Lampre Indictments.

Inner Ring reporting about the possible indictments for the Mantova Doping case - Team Managers, Cunego, Ballan. Also an Omega pharma team doctor...full list of names here http://sport.repubblica.it/news/sport/ciclismo-doping-inchiesta-mantova-pm-chiede-rinvio-a-giudizio-per-32/4138817
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Strava is not Zen.
Will Ballan start the Ronde and will Cunego start the tour of the basque country for example?
the little prince of dope?
Last time this flared up BMC quietly withdraw Ballan from all races.
Preliminary hearing set for 30 Apr - and CONI have been added as a civil party so will get access to all the papers. Could mean that CONI slap on santions without having to continually wait for the ever-slow-turning-wheels of Italian judicial system.
Lots of the 31 current and ex-Lampre people wont be happy about this. Perhaps thats why Santambrogio went on a charge yesterday...
And 30th - just 5 days before the Giro starts...
I see Ponzi is one of those involved. Who would have suspected he would be involved in some dodgy scheme?
True, but CONI now getting the papers is interesting...
EDIT: I always cling on to the fact that CONI were determined to nail Valverde - did so thanks to some cunning tactics
He's even named after a famous fraudster!
- @ddraver
He's got a point, albeit through rose tinted glasses.
I always listen to the Cycling Podcast but get fed up with their entrenched fence-sitting (?!) - and now that they’ve got sponsors and a Brand to flog, they’re going to be even less opinionated. Kimmage may be a shouty twit, but at least there are still a few soup-spitters like him knocking about to break up the monotony [Talking of monotonous, what chance will Fotheringham have of ghosting another rider’s “autobiography” now he’s stuck the boot in with Wiggo - or did he figure it wouldn’t get better than that in his career?].
How ironic that, at the moment, the only “grit” seems to be provided by an outfit like Sky and their attempts at slick system gaming...
After Mark E Smith’s death a couple of weeks ago, there was an outpouring of love for him - generally, people were celebrating what a difficult and cantankerous [email protected] he was. You miss it when it’s gone...
A great (if a little biased read).
I like the perspective he put on the BC "bullying" thing. Its a sport for alpha winning types. Others get spat out.
Although it has reminded me that we no longer have any top Italian teams, which is depressing.