Marc Lotz

Kléber
Kléber Posts: 6,842
edited November 2007 in Pro race
"Marc Lotz is hoping to return to professional cycling after sitting out a two-year suspension for using EPO. The 34 year-old Belgian plans to sign with the Belgian Professional Continental Team DFL-Cyclingnews." says cyclingnews.com.

Now that cyclingnews.com is owned by bikeradar/ Future plc, are you happy that this site is supporting exposed cheats? Should they be signing an old doper or picking a younger hope? Or is it generous of them to rehabilitate Lotz?

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  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    He broke the rules. He was caught and he's served his punishment. It should be irrelevant who signs him as long as it's within the rules.
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/DFL ... 58053.html
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    My point is that even if he's served his ban, why employ someone with bad habits. I don't think he spent his ban apologising to riders he beat unfairly, or educating younger riders on clean riding. So surely the budget could be better spent on young talent, not an old mule?

    As for Museeuw bikes, well, I heard Jeff d'Hont and Willy Voet are looking for work as soigneurs and Manolo Saiz is still looking to get back behind the wheel of a team car.
  • dave_1
    dave_1 Posts: 9,512
    no sympathy for him...he went on the record as saying he should have kept quiet as the police had not found the EPO..my memory of it is he made an admission before they had done a search of his house...he led them to it.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKBacb2V ... ata_player
  • vermooten
    vermooten Posts: 2,697
    Kléber wrote:
    Now that cyclingnews.com is owned by bikeradar/ Future plc,....
    awwww nooooooooooooooooooooo.... please tell me that you're making this up.... please
    You just have to ride like you never have to breathe again.

    Manchester Wheelers
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    vermooten wrote:
    Kléber wrote:
    Now that cyclingnews.com is owned by bikeradar/ Future plc,....
    awwww nooooooooooooooooooooo.... please tell me that you're making this up.... please

    Nope, has been owned by Future for a few months now.
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • calvjones
    calvjones Posts: 3,850
    iainf72 wrote:
    vermooten wrote:
    Kléber wrote:
    Now that cyclingnews.com is owned by bikeradar/ Future plc,....
    awwww nooooooooooooooooooooo.... please tell me that you're making this up.... please

    Nope, has been owned by Future for a few months now.

    ...and to be fair, so far has seen no editorial or style 'improvements'...
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  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    vermooten wrote:
    Kléber wrote:
    Now that cyclingnews.com is owned by bikeradar/ Future plc,....
    awwww nooooooooooooooooooooo.... please tell me that you're making this up.... please

    Old news! Thankfully, I can't say I've noticed any discernible difference.

    On topic, I think I agree with Dave and Kleber. Lotz and Museeuw are known drug cheats who've shown no remorse and are still decidedly old-school. They shouldn't be encouraged to take a position in a team full of young riders.
  • vermooten
    vermooten Posts: 2,697
    afx237vi wrote:
    Old news! Thankfully, I can't say I've noticed any discernible difference.

    Yet.
    You just have to ride like you never have to breathe again.

    Manchester Wheelers
  • timoid.
    timoid. Posts: 3,133
    I don't object to it from a morality stance, but if I was running the team, I'd be very wary of the negative publicity surrounding the signing and be a bit reluctant to take him on board.

    Its more I don't get the thinking behind it then I condemn it.
    It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired.

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