Good Article on Simeoni.
Unfortunately everyone wants to see him as the bad guy, and Lance as
the good guy. Sorry, There is no black and white here (at least IMHO).
I respect Simeoni for his standing up and saying that doping exists,
and his coping to his own doping.
I can't comment on the original Lance statement, I haven't read Le Monde
I'm not sure if I agree with the court case for libel (actually is it defamation
of character?).
It only gets more bizarre after this.
Lance chases down simeoni (who repeatedly stated he wanted to break to
make a statement, which from above article we can see he has done before).
Lance in a move seen as petty, mean etc. shut it down.
Eki aledgedly spits (blows snot?) on Simeoni (Eki is really out of line here if true).
Now the italian court wants to haul Lance in for sporting fraud, Violence and
intimidating a witness.
Someone help me here, coz I don't see any violence, Lance did say he'd destroy
Simeoni (in court?) but violence? again I don't see fraud (unless LA is proven to
have been doping) Intimidation? yeah in the peloton, not anywhere else.
So, here's my final take on this:
Simeoni is a whiner, Lance is a bully and the Italian prosecutor who
is gonna charge lance is an
Marty