Karsten Hagen
Pound is actually leaving this year, isn't he? Either way, doping has been a part of euro-pro cycling for decades. Didn't Anquetil admit to rampant amphetamine use? (the Anquetil cocktail) and of course, Tom Simpson, etc.
It's almost as if, like politics, a sport can rise to a level of corruption and collapse under its own weight.
The bright spot here is that we have plenty of great local racing to focus on. Why get up at 5am to watch a bunch of dopers as they call their team cars on their radios (another stupid nuisance) and ride bikes nobody can really afford in a race that's 5,000 miles away?
Go watch the Courthouse Crit instead! Hell, even PIR is pretty dramatic.
Karsten> Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 08:16:01 -0700> From: joec@aracnet.com> To: martinbaker67@comcast.net> CC: obra@list.obra.org; ermartini77@hotmail.com> Subject: Re: [OBRA Chat] next year's tour> > The minute they put dick Pound-sand in power is the moment that the first part failed. Sack Pound and replace WADA with a better run organization and labs with a clearer and more defined process and (may) begin to clean up the sport. Until then, it is all just fluff and fancy...> > Joe> > Martin Baker wrote:> > > Nice. Tell that to our young and talented juniors - that if they dream of> > competing at that level, they'll have to pump their bodies full of drugs and> > other people's blood (and risk their lives and health) to do it.> > > > The only solution is strict testing with draconian penalties. But the flip> > side is that the current system run by Dick Pound and WADA is greatly> > lacking in integrity, transparency, fairness, and due process. The first> > part is doomed to fail without the second part. > > > > -----Original Message-----> > From: obra-bounces@list.obra.org [mailto:obra-bounces@list.obra.org] On> > Behalf Of Emily> > Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 10:16 PM> > To: obra@list.obra.org> > Subject: [OBRA Chat] next year's tour> > > > let's make it a free for all-legalize all drugs, no tests, survival of the> > fittest. let them die young and fast-population control of a new kind. no> > strings attached, almost like a cage fight of cycling. a chance to get it> > out of your system-like letting NASCAR remove all govenor restrictors-and> > taking no responsibilities for the consquences.> > _______________________________________________> > OBRA mailing list> > obra@list.obra.org> > http://list.obra.org/mailman/listinfo/obra> > Unsubscribe: obra-unsubscribe@list.obra.org> > > > > > _______________________________________________> > OBRA mailing list> > obra@list.obra.org> > http://list.obra.org/mailman/listinfo/obra> > Unsubscribe: obra-unsubscribe@list.obra.org> > _______________________________________________> OBRA mailing list> obra@list.obra.org> http://list.obra.org/mailman/listinfo/obra> Unsubscribe: obra-unsubscribe@list.obra.org
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