The new improved Lance Armstrong discussion thread.*

[Crackle]

You do all realise that article is satirical, don't you?

(i.e. it's not actually true).

It read like a story but it didn't click until later. Shame really. He'd gone up in my estimation.

 

[User169]

There will be no announcements from the UCI until after the pubs have shut.

 

[ufkacbln]

One could point out that alcohol is on the banned list, so the alleged performance of Danny Boy would have been illegally enhanced

 

[johnr]

On a lighter note, did anyone else pick up the sarky aside in the commentary on the last stage of the ToB?
Discussing Kristian House's sun tan and his annual wintering in Austin, Texas, one of them noted, 'I suppose that makes him the most successful cyclist in Austin'.

I liked it.

 

[rich p]

Yes, I heard that and chuckled. The Irish guy was a breath of fresh air after Uncle Hugh.

 

[smutchin]

Good stuff, this:
http://www.cyclingnews.com/features/opinion-michael-ashenden-on-omerta-101

 

[johnr]

Yes, I heard that and chuckled. The Irish guy was a breath of fresh air after Uncle Hugh.

Agree. One of the questions ITV4 is going to have to address over the winter is how they address/report cycling in the post-Pharmstrong era. Liggett's a disgrace, his and Sherwen's double act was well past its sell-by date before his bribery allegations against USADA, hints and nods will no longer do. They have to work out a company approach to reporting which is adult.

By the by, any smoke signals coming out of the UCI-fest in Holland? Or is the hot debate still Roche's silly 'zipped up jerseys rule' and whose turn it is to sign the expenses forms.

 

[Flying_Monkey]

Good stuff, this:
http://www.cyclingnews.com/features/opinion-michael-ashenden-on-omerta-101

Just read that - an excellent piece by someone who no one here can deny knows more than almost anyone else about doping in cycling.

 

[rich p]

Just read that - an excellent piece by someone who no one here can deny knows more than almost anyone else about doping in cycling.

I read it too and he's very good as per usual. He really should be working with the UCI to help clear the mess up but...

I recall reading a piece some months ago where he admitted how much he'd learnt about the mechanics of the epo/micr-dosing methods from Landis which maybe illustrates that the rider's doctors are better than the testers as Tyler H said.

 

[raindog]

An open letter to Pat McQuaid
http://forum.cyclingnews.com/showthread.php?t=18601

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Have USADA sent the evidence to UCI by surface mail or what? An example of the establishment at its finest, at this rate the protagonists will have retired or died before the issues are resolved and the evidence is made public.

 

[BJH]

100 pages anyone?

 

[david k]

there are many things on the banned list you would be surprised at, well im referring to the banned list i was given when i signed a professional contract as a rugby player some years ago, caffeine was one that jumped out at me, also the advice to avoid day nurse!!!!!!!!!!!!1

 

[Buddfox]

I think you have to drink a lot of coffee before you breach the caffeine limit, I think it's something like 8 espressos?

 

[raindog]

I think you have to drink a lot of coffee before you breach the caffeine limit, I think it's something like 8 espressos?

Surely any Italian could do that with ease. Ever seen the way they slam 'em back over there?