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  • jimmythecuckoo
    jimmythecuckoo Posts: 4,718
    I might set up www.dontletcontadorride.co.uk/facebovvered in response...

    Anyone interested?
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  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    You need "ContadoralMilanSanRemoYTirrenoAdriatic.com" as Astana have been banned from these events too. :D
  • drenkrom
    drenkrom Posts: 1,062
    I thought we already had an Astana-bashing thread. I'm having trouble keeping up here.
  • sing_for_absolution
    sing_for_absolution Posts: 1,908
    This has no credibility at all. I don't trust anyone whose intellect prompts them to post threads concerning races that are still months away. :P
  • victorponf
    victorponf Posts: 1,187
    The International Cycling Union (UCI) will do all it can to ensure that defending Tour de France winner Alberto Contador of Spain will take part in this year's edition of the cycle race, its president said Wednesday in a newspaper interview.

    If Mc Fly say that, then Astana is out for sure
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  • victorponf
    victorponf Posts: 1,187
    Freire for me again for stage 3
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  • redddraggon
    redddraggon Posts: 10,862
    Alberto Contador is no loss
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  • micron
    micron Posts: 1,843
    My gripe with the UCI is that they have totally mishandled the whole doping issue in the sport - now McQuaid lines up on the side of a rider implicated in OP and wants to get him riding in the TdF. This makes him look like a total doping apologist.

    Still, were he to get his way and then Contador be found guilty (as he is likely to be), it would be game over for the UCI having any control over the sport whatsoever.
  • andy_wrx
    andy_wrx Posts: 3,396
    Halfway down
    http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id= ... /feb20news
    ASO invites gets political attention
    Spanish politician Mariano Rajoy has called on French president Nicolas Sarkozy to pressure Tour de France organiser ASO into inviting 2007 winner Alberto Contador and his Astana team in this year's Tour according to Dutch newspaper The Telegraaf. ASO announced last week that Astana wouldn't be invited to contest any of its events this year, including the famed French Grand Tour, which starts in Brest on July 5.

    "You can't not take a 25 year-old rider, who only has a short time to ride at a professional level, to a race of that calibre," said Rajoy.

    ASO's decision not to invite Astana was met with dissatisfaction by Rajoy, the leader of the Spanish Peoples' Party, who believes the decision to be a blunder on the behalf of the French authorities.

    'a blunder' - he's havin' a larf...

    Keep 'em out !
  • dulldave
    dulldave Posts: 949
    Is there a petition of support for ASO we can sign?
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  • deejay
    deejay Posts: 3,138
    micron wrote:
    My gripe with the UCI is that they have totally mishandled the whole doping issue in the sport - now McQuaid lines up on the side of a rider implicated in OP and wants to get him riding in the TdF. This makes him look like a total doping apologist.

    Still, were he to get his way and then Contador be found guilty (as he is likely to be), it would be game over for the UCI having any control over the sport whatsoever.

    Your gripe......why its everybody's gripe if they any knowledge of Cycle Racing.

    The people who started this thread.
    Can't you see the Armstrong "Clone" and how bruyneel has changed this young rider into a copy.
    I really despair at your whimperings.

    And much as I hate to say this......Viva ASO and enough of the Belgian.
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  • donrhummy
    donrhummy Posts: 2,329
    Not saying this has anything to do with it but....


    18 of the last 22 Tours de France have been won by either a Spanish or American rider!

    That's 82%! (And that number's the same whether you consider Pereiro or Floyd the winner)
  • victorponf
    victorponf Posts: 1,187
    And any french since Hinault......It´s the problem, If i were a "gabacho" i would be very angry :lol:

    May be the old man that never was climber and become a Pantani last year in Dauphiné (nobody said nothing about that suspicious change) win this year ( :mrgreen: )
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  • flattythehurdler
    flattythehurdler Posts: 2,314
    Might as well be him as Contador :(
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  • victorponf
    victorponf Posts: 1,187
    victorponf wrote:
    And any french since Hinault......It´s the problem, If i were a "gabacho" i would be very angry :lol:

    May be the old man that never was climber and become a Pantani last year in Dauphiné (nobody said nothing about that suspicious change) win this year ( :mrgreen: )

    "Gabacho" is the way to said french in spanish

    In english is "frog", isn´t?

    Moreau main favourite of the tour (what a bad joke)
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  • micron
    micron Posts: 1,843
    I am French and I don't give a monkey's whether a French rider wins or not. However, I do care whether riders of any nationality want to f*ck up the Tour for the 3rd year running.
  • calvjones
    calvjones Posts: 3,850
    donrhummy wrote:
    Not saying this has anything to do with it but....


    18 of the last 22 Tours de France have been won by either a Spanish or American rider!

    That's 82%! (And that number's the same whether you consider Pereiro or Floyd the winner)

    Well, given that 1 german, 1 danish and 1 Italian winner were definitely eyeballed-up, and 3 of those 18 Spano-US victories were as clean as you can get in this godforsaken sport, I'm not sure what point you are making?
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  • deejay
    deejay Posts: 3,138
    calvjones wrote:

    Well, given that 1 german, 1 danish and 1 Italian winner were definitely eyeballed-up, and 3 of those 18 Spano-US victories were as clean as you can get in this godforsaken sport, I'm not sure what point you are making?

    Well I think that when Pantani won the tour, he was clean and the "Giro" failing came afterwards and his problems increased because of that.

    The Danish Cretin was obvious but never proved and the German exactly the same.
    The last 9 years would seem to follow the same trend and so IMO that Pantani was the last really clean winner.
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  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    deejay wrote:
    Pantani was the last really clean winner.
    :lol: :P :lol: :P :lol: :roll:
  • colint
    colint Posts: 1,707
    About time someone injected some humour into this thread, hilarious
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  • sing_for_absolution
    sing_for_absolution Posts: 1,908
    colint wrote:
    About time someone injected some humour into this thread, hilarious

    Indeed, indeed. :lol:
  • donrhummy
    donrhummy Posts: 2,329
    calvjones wrote:
    donrhummy wrote:
    Not saying this has anything to do with it but....


    18 of the last 22 Tours de France have been won by either a Spanish or American rider!

    That's 82%! (And that number's the same whether you consider Pereiro or Floyd the winner)

    Well, given that 1 german, 1 danish and 1 Italian winner were definitely eyeballed-up, and 3 of those 18 Spano-US victories were as clean as you can get in this godforsaken sport, I'm not sure what point you are making?

    You don't think the French are sick of Americans and Spaniards winning their tour? And Bruyneel and Contador are...

    Again, I'm not saying this is 100% why they denied them entry by any means, but it certainly didn't hurt.
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,549
    afx237vi wrote:
    Surprised no-one has mentioned...

    http://www.letleviride.com/

    I've signed neither FWIW. I disagree with ASO's decision, but it is their race, and you can't say the move was unexpected. Levi and Bertie should have known the risks.
    According to Bike Snob NYC this site is owned by Trek. Clearly they think they'll sell more bikes supporting Leipheimer (34?, bald, dull about as photogenic as a road kill badger, eternal nearly man) than Contador (25, proven winner, full head of hair, dodgy reputation).

    I think that says more about the state of the sport than anything McQuaid or ASO have done.
  • redddraggon
    redddraggon Posts: 10,862
    andyp wrote:
    afx237vi wrote:
    Surprised no-one has mentioned...

    http://www.letleviride.com/

    I've signed neither FWIW. I disagree with ASO's decision, but it is their race, and you can't say the move was unexpected. Levi and Bertie should have known the risks.
    According to Bike Snob NYC this site is owned by Trek. Clearly they think they'll sell more bikes supporting Leipheimer (34?, bald, dull about as photogenic as a road kill badger, eternal nearly man) than Contador (25, proven winner, full head of hair, dodgy reputation).

    I think that says more about the state of the sport than anything McQuaid or ASO have done.

    Only "45,123 Voices Heard", obviously not that many people are bothered about him missing out.
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  • mattm_uk
    mattm_uk Posts: 18
    http://letlevicry.com/
  • redddraggon
    redddraggon Posts: 10,862
    mattm_uk wrote:
    http://letlevicry.com/

    Nice, I like it.
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  • Doobz
    Doobz Posts: 2,800
    funny stuff..

    best bit
    And if you make enough links to LetLeviCry.com, we'll be able to buy a unicorn that shits gold eggs, or whatever it is that getting loads of hits to a website lets you do.

    I would still prefer to see rasmussen any day of the week then contador regardless of their doping habits.
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  • victorponf
    victorponf Posts: 1,187
    Bad news at the end

    Cofidis, Rabobank, Saunier y High Road in the start line, what a discrimination for Contador, Levi and Andreas Team
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  • micron
    micron Posts: 1,843
    Contador is currently strongly linked to OP, Leipheimer has been linked to Ferrari and Kloeden is being heavily implicated in the latest round of Telekom doping scandals - please now post the evidence where Cofidis, Rabobank, Saunier and High Road have 3 such high riders with such reputations - I don't think Valverde should be allowed to ride, no, because of the OP but I would like tthe reasons why the others should not be there?
  • turkeytickler
    turkeytickler Posts: 640
    mattm_uk wrote:
    http://letlevicry.com/
    fantastic! where do i sign? :D

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