Swallowing Clenbuterol and other Excuses
Sergeant Rock
Posts: 56
Mmm .... just finished a nice Spanish steak and fortunately for me it was 'accidently' laced with clenbuterol by those ever so thoughtful Spanish farmers who wont to help me with my terrible breathing problems and weight loss issues. It came as a ready meal with 'boil in the bag' vegetables with added plasticisers – 'just to help the flavour' of course.
I suppose it is no great surprise that the Spanish Cycling Federation caved in to national pressure, ten days after they found Contador guilty, and now he is free to ride again.
I've followed cycling's self destructive acts from the days when riders were substituting somebody else's urine and blood for theirs. Then there were 'special' creams to help with those 'persistent' saddle sores and Ventolin inhalers for the many 'chronically asthmatic' riders in the peloton. We have also witnessed the birth of Tylor Hamilton's unborn twin, the tears of the 'housewife's favorite' - Monsieur Virenque, the 'Lazarus-like' recovery of 'Floyd Landis' and now we have 'cowgate'.
I'd like to think I was a fair man, innocent until proven guilty and all that, but, there must be a better way of dealing with these cases. Why are they left to national bodies to sort out? – high profile cases like this should go straight to the UCI and then the Court of Arbitration for Sport because that is inevitably where they get resolved. Hopefully the ever hapless and seemingly toothless UCI will appeal against this judgement.
As for me, if Contador gets away with this excuse I think I might try EPO stuffed chicken or amphetamine fed spring lamb. By July I think I'll be doing sub 20 minute '10s' and no-one will be able to touch me - I will of course be eating only the best 'organically' reared Spanish meat.
I suppose it is no great surprise that the Spanish Cycling Federation caved in to national pressure, ten days after they found Contador guilty, and now he is free to ride again.
I've followed cycling's self destructive acts from the days when riders were substituting somebody else's urine and blood for theirs. Then there were 'special' creams to help with those 'persistent' saddle sores and Ventolin inhalers for the many 'chronically asthmatic' riders in the peloton. We have also witnessed the birth of Tylor Hamilton's unborn twin, the tears of the 'housewife's favorite' - Monsieur Virenque, the 'Lazarus-like' recovery of 'Floyd Landis' and now we have 'cowgate'.
I'd like to think I was a fair man, innocent until proven guilty and all that, but, there must be a better way of dealing with these cases. Why are they left to national bodies to sort out? – high profile cases like this should go straight to the UCI and then the Court of Arbitration for Sport because that is inevitably where they get resolved. Hopefully the ever hapless and seemingly toothless UCI will appeal against this judgement.
As for me, if Contador gets away with this excuse I think I might try EPO stuffed chicken or amphetamine fed spring lamb. By July I think I'll be doing sub 20 minute '10s' and no-one will be able to touch me - I will of course be eating only the best 'organically' reared Spanish meat.
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Well put... Very well put. Chapeau.
The UCI ? More like WWE.0 -
its a bit like graham swans defence for drink driving of the vail may have been shook & therefore give a different alcohol reading :?0
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Thanks for the comment Pete. The UCI have said today that they want the case sorting by the TdF. Lets hope a lot sooner.
One thing though, and I am sure I am being quite dim but what does WWE stand for?0 -
With so many doping stories in pro cycling now it's difficult not to wonder who isn't up to something. I'd be interested to see how the system works. A sample before and after the race from the winners of any stage and random selection from the rest of the field I assume?I ride a bike. Doesn't make me green or a tree hugger. I drive a car too.0
