Originally Posted by ed073
Geelong Botanical Gardens, I think.
A super talent.
91.3 VO2
Rabocop espoirs

... and Sutherland came out of there. The management should know what was going on with their riders. That might have been the birdie source, not the elder Rory, just saying
On the rumours thing, does anyone believe CSC's "values" propoganda. Team building, commando trainers, new age witch doctors, transvestite yoga teachers, and dog pilates?
Can they create results out of thin air. Sure Julich had talent, you don't come third in the tour without talent, even if it was 1998, and everyone had big pharma coming out their gills.
I know "Mr 60%" is an apocryphal Chinese whispers epithet, but there was not many who were not in the upper echelons then who would not have been getting a little love from the ampoule of EPO. So, it is entirely disingenuous to spout values for all his success.