Professional Cycling - I dont get it!

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Dwayne1
07-17-08, 07:19 PM
Maybe I'm just nieve(sp) Maybe I just dont get it, I dont know, well I dont know anymore. Ok so two riders who have no chance of ever winning a stage test posative, ok I can handle that, but when Ricco tests posative I have to ask my self, do I really want to be apart of this?!! I love this race so much!! And have watched it and read about it since Eddy Merx(sp) and Big Mig and yes Greg, and on to Lance, I'm a cyclist I ride everywhere I've never owened a car!! I hear about this and My heart sinks it rips me apart!!
I fear that there is a posability that if this continues there will be no more Tour De France! How do we stop it!!!
Dwayne

JoelS
07-17-08, 07:29 PM
Write letters to the team sponsors and tell them to stop funding the team until they set up a program to make sure the cyclists are clean. And that you won't be buying any of their products until they do.

I think the pressure from this has to come from the folks that write the teams their checks.
Laggard
07-17-08, 07:30 PM
Don't sweat it. Merckx tested positive twice also.

Ames
07-17-08, 07:36 PM
Bob said something similar on VERSUS and I tend to agree to a point.

However I think bicycle racing especially the professional ranks is going thorough a major clean up after years of doping with nothing being done and it will be hard on all concerned for a while. At least they are taking a pro-active "this is the end" approach instead of just giving it lip service like baseball, football and other professional sports. Bad thing is weight lifting is worse and they are trying wo ignor it.