Karleta Reierson

You should read Landis's book. It's so good.

>From: "Mark Jenkins"
>To: "Erik Voldengen"
>CC: obra@list.obra.org
>Subject: Re: [OBRA Chat] vino = cheater
>Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 10:56:26 -0700
>
>It's pretty clear that the amount of self-righteousness and hand wringing
>among the Tour organizers at ASO is inversely proportional to the
>credibility of the race.
>
>Does it seem to anyone else that ASO in recent months has backed off of
>Armstrong? Could it be that in the wake of the Riis confession that they
>were faced with the possibility that if Armstrong cheated -- as they
>believed -- they would have no clean winners back to 1996? Riis, Ullrich,
>Pantani, Armstrong, Landis. All of a sudden they very badly need Lance
>Armstrong to be clean.
>
>If they had been successful in bringing Armstrong down, that would have
>made
>the Tour officially the least credible race on anyone's calendar, and
>possibly the least credible major event in sports . So instead, they're all
>over taking Riis's yellow jersey (pathetic) and squabbling with UCI
>(absurd).
>
>How can it be otherwise? The sport has a problem, and this is the highest
>stakes race in that problem sport for everyone involved -- sponsors,
>riders,
>teams. And on top of everything else, the race itself is brutal. Now you
>have UCI and ASO saying publicly they hope Rasmussen doesn't win. What a
>disaster.
>
>On 7/24/07, Erik Voldengen wrote:
>>
>>On 7/24/07, Malcolm, Gary wrote:
>> >
>> > Then four sketchy Rasmussen training disappearances make the press, My
>> > beloved Vino mixes up blood bags (don't they label those things?), and
>>now
>> > I'm thinking, "Why is Contador SOOOO much better than anyone else?"
>> >
>>
>>I think it was only two missed checks, and UCI and Dutch Federation were
>>using the same database? Four warnings, but only two offenses. It takes
>>three to get suspended. Not that I think he's squeaky clean or anything,
>>I'm just sayin...
>>
>>Regarding Contador, how quickly we forget who he was riding for last year
>>(hint - Spanish guy caught with a briefcase full of money and some frozen
>>bags of blood). Not that I think he's dirty or anything, I'm just
>>saying...
>>
>>
>>-Erik
>>
>>
>>
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