Professional Cycling - Rasmussen Out!!!

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I just saw it. I was stunned!

Maybe Morrow has a chance yet.

Whoa! Thats a bummer to hear that. The tour is going to end with a lot less riders than it started with...

There must be more to the story than a couple of missed filings.

He shouldn't have lied to his team about where he was when he missed those doping tests.

Maybe if they get rid of all the tour riders, I might have a chance of participating in it :D

OMG...this has just gotten so unbelievably out of hand...I'm just floored. One one hand, this is exactly the kind of "weeding" out that racing needs, but on the other hand....come on! I mean it just seems like there is no end in sight. And one other question...if the national team dropped him four days ago (!), why did it take so long for Rabobank to lose him?

the chicken is cooked

I swear when I saw Rasmussen take off away from Contador and Levi at the end this morning, I told myself that later today we'd find out he was doping.

Sucks.

More than that has happened, too. Along with Astana (Vino++), the entire Cofidis team (Moreni++), and reportedly the entire Rabobank team (Chicken??), is gone!

This is bigger than huge, it's earthshaking! Props to the Tour organizers! Way to get serious! I can't wait for coverage tomorrow morning (evening show is likely pre-recorded).

wow, i am absolutely floored. i have been rooting against him for much of the race, mainly because Contador is not only fantastic, but also was born on my exact birthday, day month year. but i was all ready to give the chicken a congrats, and cheer his win. wow

now, prepare for a parade of uneducated idiots to start attacking cycling in the media.

now, prepare for a parade of uneducated idiots to start attacking cycling in the media.

Clearly he was steroids! :p

http://velonews.com/tour2007/details/articles/12944.0.html

How many threads on this do we need to have???

Whoa! Thats a bummer to hear that. The tour is going to end with a lot less riders than it started with...

Doesn't that kinda always happen? :p

More than that has happened, too. Along with Astana (Vino++), the entire Cofidis team (Moreni++), and reportedly the entire Rabobank team (Chicken??), is gone!

This is bigger than huge, it's earthshaking! Props to the Tour organizers! Way to get serious! I can't wait for coverage tomorrow morning (evening show is likely pre-recorded).

I guess the sliver lining is that they are doing something about doping. It sucks to have all the people you were rooting for kicked out for it, as it seems like we were let down in a way.

Some have said that this might open up the floodgates for the general media to rail against pro cycling (more so than the fans.) The only thing I can say to that is that there is something being actively done about the situation, regardless of the monetary stakes. American baseball and football... those organizations most assuredly have doping problems, and much talk is made of erradicating it, but in truth very little is probably done because it would hurt their respective leagues too much to take any real action.

Rabobank team is not gone.

How many threads on this do we need to have???

I'm not sure, but more is always better....right? or is that less is more. I can never remember.

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You should blow away the 327 other threads that everyone else started on this subject, since you are a moderator...and moderator's always get senority on multiple threads on the same subject...
:D

I think the "doping troll" Blaireau started about 267 of them. And PM'd everyone on the board about it.

How many threads on this do we need to have???

327.

I think the "doping troll" Blaireau started about 267 of them. And PM'd everyone on the board about it.

Incorrect. Actually, let me correct myself, the above is not incorrect, its just an out and out lie. I guess Simona is letting anger get the better of him....:rolleyes:

Incorrect. Actually, let me correct myself, the above is not incorrect, its just an out and out lie. I guess Simona is letting anger get the better of him....:rolleyes:

It's Simoni..and I'm not angry. I am :roflmao: at you. Because you are the board simpleton.

And you are PM'ing people. Like botto. And you've done it to me and I shut mine off so you would stop stalking.

Heard there was a big arguement between the TdF officials and the UCI over UCI's lack of enforcement of it's own rules and the failure to notify the race organizers of any violations or missed drug tests. It would have prevented Michael Rasmussen from even entering the TdF.


Article 220 of the UCI's anti-doping rules says: "In case of a recorded warning or a missed test in a period of 45 days before the start of a major Tour, the rider is not allowed to participate in that Tour." The major tours are of France, Italy and Spain.

But who knows, it could all be politics at this late stage and everybody involved is trying to save face and shift blame.

Heard there was a big arguement between the TdF officials and the UCI over UCI's lack of enforcement of it's own rules and the failure to notify the race organizers of any violations or missed drug tests. It would have prevented Michael Rasmussen from even entering the TdF.



But who knows, it could all be politics at this late stage and everybody involved is trying to save face and shift blame.

The release of Sinkewitz's results a month later during the Tour for example..

The Mail on Sunday (English paper) said Astana was the last team to sign the Tour's anti-drugs pledge. I know Rabobank held out as long as they could to - where they the last two?