Omega Pharma-Quick Step axe Leipheimer

Boy Lard
Boy Lard Posts: 445
edited October 2012 in Pro race
http://www.espn.co.uk/cycling/sport/story/175030.html#

Making some money available for an incoming rider?

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  • Brakeless
    Brakeless Posts: 865
    Boy Lard wrote:
    http://www.espn.co.uk/cycling/sport/story/175030.html#

    Making some money available for an incoming rider?

    Omerta Pharma Quickstep!
  • ContrelaMontre
    ContrelaMontre Posts: 3,027
    Omerta Pharma Quick Sack
    Rule No.10 // It never gets easier, you just go faster
  • Crankbrother
    Crankbrother Posts: 1,695
    That's that for Levi then ...

    Even his ties with Specialized won't do him any good as Saxo already have a leader who can't score World Tour points ... and loading the team with ex-dopers might find them missing an invite or two if they can't buy their way in to the top tier over the winter ...

    If only he hadn't waited for Bertie and help him chase down Rasmussen in '97 ... or cheated his way through the barren years ...
  • r0bh
    r0bh Posts: 2,383
    I'm waiting for the pages and pages of criticism for OPQS having this policy. Or is that just reserved for Sky?
  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    r0bh wrote:
    I'm waiting for the pages and pages of criticism for OPQS having this policy. Or is that just reserved for Sky?


    Not to mention that OPQS boot Leipheimer but still employ Doc Ibarguren Taus ...
  • arnuf
    arnuf Posts: 98
    r0bh wrote:
    I'm waiting for the pages and pages of criticism for OPQS having this policy. Or is that just reserved for Sky?
    It's not really policy, it's just an easy way to lose him. They only signed him to stay in the world tour.
  • r0bh
    r0bh Posts: 2,383
    arnuf wrote:
    r0bh wrote:
    I'm waiting for the pages and pages of criticism for OPQS having this policy. Or is that just reserved for Sky?
    It's not really policy, it's just an easy way to lose him. They only signed him to stay in the world tour.

    It must be policy insomuch as it must have been a clause in the rider contracts, otherwise they wouldn't have been able to get rid of him.
  • graeme_s-2
    graeme_s-2 Posts: 3,382
    r0bh wrote:
    It must be policy insomuch as it must have been a clause in the rider contracts, otherwise they wouldn't have been able to get rid of him.
    Could have been something really vague like "bringing the sport or team into disrepute".

    Am I right in thinking that riders don't score WT points in the season after a ban? If that's the case, aren't Garmin going to be in all kinds of trouble this time next year?
  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    Graeme_S wrote:
    r0bh wrote:
    It must be policy insomuch as it must have been a clause in the rider contracts, otherwise they wouldn't have been able to get rid of him.
    Could have been something really vague like "bringing the sport or team into disrepute".

    Am I right in thinking that riders don't score WT points in the season after a ban? If that's the case, aren't Garmin going to be in all kinds of trouble this time next year?


    Depends on length of ban e.g. 2 years=nil points on return initially. But 6 months? not so sure
  • Insideinfo
    Insideinfo Posts: 107
    Does anyone actually like Leipheimer?
  • TMR
    TMR Posts: 3,986
    Insideinfo wrote:
    Does anyone actually like Leipheimer?

    No. He's always come across as a moaning minnie to me.
  • andy_wrx
    andy_wrx Posts: 3,396
    The fallout from the United States Anti-Doping Agency's (USADA) report into the Lance Armstrong case claimed another victim on Tuesday as American Levi Leipheimer had his contract terminated by Omega Pharma-Quick Step.
    Levi a victim ?
    Hmmm...
  • Crankbrother
    Crankbrother Posts: 1,695
    Insideinfo wrote:
    Does anyone actually like Leipheimer?


    I do ... he can ride when he needs to ...

    He's not a victim though ... just made bad choices in races and in preparation ...

    What was he on during the Rabo/Gerolsteiner years though? He was sh!te ...
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    Travis has just said it's "classic omerta"
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    indeed....

    http://velonews.competitor.com/2012/10/ ... mer_261684


    hmmmm....:

    'Omega Pharma announced the termination of Leiphiemer’s contract on Tuesday. Team manager Patrick Lefevere said the team was alerted just one hour before Leipheimer admitted to doping last week. In the same statement, the team also said it “commended” Leipheimer for his “open cooperation” in the investigation but ultimately fired him.......

    ....Tygart said the Belgian team’s statement that it had only recently learned of Leipheimer’s past doping as part of his testimony to USADA was “absolutely not true,” adding that Leipheimer and a USADA attorney told the team months ago of the investigation, and of Leipheimer’s role.

    “To say they were unaware is inaccurate,” Tygart said.'
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    Crankbrother wrote:
    What was he on during the Rabo/Gerolsteiner years though? He was sh!te ...

    Nah, he was ok now and then

    http://www.cyclingbase.com/Levi-Leipheimer.html

    Compare to Barry. WTF did he bother with doping for?

    http://www.cyclingbase.com/Michael-Barry.html
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • Tom Butcher
    Tom Butcher Posts: 3,830
    Can't stand him as a rider plus on top he's a doper who has scored an effective non-ban by talking when he was already caught.
    it's a hard life if you don't weaken.
  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    iainf72 wrote:
    Crankbrother wrote:
    What was he on during the Rabo/Gerolsteiner years though? He was sh!te ...

    Nah, he was ok now and then

    http://www.cyclingbase.com/Levi-Leipheimer.html

    Compare to Barry. WTF did he bother with doping for?

    http://www.cyclingbase.com/Michael-Barry.html


    Unlike Bottle, Barry was never anything other than a domestique from the start. You could ask the same question of Livingstone, no?
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    First interview since the report came out

    http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20 ... 643/0/news
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.

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