well said.
I dunno, maybe.I have to believe the team had advance notice of a positive test or something else beyond what they are saying. This smacks of a last ditch attempt to save face before the dropping of a huge bombshell. In any case, it sucks.
The team isn't leaving, just chicken.HOLY SH!T
http://www.velonews.com/tour2007/details/articles/12944.0.html
and
http://www.cyclingnews.com/road/2007/tour07/news/?id=/news/2007/jul07/jul26news
Well, I guess Contador gets it...unless he gets booted too.
<edit> Three teams in one year, how many left during the Festina thing in '98? Just Festina?
Wish I could say the same thing....Makes me sad to be in the bicycle industry.
Luckily it's not too late to change our catalog...
I can only imagine. Lamzorz huh? If he's a large, you can send me his spares! I'll get a Rabobank signature bike, so I'll match all nice and good.Wish I could say the same thing....
Rather than have a team, it would be more fitting for Ridemonkey to sponsor it.This race is just a complete cluster**** this year.
would a brewing company sponsor a cycling team?Rather than have a team, it would be more fitting for Ridemonkey to sponsor it.
Sierra Nevada does now.would a brewing company sponsor a cycling team?
Guiness does also i do believe. There was also the Killian's and Coors teams back in the day.Sierra Nevada does now.
Of course....positive news doesn't sell papers, Americans want stories about people's lives falling apartOur stupid local paper won't cover the friggin race in a meaningful way, but this gets on the front page.
Exactly.Way to Go rabbobank
At least they had the balls to enforce the rules and Can his ass.
didnt mercyhx admit to amphetamine use, yea Im pretty sure I read that somewhere.I think part of thier punishment should be for them to line up and repeatedly get c**k punched by Merckx and Fignon, then be forced to listen to Bob Roll say Tour Day France for 3 freaking weeks.
Yeah he tottaly got caught in a lie. Not enough for the UCI or TDF to boot him but more than enough reason for his team to cut him. I think they did the right thing. You know it is bad when the peloton starts protesting. If you watch the video the whole peloton sat there at the start. A few riders went off early, Rass was one of the first. He probably felt a 100 or so eyes burning a hole through him.I dunno, maybe.
But if I was team director with all that's been going on and I found out that my rider outright lied about why he missed doping tests, I'd boot him too, even if I had no other info.
Imagine if they didn't and then it was later revealed they knew he lied?
I'm sure that's part of it. ASO said "look, if this guy wins, and he's found to be doping in a week or a month, then we're f'd in the a. So either he's totally clean, or find a way to get rid of him."Yeah he tottaly got caught in a lie. Not enough for the UCI or TDF to boot him but more than enough reason for his team to cut him. I think they did the right thing. You know it is bad when the peloton starts protesting. If you watch the video the whole peloton sat there at the start. A few riders went off early, Rass was one of the first. He probably felt a 100 or so eyes burning a hole through him.
He didn't help his cause by acting like a dick.I'm sure that's part of it. ASO said "look, if this guy wins, and he's found to be doping in a week or a month, then we're f'd in the a. So either he's totally clean, or find a way to get rid of him."
And now he's gone. Hmm...
guess they won't feel they won it properlyvelonews said:The news, however, was not welcomed by Contador and Leipheimer's team.
Amen, didn't make many friends, that's for sure. Especially amongst his teammates...He didn't help his cause by acting like a dick.
It would have been a lot cooler if Contador just punched him in the face and then Cadel Evans pushed him off the side of the mountain.
Exactly, that's not the way you want to get a TdF win. And it doesn't help the cause of "clean cycling" to have the yellow jersey ejected from the tour a couple of days before Paris.Intere sting quote from the article.
guess they won't feel they won it properly
I wonder if Conty will be wearing yellow tomorrow?Intere sting quote from the article.
guess they won't feel they won it properly
When Lance got the yellow after a crash and didn't want to wear it, officials wouldn't start until he put it on, and that was a respectable situation. So I can't see them letting him not wear it out of "respect".Interesting question. He's in thelead, so technically, he should, yeah? Would it be classy of him to wear the white anyway? Would Tour Officials allow him to wear anything but yellow?
Tomorrow's initial coverage will be interesting since they already played the, "hey, other sports have problems too" card.