4 Yellow Jerseys

timoid.
timoid. Posts: 3,133
edited October 2008 in Pro race
If as is rumured, a couple of Luxembourgers and a Spaniard are rumbled in this weeks tests, it'll make for 4 yellow jersey winners being positive this year. That's got to be some kind of record.

Bravo boys.

Rumours now swirling that a certain American on a German team is one of the targetted riders, as is a much improved Austrian for a defunct mineral water sponsored team.
It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired.

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  • redddraggon
    redddraggon Posts: 10,862
    Timoid. wrote:
    Rumours now swirling that a certain American on a German team is one of the targetted riders.

    There are no Americans on either Gerolsteiner or Team Milram........
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  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,549
    He's referring to a big rider on the ex T-Mobile (now Colombia) team.
  • redddraggon
    redddraggon Posts: 10,862
    andyp wrote:
    He's referring to a big rider on the ex T-Mobile (now Colombia) team.

    Ahh an American on a American team......I knew who he meant but I was just being pedantic :wink:
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  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    Timoid. wrote:
    Rumours now swirling that a certain American on a German team is one of the targetted riders, as is a much improved Austrian for a defunct mineral water sponsored team.
    Not surprised at all by the second, but the first would have huge impact
  • Cumulonimbus
    Cumulonimbus Posts: 1,730
    Rumours, rumours, rumours. Then again i had noticed that said rider nearly won a mountain stage this year and thought it was a bit suspicious given the reaction to his win a few years back :wink:
  • timoid.
    timoid. Posts: 3,133
    redddraggon wrote:
    andyp wrote:
    He's referring to a big rider on the ex T-Mobile (now Colombia) team.

    Ahh an American on a American team......I knew who he meant but I was just being pedantic :wink:


    Up until a moment ago, I thought the team was still registered in Germany.

    The actual rumours refer to a German-American team.
    It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired.
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    Can I just warn everyone, if that team do return a positive I will be quite insufferable for a while with my gloating and "told you so"
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,549
    More insufferable than you've been already? :wink:
  • jimmythecuckoo
    jimmythecuckoo Posts: 4,718
    andyp wrote:
    He's referring to a big rider on the ex T-Mobile (now Colombia) team.

    who makes jeans?

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  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    edited October 2008
    iainf72 wrote:
    Can I just warn everyone, if that team do return a positive I will be quite insufferable for a while with my gloating and "told you so"
    I know, I've been expecting this, I thought the news might flush you out of your retirement... :wink:

    But feel free to lay into Stapleton on my behalf if the worst happens. Does Columbia make a flak jacket?
  • Yorkman
    Yorkman Posts: 290
    If that big rider is positive, how many of LA's former domestiques have not tested positive?

    I doubt you'd need more than one hand to count them.
  • stagehopper
    stagehopper Posts: 1,593
    Yorkman wrote:
    If that big rider is positive, how many of LA's former domestiques have not tested positive?

    I think you'll just have Lance left so one finger might suffice.
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  • redddraggon
    redddraggon Posts: 10,862
    stagehopper wrote:
    Yorkman wrote:
    If that big rider is positive, how many of LA's former domestiques have not tested positive?

    I think you'll just have Lance left so one finger might suffice.

    Nah there's still quite a few....
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  • timoid.
    timoid. Posts: 3,133
    Nobody's caught Levi yet.


    Somehow.
    It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired.
  • calvjones
    calvjones Posts: 3,850
    Rubiera is now with Astana isn't he, so he must be clean as they use Damsgaard

    Eh?



    Oh?


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  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Timoid. wrote:
    Nobody's caught Levi yet.


    Somehow.

    Levi never rode on the same TDF team as Lance.
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    Pooh.

    There's not going to be a huge list according to Prudhomme.
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,549
    Told you Iain - you should've listened. :wink:
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    andyp wrote:
    Told you Iain - you should've listened. :wink:

    You're supposed to be one of my many secret sources!

    Let's all hope for a Columbia - I've got a righteous rant lined up.
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • jimmerslimmer
    jimmerslimmer Posts: 63
    Two questions arise from the current situation and in particular the rumours surrounding the American riding for a 'German/American' team.

    1. Are the riders found to have doped still liable to criminal proceedings in France? Might someone go to jail? Do we get to vote who...?

    2. What would happen to the <cough>credibility</cough> of a Colorado burrito eating team who happen to be 'presented by' H30 which is part owned by said American riding for a 'German/American' team?

    The next few days could be interesting.

    BTW the smart money has to be on Kohl.
  • stagehopper
    stagehopper Posts: 1,593
    jimmerslimmer wrote:
    Two questions arise from the current situation and in particular the rumours surrounding the American riding for a 'German/American' team.

    1. Are the riders found to have doped still liable to criminal proceedings in France? Might someone go to jail? Do we get to vote who...?

    2. What would happen to the <cough>credibility</cough> of a Colorado burrito eating team who happen to be 'presented by' H30 which is part owned by said American riding for a 'German/American' team?

    The next few days could be interesting.

    BTW the smart money has to be on Kohl.

    The questions are utterly superfluous until the far-too-many rumours crystallise to a core of facts which may not involve either 1) or 2).
    @stagehopper
  • secretsqirrel
    secretsqirrel Posts: 2,123
    calvjones wrote:
    Rubiera is now with Astana isn't he, so he must be clean as they use Damsgaard

    Eh?



    Oh?


    I'll just get me coat...

    Is Damsgaard as good as ScotchguardTM?
    Nothing sticks to my carpet.

    Pass my coat while you're there! :oops:
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    Today's news

    “The tests are still underway, they are not all done yet,” French Anti-Doping Agency (AFLD) head Pierre Bordry told Reuters on Wednesday.
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    Damsgaard has commented now as have CSC.

    They say the riders involved have recieved letters but no one from CSC has. And Damsgaard says he'd detect CERA but has ordered the blood from the CSC riders to be tested at the Swiss lab again

    http://www.sporten.dk/csc-foler-sig-renset

    Still don't explain why Cancellera said he was "tranquilo" a few days ago. He may as well have just shot at up the press conference with talk like that :wink:
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.

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