Forgive me but I'm missing something -

Lebleup - what Boonen has done has nothing to do with "the sport" - the sport is actively fixing things and is kilometers ahead of any other sport in the world in that regard, especially all of the US based associations (each and every one of them, excluding maybe the professional bowlers association and NASCAR).

Jaxgtr - what would you expect from the UCI???? Petacchi used a performance enhancing drug without the proper exceptions during competition. How does that in any way equate to Boonen being a party boy who has got to clean up his act?


Seriously folks - if you want to gripe about these guys not being roll models shift the focus and blame onto MLB, the NBA and the NFL. These guys live in fairly modest homes, don't make the kind of money that a ball player makes as the union imposed minimum and they have to spend 5 hours a day most of the year riding a bike (that part I'd love) in pissing down rain (that part I sort of don't love).

Detrub is right - focus on the sport. Boonen wasn't nabbed by ANYONE in the sport - he got pinched by the Belgian police who were investigating his relations with a Cyclo rider who fingered him as "his dealer".