Giro "Big Name" to be Busted

blazing_saddles
blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
edited May 2010 in Pro race
Here we go. Pat's immaculate timing. Take your bets on which dodgy Eyetalian is going down.........
http://www.tuttobiciweb.it/index.php?pa ... 28907&tp=n
"Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
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  • Hibbs
    Hibbs Posts: 291
    Isn't there some politics between ASO and the Giro organisers, and something to do with the Tour of Cali being moved to try to damage the Giro? If so, like you say, good timing. I'm betting the EPO... sorry... AMGEN Tour of California won't have any positive tests.
  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    It is bad timing in the sense that the panel has had time to review the data. If anything they need to act before the race, they can't sit and pronounce whilst the "star" is wearing the pink jersey.

    You'd hope they could review the riders in question and target them appropriately, so that a big name for the Giro could be reviewed long before the race starts.

    Still it is a blunder to say "it's a big name from the Giro", there shouldn't be a mention of anything until the case is ready, trailing ideas in advance is not what the boss of a governing body should be doing.
  • rich_pcp
    rich_pcp Posts: 113
    Well, if it's an Italian that rules out Denis
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    rich pcp wrote:
    Well, if it's an Italian that rules out Denis

    And he's not doing the Giro

    Dr Ferrari posted this in April. Does make you wonder if one of his riders have been flagged up. Or perhaps "that is a bulls*it"
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Definitely says high level Italian athlete. Announcement later today, or tomorrow.
    http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/high-pr ... case-close
    Carrying it's own version of the Tutto scoop.

    I agree with Kleber. Another botched announcement.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • csp
    csp Posts: 777
    PTP - High Profile Doping Case
    Damiano Cunego
  • hockinsk
    hockinsk Posts: 100
    I'm going for Pettachi or Garzelli.
  • Yorkman
    Yorkman Posts: 290
    I'll plump for Simoni.

    The negative noises from him this last 2 weeks about whether he will/ won't ride the Giro after all may be no more than coincidence, of course.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    I was struck by a sudden thought. ( I know, painful)
    This may be a conspiracy theory too far, but isn't today the day when Angelo Zomegnan makes his final, final announcement, re the teams taking part in the Giro?
    Coincidence?

    I'm not sure when the UCI first muted this situation, but it's going back a while.

    Therefore, my money is on either Tirreno Scarponi or Garzelli and maybe their team getting the Giro boot, in favour of ISD.........

    ......update. Just read that 5 riders will be named. :(
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • Pork Sword
    Pork Sword Posts: 213
    We know that there has been a glut of Spanish riders either accused of, or proven to be dopers... now it looks like the Italians are trying to compete at the top-level too!

    Simoni? Garzelli? Cunego? Where will it all end?! :oops:
    let all your saddles be comfy and all your rides less bumpy....
  • sherer
    sherer Posts: 2,460
    It could be Ballan with the investigation that has been going on. I think Sambroggio is back racing with BMC now and he isn't

    i'm all for catching the dopers but what I find annoying is all these stories about catching so called stars and then they just fizzle out into nothing.

    Either announce a positive or don't.
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    Some people are suggesting they're using the Italians as a test, as you're a lot more likely to get some action out of the Italians than the Spanish.

    Oh well - Better out than in I always say
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    Ok

    It's a Russian, 2 Spaniards, 2 Italians and a Slovenian.

    Apparently.
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • Yellow Peril
    Yellow Peril Posts: 4,466
    iainf72 wrote:
    Ok

    It's a Russian, 2 Spaniards, 2 Italians and a Slovenian.

    Apparently.[/quote


    I hope it is a Slovenian and not a Slovakian!
    @JaunePeril

    Winner of the Bike Radar Pro Race Wiggins Hour Prediction Competition
  • dave_1
    dave_1 Posts: 9,512
    maybe its people who have done little racing this year and in the autumn last year perhaps? i can think of two
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKBacb2V ... ata_player
  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    iainf72 wrote:
    Ok

    It's a Russian, 2 Spaniards, 2 Italians and a Slovenian.

    Apparently.

    Link! Link! Link!

    Please.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    johnfinch wrote:
    iainf72 wrote:
    Ok

    It's a Russian, 2 Spaniards, 2 Italians and a Slovenian.

    Apparently.

    Link! Link! Link!

    Please.

    Susan W, of Cyclingnews, has posted the same. It's on Tutto, apparently.
    http://www.tuttobiciweb.it/index.php
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • Doobz
    Doobz Posts: 2,800
    I cant wait - more exiting then christmas
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  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    johnfinch wrote:
    iainf72 wrote:
    Ok

    It's a Russian, 2 Spaniards, 2 Italians and a Slovenian.

    Apparently.

    Link! Link! Link!

    Please.

    Susan W, of Cyclingnews, has posted the same. It's on Tutto, apparently.
    http://www.tuttobiciweb.it/index.php

    Thanks.
  • Bakunin
    Bakunin Posts: 868
    Did the story say that Italian was in the Tour last year -- Pellizotti?
  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    Bingo!

    He's just been withdrawn from a pre-Giro Liquigas press conference.

    2 + 2 = ?
  • SpaceJunk
    SpaceJunk Posts: 1,157
    Well Cyclingnews is saying:

    "Gazzetta dello Sport suggest six riders could be named"

    And then the articles goes on to say, that "Gazzetta dello Sport reported that between five and eight riders could be named, suggesting that they could include a Russian, two Spaniards, a Slovenian and probably two Italians, of whom one is riding the Giro d'Italia with ambitions of success. Gazzetta added that this rider's passport problems refer to the 2009 Tour de France".

    http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/high-profile-italian-doping-case-close
  • SpaceJunk
    SpaceJunk Posts: 1,157
    Kléber wrote:
    Bingo!

    He's just been withdrawn from a pre-Giro Liquigas press conference.

    2 + 2 = ?

    If it is Glenn Close in question, and he is the rider that is referred to by Gazzetta dello Sport as being the rider whose "passport problems refer to the 2009 Tour de France", makes you wonder why it has taken so long - 10 months for him to be caught.
  • Bakunin
    Bakunin Posts: 868
    iainf72 wrote:
    rich pcp wrote:
    Well, if it's an Italian that rules out Denis

    And he's not doing the Giro

    Dr Ferrari posted this in April. Does make you wonder if one of his riders have been flagged up. Or perhaps "that is a bulls*it"

    Do you think that "hereditary spherocytosis" will be the response to any passport violations?
  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    A genetic test will prove that very quickly Bakunin.
  • DaveyL
    DaveyL Posts: 5,167
    Squeaky bum time at Leaky-gas? There always has been a whiff about that team...
    Le Blaireau (1)
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Confirmation of Pellizotti's absence:
    http://twitter.com/CQranking

    Looks like Simoni's made up his mind........

    Doesn't look as if Caisse and the "Bruiser" are implicated.
    http://sport.fok.nl/nieuws/383294/1/1/1 ... eghin.html
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    It's Pellizotti
  • SpaceJunk
    SpaceJunk Posts: 1,157
    Yep Gregor Brown just confirmed on Twitter

    Passport issues
  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    What's the crack with Gibo?
    "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

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