Max Van Heeswijk

afx237vi

Apparently did an interview with a Dutch journalist, admitted using EPO while at US Postal / Discovery, then had a change of mind and stole the recording and threatened to set a rottweiler on the journo :!:

The journalist has filed a police report.

http://translate.google.com/translate?j ... swijk.html

(Via @TheRaceRadio)

moray_gub

afx237vi wrote:

Apparently did an interview with a Dutch journalist, admitted using EPO while at US Postal / Discovery, then had a change of mind and stole the recording and threatened to set a rottweiler on the journo :!:

The journalist has filed a police report.

http://translate.google.com/translate?j ... swijk.html

(Via @TheRaceRadio)

"This Boers broke off the conversation and asked him to the Van Heeswijk rottweiler to lead the way out."

So let me get this right he asked the rottweiller to lead him out ?

shinyhelmut

"This Boers broke off the conversation and asked him to the Van Heeswijk rottweiler to lead the way out."

So let me get this right he asked the rottweiller to lead him out ?

Don't you love Google translate?

AndyRubio

The story must be false - whoever heard of a rider on Lance Armstrong's team doping? It beggars belief.

shinyhelmut

Max wrote:

"It's just tabloid journalism. I've always been a clean rider there was no talk of doping," he said on the Dutch channel L1. "I will definitely take a lawyer."

I wonder who he's been getting his advice from?

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/dutch-magazine-spats-with-van-heeswijk-over-doping-allegations

No_Ta_Doctor

Just when I thought the Armstrong stuff had reached the nadir of farce along comes van Heeswijk and his sitcom stylings....

dave_1

AndyRubio wrote:

The story must be false - whoever heard of a rider on Lance Armstrong's team doping? It beggars belief.

but you could have said "whoever heard of a rider in that era not doping"..

afx237vi

Dave_1 wrote:

AndyRubio wrote:

The story must be false - whoever heard of a rider on Lance Armstrong's team doping? It beggars belief.

but you could have said "whoever heard of a rider in that era not doping"..

It's funny how "that era" slowly moves further and further forward as time passes. I remember when "that era" was pre-Festina... now it's 2006.

sherer

has anyone actually read the article yet ?

Does he admit he was one rider using EPO or does he admit this was team wide doping and he wsa part of that ?

RichN95.

No tA Doctor wrote:

Just when I thought the Armstrong stuff had reached the nadir of farce along comes van Heeswijk and his sitcom stylings....

It's like a Carry On film

Carry On Doping

starring:
Sid James as Johan Bruyneel
Kenneth Wiiliams as Lance Armstrong
Bernard Bresslaw as Viatcheslav Ekimov
Jim Dale as Floyd Landis
Charles Hawtrey as Michele Ferrari
Hattie Jacques as Jan Ullrich

rick_chasey

sherer wrote:

has anyone actually read the article yet ?

Does he admit he was one rider using EPO or does he admit this was team wide doping and he wsa part of that ?

Yeah.

He has an interview, Hamilton style, about his time at US Postal and Discovery, about what Armstrong's like, what Landis was like, the team doping practices and doping in the peloton.

Afterwards, at the end of the interview he asks if they can miss out the doping stuff. The journo says no, so he steals the tape/ throws it away, and after some "give it to me!" gets his rotwiller out.

There's some journo chat about publicising it after the Tour, in fairness to him and Max says "fine, you can tell the story" < but since he's still got the tape, the story is not what he said, but what he did during the interview.

Tusher

You couldn't make it up.

But we shouldn't come to any judgement until we hear the dog's version of events.

jerry3571

I never had a problem with Max Van Hes' (etc) on my Procycling Manager Game. He seemed to go better in the game than real life; as his Manager I promise I didn't dope him :twisted:

-Jerry