Road Bike Racing - Another rider sacked...

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French cyclist Jimmy Casper has been provisionally suspended from his team, Agritubel, following positive doping tests taken while he was riding in last month's Tour de France. (http://velonews.com/article/81525/agritubel-suspends-casper)

now people can shut up about the french not being tested

Dude is innocent, somebody must have put something in his drink or chamois cream.

now people can shut up about the french not being tested

True, but now the French can also shut up about stopping doping after Festina (and that being the reason why they haven't won the TDF in eons).

In the end, it's all good -- this is good for the sport. But it feels as if we're in the middle of a holocaust or something. How can cycling get smaller? Money-wise it's right at the bottom. Ah well. Ah well.

I'm not sure this is. It doesn't look like a clear cut rider cheating case. It looks more like a clerical error on the part of his docs, putting the wrong asthma medicine on his TUE. Oops.

I've never seen so many asthmatics in all my life. Every time I hear that an athlete is asthmatic, I feel like I'm supposed to wink back.

I've never seen so many asthmatics in all my life. Every time I hear that an athlete is asthmatic, I feel like I'm supposed to wink back.

Exercise induced asthma.

Whatever his reasons for the positive, there ain't no denyin' this dude is one tough s.o.b. I'd like to see anyone here ride the TDF in one of these: