Ricco's ban reduced

iainf72
iainf72 Posts: 15,784
edited March 2009 in Pro race
Back in time for the Giro...

Ha, made you look

http://sports.yahoo.com/sc/news?slug=re ... &type=lgns

4 months off for being a grass.
Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.

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  • moray_gub
    moray_gub Posts: 3,328
    iainf72 wrote:
    Back in time for the Giro...

    Ha, made you look

    http://sports.yahoo.com/sc/news?slug=re ... &type=lgns

    4 months off for being a grass.

    Handy that Just in time for him to drop off the top of the Poggio again in 2010. Given that Sella was given a year for being a grass i can see why he felt hard done by. Ricco has a big problem in that most folk and fellow riders think he was a dick and didnt like him at all so he will struggle for any support when he comes back where as Basso seems to be Mr Popular and has fitted back in like a glove.


    MG
    Gasping - but somehow still alive !
  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    Now is the time for Riccardo to start a blog, to talk to some PR people, to register for a Twitter account and launch the PR campaign.

    Basso though had the advantage of being busted on the sly, for an "attempt" and not in the middle of the Tour de France. Ricco had influence the race and won two stages and gifted another to his partner in crime Piepoli before he was carted away in front of the TV cameras.
  • dave_1
    dave_1 Posts: 9,512
    damn...I was hoping he would be kept out longer...Basso has missed 3 TDFs, a few Vuelta opportunities and the 07, 08 Giros....that's hell of a costly considering they were prime years for him 28-30 years old...Ricco being younger...its nothing much...imagine listening to him talking about clean cycling :roll:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKBacb2V ... ata_player
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,731
    Just about right. You have to give even him, sometime off for grassing, otherwise there's absolutely no incentive to talk.

    Now, what we really need is for Vino to ask for 6 months off to turn canary!
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    I imagine Vino to be like Johnny Tightlips in the Simpsons... He's old school.

    "Johnny where are you hit?"

    "I ain't saying nuttin'"

    "What shall I tell the Doc?"

    "Tell him to go suck a lemon"
    "In many ways, my story was that of a raging, Christ-like figure who hauled himself off the cross, looked up at the Romans with blood in his eyes and said 'My turn, sock cookers'"

    @gietvangent
  • DavMartinR
    DavMartinR Posts: 897
    Who did he grass on? It wouldn't be his team mate Piepoli would it ??
  • dave_1
    dave_1 Posts: 9,512
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Just about right. You have to give even him, sometime off for grassing, otherwise there's absolutely no incentive to talk.

    Now, what we really need is for Vino to ask for 6 months off to turn canary!

    who did he grass up again? I forgot...just remember the mags covering him pre ban and showing he had Pantani's soigneur..and also had contact with maybe one other dodgy dr like Di Luca's???
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKBacb2V ... ata_player
  • calvjones
    calvjones Posts: 3,850
    The Court of Arbitration for Sport partially upheld his appeal on the grounds of his "active cooperation" when he explained that Leonardo Piepoli also took CERA last year


    Sung like a canary then :roll:
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