Now Ricco gets busted for EPO

MarkMcp
MarkMcp Posts: 426
edited July 2008 in Pro race
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  • redddraggon
    redddraggon Posts: 10,862
    Your Source?
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  • MarkMcp
    MarkMcp Posts: 426
    Reuters wire headline
  • will3
    will3 Posts: 2,173
    linky?
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    I've been expecting it.

    I would like to shake someone at the AFLD's hand. Amazing work.
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    http://www.lequipe.fr/Cyclisme/breves20 ... f_Dev.html
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • MarkMcp
    MarkMcp Posts: 426
    Just a headline so far " Italian Cyclist Riccardo Ricco tests positive for EPO-French anti-doping agency"
  • graeme_s-2
    graeme_s-2 Posts: 3,382
    This is going to be a much bigger story isn't it, what with him being a double stage winner, and a younger rider supposedly from the post-doping generation(s)? :(
  • richa
    richa Posts: 1,632
    Oh dear :(
    Rich
  • PutneyJoe
    PutneyJoe Posts: 242
    Aagh!!!!!!
  • jim one
    jim one Posts: 183
    http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528, ... 36,00.html
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,549
    I think ASO should sign up Dave_1 as he can clearly spot the dopers!
  • Jeff Jones
    Jeff Jones Posts: 1,865
    http://www.bikeradar.com/news/article/r ... ance-17591
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  • alanmcn1
    alanmcn1 Posts: 531
    BBC now have it too........................tour is fucked
    Robert Millar for knighthood
  • Adieu
    Adieu Posts: 83
    Oh no. :(
  • redddraggon
    redddraggon Posts: 10,862
    Ricco, what a n00b
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  • muggomagic
    muggomagic Posts: 39
    oh dear.

    This will look very bad for the tour. The other 2 they labelled them as nobodies that just did it to survive the tour! Ricco is a potential tour winner.
  • richa
    richa Posts: 1,632
    muggomagic wrote:
    oh dear.

    This will look very bad for the tour. The other 2 they labelled them as nobodies that just did it to survive the tour! Ricco is a potential tour winner.
    Ricco was a potential tour winner...
    Rich
  • DaveyL
    DaveyL Posts: 5,167
    I continue to fail to see how it can be bad for either the Tour or the sport when cheats get caught. Let's see other sports subject their athletes to such targeted and frequent testing.
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    andyp wrote:
    I think ASO should sign up Dave_1 as he can clearly spot the dopers!

    I think most people had serious reservations about him.
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  • avoidingmyphd
    avoidingmyphd Posts: 1,154
    aaarrrrrgh.

    Anyone know what "3rd generation" epo or "cera" means?

    This tells me that these riders are convinced that they are taking something undetectable. We just sit at home looking at the pc, and we know Ricco was being targeted by the testers. Yet he pulls off that ET/Pantani/Rasmussen attack anyway. He must have thought he was uncatchable.

    Makes Piepoli-Cobo 1-2 look even more suspicious. Back to the Gewiss days?
  • robmanic1
    robmanic1 Posts: 2,150
    DISSAPOINTED!!! :x

    This c*ck has no excuse, he clearly has a natural talent and now he's gone and given the "dailies" more amunition to dis our sport. Goddamitt, more p*ss taking from the non-cycling fraternity!!!
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  • idaviesmoore
    idaviesmoore Posts: 557
    It was nothing to do with Ricco. It was the picture of Pantani that he keeps in his back pocket that rubbed off onto his skin. It acted like a nicotine patch :shock:

    Sorry...shouldn't joke..but...you know :)
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  • Arkibal
    Arkibal Posts: 850
    whoa! This is huge!
  • muggomagic
    muggomagic Posts: 39
    I continue to fail to see how it can be bad for either the Tour or the sport when cheats get caught. Let's see other sports subject their athletes to such targeted and frequent testing.

    It doesn't seem to work that way though. Take last year for example. TV companies turned their backs on the tour. Some just pulled their coverage after Vino was caught out.
    I'm glad the cheats are caught, but it's the fact they cheat that harms the tour and pro cycling.
  • Mog Uk
    Mog Uk Posts: 964
    Bang goes my Fantasy tour team.. unless I get bonus points for a banned rider....

    What a fool.....
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  • Adieu
    Adieu Posts: 83
    Does this call into question the rest of the Saunier Duval-Scott team?
  • muggomagic
    muggomagic Posts: 39
    Just need a Cavendish, Millar 1 and 2 today and the papers might have something positive to lead with tomorrow.
  • sing_for_absolution
    sing_for_absolution Posts: 1,908
    Look on the bright side. At least he got caught before he had the chance to ride head-on into a car, lose his hair, grow a beard and then go on the dangerous downward slope of drugs.
  • jimmythecuckoo
    jimmythecuckoo Posts: 4,718
    ha ha, what a shock not!
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  • DaveyL
    DaveyL Posts: 5,167
    Damsgaard will be wiping an ever-so-small portion of egg from his face, after chiding the authorities for not busting any big name riders.
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