Pevenage about to spill the beans....

iainf72
iainf72 Posts: 15,784
edited July 2008 in Pro race
Well, the Tour has just started....

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show ... oping.html
Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.

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  • takethehighroad
    takethehighroad Posts: 6,821
    I don't know if I'm being naive, but I don't believe Ullrich doped to a great extent. OK, so it's quite clear '96 and quite probably '97 he did, but then to continue to do it just to come 2nd every year? I don't see the point.
  • calvjones
    calvjones Posts: 3,850
    TakeTheHighRoad wrote:
    I don't know if I'm being naive, but I don't believe Ullrich doped to a great extent. OK, so it's quite clear '96 and quite probably '97 he did, but then to continue to do it just to come 2nd every year? I don't see the point.

    Um.. becuase he didn't know he was going to come second?

    Coast are suing him for doping in 2003, so I suspect your optimism is misplaced.
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  • method
    method Posts: 784
    TakeTheHighRoad wrote:
    I don't know if I'm being naive, but I don't believe Ullrich doped to a great extent. OK, so it's quite clear '96 and quite probably '97 he did, but then to continue to do it just to come 2nd every year? I don't see the point.

    To turn up as out of shape as he was and still come second is quite an achievement.
  • Jez mon
    Jez mon Posts: 3,809
    Just come second???

    Being on the podium most years was a big achievement. People may slag him off for being fat and out of shape, but generally he was able to get it together for July. IF he was a big user of PEDs, then it asks big questions about those who beat him
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  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    He was fat at the start of the season but by the time he'd do the Tour of Switzerland, mid-June, he'd be back to his racing form, those stick-like calves and piston thighs.

    As for not doping in more recent times, come off it :roll: Do you think he was dropping Pantani, Basso, Beloki, Heras, Landis, even giving Armstrong a run for his money at times, as well as all the others just thanks to bread and water? He was an enormous talent, but boosted by doping, and probably throughout his entire career, from his early days in the East German system to his last days with T-Mobile and the shady Freiburg clinic and Dr Fuentes's network.
  • donrhummy
    donrhummy Posts: 2,329
    Wasn't Ullrich the highest paid Cyclist outside Lance? That's not a small thing. (And neither is a TDf victory and a bunch of 2nd places).

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