Schumacher Get's a Green light to ride in 2009?

blazing_saddles
blazing_saddles Posts: 21,741
edited January 2009 in Pro race
What on earth's going on? From today's CNs.

Schumacher ready to ride
Stefan Schumacher has applied for his 2009 license and expects to receive it momentarily, so that he can ride for Team Quick-Step this season.

This statement isn't followed by the usual UCI retractions/rebutals; none in fact. Even the AFDL appear about to close the case. :?

Does this have something to do with pouring oil on the turbulent waters of German cycling and tv coverage?

So if QS and Leferve have to honour his contract.....
"Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.

Comments

  • Gav888
    Gav888 Posts: 946
    I thought you was going to say Micheal Schumacher for a min!!!
    Cycling never gets any easier, you just go faster - Greg LeMond
  • stagehopper
    stagehopper Posts: 1,593
    German Fed have said they're contacting the UCI to see if he is registered with them, AFLD to find out the progress of the investigation and QS to find out if he has a contract. Surely we'll hear more later.
  • The Bund Deutscher Radfahrer (BDR, the German cycling federation) has a list of questions that need to be answered before it issues a license to Stefan Schumacher. The German rider's attorney said recently that there is no reason for the license to be denied.

    Interviewed on muax.de, BDR vice-president Udo Sprenger confirmed receiving Schumacher's application. The first step is for confirmation that Schumacher is registered with the International Cycling Union. "So we have asked the UCI, which team he is registered with, if any."
    The next step is the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA), "asking them to get in touch with the French national anti-doping agency [AFLD] to find out the current status of the investigation."

    Spoke too soon. Love the German agency's acronym.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    Pat McQuaid confirms there is no reason not to give him a licence

    http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id= ... jan23news2
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    Pat McQuaid confirms that he doesn't understand the WADA code that he and the UCI have signed up to. Schumacher can apply for German racing licence, only he will not be able to race with it because he's provisionally suspended.
    In the meantime, strictly speaking – as in proper civil law – everyone is innocent until proven guilty
    - McQuaid, quoted by cyclingnews.com
    when an A Sample Adverse Analytical Finding is received for a Prohibited Substance... a Provisional Suspension shall be imposed promptly
    - WADA code, rule 7.5.1

    Sing along now...

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  • Wonder what his old TdF room mate is thinking now? Could Kohl get a lighter sentence if he split the beans on Schumacher?
  • The Sit Com that continues to give........
    ...a bit more of Kleber's source/post:-

    McQuaid states delay could give green light to Schumacher
    UCI may be forced to give licence due to AFLD delay


    It's now over three months since the French anti-doping agency (AFLD) announced Stefan Schumacher as positive for doping with blood booster Erythropoietin CERA, yet the International Cycling Union (UCI) may be forced to give him a 2009 racing licence due to delays with the sanctioning process. According to UCI President Pat McQuaid, the governing body needs to wait for the AFLD to move on the case and, until then, must act as if Schumacher is innocent.
    :lol:
    You couldn't write this stuff. Comedy classic.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • teagar
    teagar Posts: 2,100
    Surely it's irrelevant?

    Quick-Step's contract with him must have a " if you get caught doping the contract is void" clause.
    Even if the positive doesn't void the contract, couldn't Quick-Step just not enter him in any races? Or is that also fixed into the contract?

    I'm pretty sure however good Schumacher is Quick-Step won't want him now?
    Note: the above post is an opinion and not fact. It might be a lie.
  • dave_1
    dave_1 Posts: 9,512
    surely no team or race will allow this schumacher eejit anywhere near them? The riders will not tolerate him in the peleton I doubt given he'd wreck the chance of any good headlines of any race-