Cancellara to miss Worlds

[mondobongo]

Cancellara will not be taking part in the World Championship TT, stating 'I lack the force'. Story here.

Leaves the door wide open for ????

Could Team GB do it???

 

[Keith Oates]

Millar sees it as being an opportunity for him to get the title, I for one would be pleased if he does!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[mondobongo]

Would be brilliant if he could do it.

 

[Tetedelacourse]

I thought that thread title would reveal a celebrity gender re-assignment or at the very least a cross-dressing beauty contest.

 

[HLaB]

Millar sees it as being an opportunity for him to get the title, I for one would be pleased if he does!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'd be delighted if he could but has Millar actually won anything since he became drug free ?

 

[Chuffy]

I'd be delighted if he could but has Millar actually won anything since he became drug free ?

A TT stage in the Vuelta (last year?) and a team TT stage in the Giro this year. Narrowly missed out on a stage win in this years Giro when his chain snapped just before the sprint.
Anything else?

 

[rich p]

A TT stage in the Vuelta (last year?) and a team TT stage in the Giro this year. Narrowly missed out on a stage win in this years Giro when his chain snapped just before the sprint.
Anything else?

2006 at the Vuelta and a TTT in this years Giro.

 

[yello]

Yes, but apart from that, what has David Millar ever....

I'd like to see Fabian Canellera in the Miss Worlds... I'm sure he can save starving Ethopians with the best of bimbos!

 

[Dayvo]

I'd like to see Fabian Canellera in the Miss Worlds... I'm sure he can save starving Ethopians with the best of bimbos!

That's how I read it at first!

I don't get it!

Lance Armstrong was world champion, won plenty, including 7 consecutive TdeF and never failed a doping test.
David Millar didn't win much (stage wins in TdeF and Vuelta - admittedly no mean feat), doped/cheated and owned up eventually.
He came back and everyone seems to have forgotten he was a cheat!
Is it partisanship/patriotism or what?

 

[yello]

I don't think it's a matter of forgetting his past but of acknowledging his clean achievements since then.

 

[Dayvo]

So what of Tyler Hamilton and co? We're not so lenient with them!

 

[rich p]

Isn't it because they never admitted guilt?

 

[yello]

I can only speak for myself. I acknowledge Tyler Hamilton's results since the end of his ban...

 

[Dayvo]

Once a cheat . . . !