Two year ban recommended for Di Luca

Kléber

Ah, Eric Van Lanker. From nowhere and nobody to someone capable of crushing the field in Liege - Bastogne - Liege with 40 km to go. Proof that the hotsauce was on sale north of the Dolomites?

andyp

Kléber wrote:

Ah, Eric Van Lanker. From nowhere and nobody to someone capable of crushing the field in Liege - Bastogne - Liege with 40 km to go. Proof that the hotsauce was on sale north of the Dolomites?

Hmm. 1990 was it? So possible.

But he was riding for Panasonic and I seem to recall that they had a number of riders in the chase group which meant no-one was willing to chase en bloc for fear of towing Theunisse, Dhaenens or Fondriest to the finish.

dave_1

Kléber wrote:

Ah, Eric Van Lanker. From nowhere and nobody to someone capable of crushing the field in Liege - Bastogne - Liege with 40 km to go. Proof that the hotsauce was on sale north of the Dolomites?

Van Lanker won the Milk Race in 1985...he was a very good rider...before EPO existed in the peleton and was simply a good domestique with some decent classic wins...he never delieverd at the grand tours, depsite being spoken of as a climber for GT terrain.

dave_1

iainf72 wrote:

You lot clearly didn't drink / do enough drugs during the 90's. I'm astonished at the level of detail you can remember.

I remember all those guys and some of the races, but whoa, colour me impressed.

:oops: I want a pub quiz about the 1980s professional cycling...I reckon i could win, but Andyp would and yourself would be strong challengers :

iainf72

Di Luca hearing on 01/04

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/cycling/ ... 3273_x.htm

jimmythecuckoo

iainf72 wrote:

Kléber wrote:

The PDM team was very dominant, it had several riders capable of top-10 places in the Tour GC.

Wasn't it terrible when the entire team was struck down with a stomach bug?

There can't be anything significant in that, Sean Kelly was on that team.

iainf72

jimmythecuckoo wrote:

iainf72 wrote:

Kléber wrote:

The PDM team was very dominant, it had several riders capable of top-10 places in the Tour GC.

Wasn't it terrible when the entire team was struck down with a stomach bug?

There can't be anything significant in that, Sean Kelly was on that team.

No, of course not. Dutch super team all coming down with a bug right at the start of the 90's.

:roll:

OffTheBackAdam

It was blamed on a contaminated batch of iv fluids, a lipid preparation of some sort, IIRC.

iainf72

OffTheBackAdam wrote:

It was blamed on a contaminated batch of iv fluids, a lipid preparation of some sort, IIRC.

Quite.

Knowing what you know now, can you still take that at face value?

Kléber

You can read more about PDM here:
http://www.cyclingnews.com/results/arch ... ov28a.html
http://www.cyclingnews.com/results/arch ... /dec1.html

An interesting quote from the second link:
"President of the UCI, Hein Verbruggen, said when he was told of the intrapilid catastrophe, "the greatest poisoner of West Europe". The French doctor, Jean-Daniel Fleysakier said the riders would have been very ill with "high fever, a feeling like influenza, muscle pain and neck cramp, typical of of an overdose of EPO."

Krikke tried to close the gap of negative publicity for his sponsor in the meanwhile, believeing that he could avoid a more extensive enquiry, but came to two press conferences without one plausible medical explanation. Tour Boss LeBlanc was furious, and immediately placed a ban on PDM for the 1992 Tour. "I do not have one hundred percent confidence that PDM in this affair have behaved properly, but have acted with deceit and trickery. Team leader Gisbers is a small time crook and liar." said Leblanc."

Plus ca change, eh?

dave_1

Kléber wrote:

You can read more about PDM here:
http://www.cyclingnews.com/results/arch ... ov28a.html
http://www.cyclingnews.com/results/arch ... /dec1.html

An interesting quote from the second link:
"President of the UCI, Hein Verbruggen, said when he was told of the intrapilid catastrophe, "the greatest poisoner of West Europe". The French doctor, Jean-Daniel Fleysakier said the riders would have been very ill with "high fever, a feeling like influenza, muscle pain and neck cramp, typical of of an overdose of EPO."

Krikke tried to close the gap of negative publicity for his sponsor in the meanwhile, believeing that he could avoid a more extensive enquiry, but came to two press conferences without one plausible medical explanation. Tour Boss LeBlanc was furious, and immediately placed a ban on PDM for the 1992 Tour. "I do not have one hundred percent confidence that PDM in this affair have behaved properly, but have acted with deceit and trickery. Team leader Gisbers is a small time crook and liar." said Leblanc."

Plus ca change, eh?

I can't rememebr any such sentiments by Leblanc...PDM rode the 1992 TDF and were gone by end of 92. Breukink placed top 10 at TDF I think..., didn't Van Popel win a stage? Kelly went to Festina in 1992 though..he was done with PDM as was Earley

LangerDan

Its hard to imagine cyclingnews.com publishing articles like that these days - that looks more like something from cyclingfansanonymous