Is the Giro

flattythehurdler
flattythehurdler Posts: 2,314
edited June 2008 in Pro race
Like the Tour without the doping controls. Take roughly what you like and may the best man win?
Or is it just me?
Dan

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  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    flattythehurdler wrote:
    Like the Tour without the doping controls. Take roughly what you like and may the best man win?
    Or is it just me?

    It's just you.

    When we there these amazing doping controls in the Tour then?
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • jimmythecuckoo
    jimmythecuckoo Posts: 4,718
    To be fair, they did catch the careless at Le Tour.
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  • Salsiccia
    Salsiccia Posts: 405
    Perhaps no-one was on anything during the Giro... :wink:
    I was only joking when I said
    by rights you should be bludgeoned in your bed
  • Doobz
    Doobz Posts: 2,800
    Or the quality of the doping was very high.. :) - I like to think it was a clean race though. Or maybe they are learning not to wash their dirty laundry in public as it does not do the sport any good..
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  • DaveyL
    DaveyL Posts: 5,167
    Well, at the Tour Vino was busted, Kash was busted after the Tour. Moreni and Mayo were busted during the Tour. I guess you can't really count Sinketwitz's positive as it happened in June but was announced during the Tour. Still, that's four riders busted (plus Rasmussen huckled out during the Tour). I would have thought there'd be at least one positive during the Giro. It could be that fewer riders are taking the chance, or perhaps it fits better with the world weary/cynical (delete as appropriate) view of your average cycling fan to say they are just more careful these days.
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    There was. Forgotten our old friends, Navigare, started with 8 men? Then there was Astarloa's stomach troubles, that were so bad, Milram promptly fired him. :roll:

    That's so far. I wonder what is lurking around the corner? We had a load of "tummy withdrawels". It only takes a minute for rumour to become fact. :wink:
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  • timoid.
    timoid. Posts: 3,133
    What about the bootload of viagra for one of the Gerolsteiner chappies?
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  • drenkrom
    drenkrom Posts: 1,062
    The Tour is not that revolutionary. The only reason they nabbed Vino is that some journalists saw him stow into the back of a van, drive off, and come back to the hotel an hour later, on the morning of the TT. Then they ran a more specific test. Had those guys stayed in bed that morning, Vino would still be in the peloton. And so would Kash, then. Take out the Astana boys, and there's been just as much doping stuff going on at the Giro, just less journalists to make a huge thing out of it.

    Richeze, Astarloa and Moletta's father's very serious ED problems equals the tally of Moreni, Mayo and the chicken. Clearly lower on the scandal-o-meter, though.
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    Timoid. wrote:
    What about the bootload of viagra for one of the Gerolsteiner chappies?

    And probably some EPO in the toothpaste tubes.

    And the staggering amounts of viagra does indicate it wasn't just for one guys use.
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • JC.152
    JC.152 Posts: 645
    Hopefully the giro was cleeaner than earlier tours with all the contenders having at least one bad day
  • drenkrom
    drenkrom Posts: 1,062
    You do realize people have bad days even when they dope, right?

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