TT, but then they were also saying similar things for the second half of Wiggins' TT. The new clean era may still be some way away.
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I bet Luca Scinto is delighted.
“It’s true. He’s mad, he’s a cretino, he needs treatment.
“There’s nothing else to say. We gave him a second chance and the sponsors put their faith in him and this is how he pays us back. It’s crazy that a rider thinks they can get away with it like that.”cretino is my favourite word for today
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"It's true," Scinto said in a quiet, sad voice. "He's mad, he's a cretino, he needs treatment. There's nothing else to say. We gave him a second chance and the sponsors put their faith in him and this is how he pays us back. It's crazy that a rider thinks they can get away with it like that."
What he said ^
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Di Luca getting popped is depressing, but you felt it was coming. People are talking about big power number from Nibali in yesterday's TT, but then they were also saying similar things for the second half of Wiggins' TT. The new clean era may still be some way away.
They may be big numbers, but according to a tweet from Michael Hutchinson, even Niballi didn't make it inside the organisers' slowest predicted stage time.
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I'm surprised I feel so angry about Di Luca. I'm inclined to think a doping positive should bring a permanent ban. It would be worth it to clear out the scum. Frankly, I don't see any great benefit from the likes of Millar and the Garmin gang hanging round as well. Get rid of this generation who only know cheating and get rid of the administrators as well.
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I'm surprised I feel so angry about Di Luca. I'm inclined to think a doping positive should bring a permanent ban. It would be worth it to clear out the scum. Frankly, I don't see any great benefit from the likes of Millar and the Garmin gang hanging round as well. Get rid of this generation who only know cheating and get rid of the administrators as well.
It isn't just the riders though is it? Look at the team management of most of the teams and there are ex-riders who either tested positive or rode for teams with organised doping programmes. They are as much to blame as the riders, if not more so, for the continued acceptance of doping as the norm.
The sport needs leadership more than anything else, which is why McQuaid should not be re-elected as UCI President. The trouble is, what credible candidates are there to replace him?
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They may be big numbers, but according to a tweet from Michael Hutchinson, even Niballi didn't make it inside the organisers' slowest predicted stage time.
All very amateur analysis, but supposedly comparable with lance's up the same climb.....
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It isn't just the riders though is it? Look at the team management of most of the teams and there are ex-riders who either tested positive or rode for teams with organised doping programmes. They are as much to blame as the riders, if not more so, for the continued acceptance of doping as the norm.
The sport needs leadership more than anything else, which is why McQuaid should not be re-elected as UCI President. The trouble is, what credible candidates are there to replace him?
Credible governance is the number one need, then perhaps a truth and reconciliation process to wash the dirty laundry in public and finally put it to bed.
But you're right: how is there hope for a clean sport when so many ex-dirty riders are now in administrative roles? They are ones looking to guide the neo-pros when their moral compass is way off. Also after the oputrage about Leinders, pretty much every team has got a dodgy doctor stashed away some where. The sprot needs a cleaner break with its past.
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I bet Luca Scinto is delighted.
Luca Scinto, and the team sponsors, did not give him a 'second' chance; it's his third or fourth. They only have themselves to blame. DiLuca has never been honest about his doping, let alone repentant. Like Valverde and Vinokourov he personifies corruption.
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di Luca has been busted before, no?
Repeatedly.
He claims this man is his 'family doctor';
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"Ali the Priceline Chemist":)
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If we all ignored them they'd soon go away and start growing prize vegetables or something.
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Di Luca ffs.
what a fanny. Aside from the weather rendering affairs ridiculous at points, all you need is a few positives added to the mix to feel that it's just a circus act.
And here was me reading some reassuring analysis on Cyclismas last night that said that performances were so much slower they were more credible (I think the phrase was "aside from a few glimmers of decent riding this Giro’s gone from slow to Cat 6 fatty in full Disco Kit")
Maybe Di Luca was the 'glimmer of decent riding'. Rofl. Cretino indeed.
Ah well-praying for the weather to clear regardless! Irony being that if Wiggo had tanked everyone in the TT's and defended a lead, so many hills have been chopped out or cancelled he'd be creaming himself in a hot-tub right now and having a right chuckle along with a Benson and Hedges...