Saxo keep licence

iainf72
iainf72 Posts: 15,784
edited April 2012 in Pro race
For this year

Which is probably the right decision.
Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.

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  • TMR
    TMR Posts: 3,986
    Good. I like Bjarne.

    I presume they'll struggle to keep hold of it for next Season though?
  • LeicesterLad
    LeicesterLad Posts: 3,908
    The Mad Rapper wrote:
    Good. I like Bjarne.

    I presume they'll struggle to keep hold of it for next Season though?

    Yep, even if Contador comes back and wins the Vuelta and every stage with it - His points won't count. Feel very sorry for the Saxo boys, aweful situation they have been landed in, and it must have been a horrible 8 weeks or so.
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  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,455
    If you swim with sharks be prepared to get bitten.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,661
    Good, I ve no love for them but they could nt possibly have just dropped them/promoted another team mid-season. Not least because no business would ever sponsor cycling ever again!
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
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  • LeicesterLad
    LeicesterLad Posts: 3,908
    andyp wrote:
    If you swim with sharks be prepared to get bitten.

    That's a pretty p*ss poor evaluation in my book. I think Saxo Bank have had a very tough time already and found themselves suffering at the hands of one single individual. Many other teams could easily find themselves in that boat. Thats like branding a man a rapist if his brother was one, and then sending him to prison.
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  • inkyfingers
    inkyfingers Posts: 4,400
    LeicesterLad wrote:
    andyp wrote:
    If you swim with sharks be prepared to get bitten.

    That's a pretty p*ss poor evaluation in my book. I think Saxo Bank have had a very tough time already and found themselves suffering at the hands of one single individual. Many other teams could easily find themselves in that boat. Thats like branding a man a rapist if his brother was one, and then sending him to prison.

    If you start dismissing any riders who have ever ridden in the same team as a convicted doper then before you know it you wouldn't have a peloton.
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  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,455
    LeicesterLad wrote:
    That's a pretty p*ss poor evaluation in my book. I think Saxo Bank have had a very tough time already and found themselves suffering at the hands of one single individual. Many other teams could easily find themselves in that boat. Thats like branding a man a rapist if his brother was one, and then sending him to prison.

    Is that individual Bjarne Riis?
  • sherer
    sherer Posts: 2,460
    this is the right decision. The doping offence was from 2 years ago anyway and it isn't the fault of all the other riders it took the UCI \ WADA so long to sort all of this out.

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