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CyclingBantam
CyclingBantam Posts: 1,299
edited July 2011 in Pro race
Quickstep bus seized. Surely even if they were doping they wouldnt have been stupid enough to just pack it on the bus?!

http://www.ouest-france.fr/ofdernmin_-Tour-de-France.-Le-bus-de-la-Quick-Step-saisi-a-Challans_6346-1857131-fils-tous_filDMA.Htm

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  • cogidubnus
    cogidubnus Posts: 860
    Well if they are stupid enough to dope who knows where the stupidity could end..
  • pb21
    pb21 Posts: 2,171
    Wasn't there a news release saying that buses etc were going to be searched?!
    Mañana
  • Doobz
    Doobz Posts: 2,800
    I reckon with a couple of thousand euro's you could make a "secret" compartment/fridge in the bus somewhere..

    Would be completely nuts if they did find something and the whole team was kicked off the tour...
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  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    Related to the Wim Vansevenant bust earlier this week
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • claudb
    claudb Posts: 212
    I bet they've got something hidden under the floor of the bus. Those "Click-Fitting" floor boards are easy to lift and lay again !!!!
  • Cumulonimbus
    Cumulonimbus Posts: 1,730
    iainf72 wrote:
    Related to the Wim Vansevenant bust earlier this week

    Surely anyone involved with that will know there is a chance that the authorities know who else was involved with vansevenant and be being very careful?
  • CyclingBantam
    CyclingBantam Posts: 1,299
    Before we get carried away, they haven't actually done anything wrong yet, it is simply a suspicion. Maybe they just didn't have an insurance disk...
  • 58585
    58585 Posts: 207
    Who's were the team cars mentioned in the cyclingnews article? Can't find any reference to those searches.
  • Doobz
    Doobz Posts: 2,800
    I posted it yesterday.. sec' I'll find it
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  • Cumulonimbus
    Cumulonimbus Posts: 1,730
    edited July 2011
    58585 wrote:
    Who's were the team cars mentioned in the cyclingnews article? Can't find any reference to those searches.

    Lotto i think

    Edit: Actually maybe not specific to any team

    http://www.velonation.com/News/ID/8899/ ... ducts.aspx
  • Doobz
    Doobz Posts: 2,800
    58585 wrote:
    Who's were the team cars mentioned in the cyclingnews article? Can't find any reference to those searches.

    Seems like in France they are stopping and searching any team cars, trucks and vans hoping to find doping substances.

    http://www.hln.be/hln/nl/1295/Tour-De-F ... tart.dhtml
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  • Perhaps the Police are looking for cocaine and dubiously young girls?

    Andy
  • CyclingBantam
    CyclingBantam Posts: 1,299
    Is there any truth in the reports that Rick Chasey is currently staging a daring 'spring' from a Vandee police parking lot?
  • Doobz
    Doobz Posts: 2,800
    Quick Step got a tip off warning of a police raid according to gil simongil of L'Equipe / Vélo Magazine
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  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    Bus has been released, nothing found.

    Quick.step have been proven clean now :wink:
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • 58585
    58585 Posts: 207
    Do these guys have the power to stop-and-search during stages? :D
  • CyclingBantam
    CyclingBantam Posts: 1,299
    Excuse me Mr Contador, if you could just step off your bicycle for a second...
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    58585 wrote:
    Do these guys have the power to stop-and-search during stages? :D

    Remember they stopped johnny schleck and searched him during a stage.

    That said, all these searches are just PR. I bet they know the square root of f all
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • stokepa31
    stokepa31 Posts: 560
    when i win the euro tonight im going to buy myself a team and find out the truth behind the doping in pro cycling.

    i could call up riders and say "ive got lots of money and if you dont talk i will destroy you"

    i heard the saxo team bus had been impounded too

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  • 58585
    58585 Posts: 207
    I've got a vision: team hotel on the first rest day, new soigneur Donal MacIntyre begins his first massage of the day, talk quickly turns to the star riders preparation :shock:
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    iainf72 wrote:
    Bus has been released, nothing found.

    Quick.step have been proven clean now :wink:


    Heart was in my mouth when I read that they got searched...
  • tim000
    tim000 Posts: 718
    stokepa31 wrote:
    when i win the euro tonight im going to buy myself a team and find out the truth behind the doping in pro cycling.

    i could call up riders and say "ive got lots of money and if you dont talk i will destroy you"

    i heard the saxo team bus had been impounded too

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    surely that the old milram team bus.
  • AlunP
    AlunP Posts: 106
    They might have been checking for contaminated Spanish beef. It's banned you know.