Damsgaard calls Ricco "simple minded"

iainf72
iainf72 Posts: 15,784
edited July 2008 in Pro race
ROFL.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/07/20/sports/DRUGS.php

Begs the question though, how would he change what they're doing to nab people?
Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.

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  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    "But what about all the other guys who are doing it in a more clever way? They are not being caught here." says the Danish doctor.

    Given Saunier Duval looked highly suspicious, are there any other teams dominating the race this summer? :idea:
  • ricadus
    ricadus Posts: 2,379
    Above all of that looms the question that is perhaps the most unanswerable: Why, when there seems to be a possibility of being caught, do riders continue to try to cheat?

    Surely that's not so difficult: some riders’ careers have been built on assistance from the beginning, to the point that they cannot or dare not race without it.

    The image of the dope cheat presented is usually one of a rider who has slipped from the straight and narrow: a veteran rider desperate to hang on to a few more years at the top; or someone who has hit a ceiling just short of their ambitions; or a younger rider who hasn’t the maturity to deal with the inevitable fallow period following a major initial success (e.g. Millar).

    Yet here we have Ricco, who if the rumours are true, has been doping since junior level – so either a lot of blind eyes have been turned or Italian race authorities are incompetent – and how do you deal with that? How do you deal with someone whose race potential and self-delusional attitude may from the beginning have been built on chemical assistance in an environment (Italian regional amateur racing) where it is apparently not difficult to have a network of suppliers and patrons to help you beat the system?

    The problem needs to be viewed as one a lot earlier than when riders reach the pro peloton and one involving weak structures and organised crime, not just a few weak individuals.
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  • donrhummy
    donrhummy Posts: 2,329
    Ricco simpleminded? You really think Ricco was the one putting together his doping program? If so, he's an unhealthy person, unethical and a cheater but definitely not simple-minded. Putting together a doping program that beats all tests for 8-9 years (assuming he's been doping as long as we've heard) is far from simple and to do so while also training hard as a pro-cyclist is, in a backwards way, pretty impressive.

    I have a feeling that Ricco was not the one doing the research and planning to decide what drugs and dosages he needed to beat the tests for all those years and also gain a performance advantage.

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