Comments on: Tour de France ‘07 – No Rest Day for Dopers

By: dailytri

dailytri — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 13:48:14 +0000

I hope you’re right. In the grand scheme of sport, it may not seem like much, but to cycling fans this has been a really depressing two week stretch. Other thoughts noted here: http://dailytri.wordpress.com/2007/07/24/sports-very-own-black-tuesday/

By: C4

C4 — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 13:14:29 +0000

The worst part is if Vino had actually toughed out the tour after his crash, even if he didn’t finish in the top, it would have been an amazing ride. I’m sure he went through a crazy amount of pain but who cares when all his amazing rides were on the back of his special “spinach” and not guts.

By: elvisgoat

elvisgoat — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 02:35:39 +0000

good call on the vino roller coaster

By: Mash

Mash — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 01:58:50 +0000

What a sport. What shall be done? If the drug testing infrastructure can be built upon trusted checks and balances, then perhaps the penalty for a rider failing a drug test is a lifetime ban. Facing that, who’d risk it?

Now… Lance comes back in ‘08 to exorcise cycling. Think the Frogs would kneel down for that?

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 01:02:54 +0000

Hah, my first reaction when Vino won that stage after getting completely wrecked was “allright Vinofloyd”… looks like I was right

By: mnut

mnut — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 23:45:03 +0000

The French Health and Sports minister is reported as saying that there’s a possibility of more positive dope tests.
http://sports.yahoo.com/sc/news?slug=reu-dopingbachelot&prov=reuters&type=lgns

I’m curious if this is based on known information. It seems like a rather odd quote.

I think it would be great if the fans staged a protest on summit of the Col de Marie-Blanque. Bar the riders from passing for an hour.

By: josh

josh — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 21:28:11 +0000

oops, somehow missed that is was on your post.

i dont really see how they could twist it into being lax on doping, but maybe im not imaginative enough…

By: cosmo

cosmo — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 19:58:06 +0000

It’s in my post, under the “pursued fairly” link. But yeah, it is too bad that the story will get overlooked.

Or worse, Petacchi’s being cleared will be warped into evidence that the sport is still too lax on dopers.

By: josh

josh — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 19:53:21 +0000

so im gonna guess this gets largely overlooked today:

http://www.velonews.com/news/fea/12909.0.html