A new Puerto? Rasmussen, Menchov and Boogerd in the frame

Kléber
Kléber Posts: 6,842
edited January 2008 in Pro race
Allegations on http://sport.ard.de/sp/radsport/news200 ... mussen.jsp claim that Rasmussen and his team mates, along with several cross-country skiiers, made use of an Austrian blood clinic.

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  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    Oh dear.

    Good for Rabobank. Not

    http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jm8 ... oDT_iv58xQ
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    Totschnig is mentioned in the article too.

    Oooof.
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • ricadus
    ricadus Posts: 2,379
    It's the biathlon world championships in 2 weeks time and Germany is expected to do well there and the current German sportswoman of the year is a 21 year old biathlete prodigy.

    I notice that ARD has rewritten that article in the last hour to make it (the TV channel) appear a bit less pro-active in regard to its investigative activities. That's an interesting use of new media ephemerality – make a statement, then amend it with a subtly different emphasis. (well, I do that all the time, but that's more to do with poor spelling 8) )

    I just wonder if they are trying to repeat the furore that occurred ahead of the World Cycling championships in Germany last year.
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  • vermooten
    vermooten Posts: 2,697
    Seems everyone's at it, not just sportsmen and women. Hip-hop artists are bulking up too: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/15/arts/ ... 5hiph.html

    Who's next? Priests? Architects? Bin-men?

    I expect that the 'war' against performance-enhancing drugs is in a similar state as was the 'war' against recreational drugs was in the mid-80s. Or something. Basically, everyone's at it.
    You just have to ride like you never have to breathe again.

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  • Langenberg
    Langenberg Posts: 453
    Biathlon and cross country skiing are big TV sports in Germany, so this is huge news.
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    Pas de progrŠs sans peigne.
  • timoid.
    timoid. Posts: 3,133
    Any more news on this?

    HGH would explain the Boogie smile
    It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired.
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    Timoid. wrote:
    Any more news on this?

    HGH would explain the Boogie smile

    The German media have suddenly stopped saying cyclists were involved. It may just turn out to be nonsense.
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • ricadus
    ricadus Posts: 2,379
    They admitted that only retire biathletes were implicated, so none of the current crop of stars.

    The Austrian investigators apparently stopped investigating once they found out the Russian mafia was involved somehow.
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