Comments on: Tour de France ’07 – Back From the Dead Again

By: Cyclocosm - Pro Cycling Blog » Twitter Dropping Knowledge on Cycling

Cyclocosm - Pro Cycling Blog » Twitter Dropping Knowledge on Cycling — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 12:10:36 +0000

[...] yesterday? I know at least one Twitterer did, though they didn’t go the extra mile to say exactly what this might mean. More interesting, perhaps, was the race behind, in which Alberto Contador politely escorted Levi [...]

By: Cyclocosm - Pro Cycling Blog » I’m Back!

Cyclocosm - Pro Cycling Blog » I’m Back! — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:33:05 +0000

[...] getting ahead of myself. There’s a whole season to rip on the overhyped, call out the under-criticized, and remind the rest of you what simple-minded, Lance-slobbering, marketing-addled Freds you all [...]

By: GeWilli

GeWilli — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 18:51:32 +0000

Of course everyone’s seen this already, right?

http://www.ibelievevino.com/

;-)

By: SPEEDTHRILLS

SPEEDTHRILLS — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 18:44:17 +0000

They just reported on TF1 evening news that French police have sealed off the Astana hotel and searching it for evidence. Let’s see if after today’s events the TdF management continues to let Chicken Man stay in the race with the clouds over his head. You just know how bad Prudhomme wants him gone. Despite the legal risks of doing so, I bet he will pull the trigger on The Chicken soon. We’ll see…..

By: Glenn

Glenn — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 18:23:46 +0000

What an idiot Vino was. If you’re gonna transfuse, use your own blood maybe?!?! Dr. Michele Ferrari will obviously take a black eye for this but I don’t think Ferrari is to blame, because he would at least have had the sense to have Vino transfuse with his own blood, since that is much harder to detect.

Also, I don’t think that Vino’s win in the mountains yesterday was due to doping. He had lost so much time the day before that he was naturally more well rested than the other GC contenders. In fact, I think he may have sand bagged it the day before so that (a) he would be more well rested than the other top climbers, and (b) so that the other GC riders would not be concerned about him getting into breaks.

By: Murat

Murat — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:30:29 +0000

A pity that perhaps the only thing preventing a decline in popularity of our sport, is the doping news.. Uncertainty and suspense have a street value, they sell. Ask Versus if they mind that doping is being reported. Vino has always been a class act. I am at least hopeful that if the allegations are true, that he owns up to it immediately and takes the consequences like a man.

By: rachel

rachel — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:16:26 +0000

thank you for preparing me for the Vino news. although I dismissed your post when I first read it because of my blind love for Vino, it did plant the thought in my mind that helped me deal with the shock when the news came. wow.

By: Derek

Derek — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:07:18 +0000

Yeah, you called it. I just saw the news. Shit. I loved Vino’. Let’s call the whole thing off and just go back to riding our bikes. Shit.

By: dan

dan — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:04:47 +0000

what the f was he thinking? the irony is that cycling is probably one of the cleanest sport yet because it work hard to out the cheats it get a bad rep. wonder if sport like baseball,football,basketball had as stringent a testing method as cycling if we would have not seen more positive case

By: jim

jim — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:02:55 +0000

Maybe Cosmo was playing coy and somehow heard about it early?