Comments on: I Have Doper Mind Control, Bruseghin wins Giro HTT

By: Zach

Zach — Tue, 29 May 2007 15:07:20 +0000

Is it, in fact, impossible to prove a negative? The logical conundrum involved makes it difficult to stand behind an unproven accusation of guilt. An innocent athlete would have a great deal of difficulty proving their innocence against unfounded accusation.

Leaving that aside, the frequency with which athletes who have been (plausibly) accused of doping, have subesquently actually been PROVEN to have been doping, leads me to my own rule#1 about dopers.

Rule #1 about dopers: If a guy has been accused of doping, then he’s almost certain to have been doping.

It’s a useful tool for avoiding the crushing disappointment that follows when a personal hero turns out to be a cheater. I’m with Cosmo on Lance. The guy stinks.

By: cosmo

cosmo — Mon, 28 May 2007 22:03:08 +0000

Lance Armstrong because many, many people have leveled allegations against him that are nearly identical to those d’Hondt made against T-Mobile in his book.

Kloden’s results are all over the place. He virtually disappeared after the 2000 Olympics, only to reemerge as a Tour contender in 2004.

By: fork bum

fork bum — Mon, 28 May 2007 05:44:12 +0000

Lance-f***ing-Armstrong because he was always in front?
Kloden for his “roller-coaster results”?

“I am sorry, but since this substance you refer to as ‘pizza’ does not naturally occur in the human body at the 16-cell zygote stage it is considered a banned substance.”

By: Davide

Davide — Fri, 25 May 2007 23:16:01 +0000

The reason why Armstrong is highly unlikely to ever confess to doping?

He still makes far too much money from his TdF wins, that’s why.

All the current confessors, including Riis, are hardly raking in the kind of cash that LA can command right now via endorsements and public speaking.

Riis is hardly going to fire himself from his own cycling team.

Bill Stapleton has already come out and said that he would offer Zabel a place on the T-Mobile roster should Milram poor cold milk over his contract (see what I did there?!) so Zabel is ok.

The jobs of Brian Holm and Ralf Aldag are apparently safe at T-Mobile.

Looks like Udo Bolts is the only casualty (so far) in all of this and he left his part time role on his own accord anyway (if you believe what you read).

By: vanni

vanni — Fri, 25 May 2007 23:10:14 +0000

… not even the riding shorts are clean! much less the riders. as 4 LA … 7 times … gee wonder how

By: jim

jim — Fri, 25 May 2007 21:31:25 +0000

Root for the laundry.

By: Kurt Lewis

Kurt Lewis — Fri, 25 May 2007 18:04:39 +0000

A confession would be great, but let’s face it, thats NEVER going to happen. I was one of the few, the proud, the probably duped, who steadfastly clung to the claim that Hamilton didn’t do anything, and now I’m beginning my own serious disbelief in the peloton as a whole. I love cycling, but I’m starting to wonder how much of cycling is becoming like Formula One. The driver is important, but its almost equally a battle of engineers and aerodynamicists. Cyclist are still the driver and the engine, but how much tuning is the engine getting. There is a saying in NASCAR: “If you aren’t cheating, you aren’t trying.” Is that going to be the sentiment of cycling since 1990? With the treatment of disease becoming more and more chemical (thank God!), pharmaceutical companies will always be generating things that will keep athletes ahead of the controllers, so what do we do?