Oh wait a minute, what I meant to say was that - I'm a dope.
!996 winner of the TdF is???? With the top three - Riis, Ulrich, and Virenque - all admitted or highly suspected of doping who gets the credit for the win? Peter Luttenberger, who placed 5th. Because 4th place Laurent Dufaux (like Virenque) was part of the doping Festina team a few
years later ('98) and shouldn't be eligible either. Crap - nobody wins OK!
I thought, naively, most of the racers who where cycling's top winners raced that way because they were extraordinarily talented. But with the news out of T-Mobile this week of Riis, Aldag, Zabel et al. it seems as if the peloton is in danger of imploding once more.
With the likes of Jan Ullrich, Roberto Haras, Johan Museeuw, Oscar Sevilla, Santiago Botero, Jorg Jaksche, David Miller, Franki Andreau, Joseba Beloki, Tyler Hamilton, Ivan Basso and Francisco Mancebo; just to name a few. Top names all! And it turns out that most, if not all, are either admitted, convicted or highly suspected dopers (of one sort or another).
My suspicions are further peeked by Greg Lemond who continues his assault of doping allegations on fellow American TdF winners - previously against Lance ("If Armstrong's clean, it's the greatest comeback. And if he's not, then it's the greatest fraud"), and now against Floyd at his USADA hearing.
To paraphrase Shakespeare, he "...doth protest too much, methinks." Certainly brings into question how a guy who after being shot by his brother-in-law in '87, to comeback (with 37 shotgun pellets remaining in his body, including some in the lining of his heart) to win twice more in '89 & '90. How's that for the pot calling the kettle black?
Like I said - I'm the dope!
!996 winner of the TdF is???? With the top three - Riis, Ulrich, and Virenque - all admitted or highly suspected of doping who gets the credit for the win? Peter Luttenberger, who placed 5th. Because 4th place Laurent Dufaux (like Virenque) was part of the doping Festina team a few
I thought, naively, most of the racers who where cycling's top winners raced that way because they were extraordinarily talented. But with the news out of T-Mobile this week of Riis, Aldag, Zabel et al. it seems as if the peloton is in danger of imploding once more.
With the likes of Jan Ullrich, Roberto Haras, Johan Museeuw, Oscar Sevilla, Santiago Botero, Jorg Jaksche, David Miller, Franki Andreau, Joseba Beloki, Tyler Hamilton, Ivan Basso and Francisco Mancebo; just to name a few. Top names all! And it turns out that most, if not all, are either admitted, convicted or highly suspected dopers (of one sort or another).
My suspicions are further peeked by Greg Lemond who continues his assault of doping allegations on fellow American TdF winners - previously against Lance ("If Armstrong's clean, it's the greatest comeback. And if he's not, then it's the greatest fraud"), and now against Floyd at his USADA hearing.
To paraphrase Shakespeare, he "...doth protest too much, methinks." Certainly brings into question how a guy who after being shot by his brother-in-law in '87, to comeback (with 37 shotgun pellets remaining in his body, including some in the lining of his heart) to win twice more in '89 & '90. How's that for the pot calling the kettle black?
Like I said - I'm the dope!
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