Month: July 2006

You may have thought, with so many favoites under dope suspensions, and with Jimmy Casper winning Stage 1, that this was going to be an utterly out-of-the-ordinary Tour de France. Well, wrong you are. Stages 2-4 contained Robbie McEwen stage wins 9 and 10, a late flyer for victory, a GC contender crashing out, the…

It was an ugly sprint won beautifully by Cofidis’ Jimmy Casper. Globs of riders bounced all across the road as Milram’s Erik Zabel (500m) and Quick.Step’s Tom Boonen (300m) found themselves unexpectedly out in the wind. The crafty German reintegrated between Davitamon’s Robbie McEwen and Liquigas’ Magnus Backsteadt, but the Flandrian tried get fancy, peeping…

So we’re still waiting on that evidence. Here’s (scroll down) what we’ve got so far, and (in America, at least) it couldn’t convict a sex addict in a cathouse. Thankfully, the entire world hasn’t gone mad; Tyler Hamilton’s lawyer also thinks that having nothing more than paté on pressboard to back up these suspensions is…