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Interview with Manolo Sáiz

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  1. http://www.todociclismo.com/noticia.asp?id=30851

    In Spanish, but here are some interesting bits:

    He almost left cycling in December over the Heras incident..."I was closer to leaving than continuing". A card from his riders convinced him to stay on.

    "We are not to be a social example of zero tolerance" "(doping in cycling) is nothing more than a mirror of society in general.'

    "Vino can win the Tour, Liberty will be working for him exclusively and he's never had that before. He's the weakest of the three principal contenders in a head-to-head, but sometimes the Tour isn't a head-to-head"

    The next Tour winner will win one or two and then a new dominant rider will win a whole bunch."

    The Tour loses without Armstrong, I would have liked to see him leave after being beaten in the race, the way Indurain was beaten by Riis in 1996.

    (lots of LIBERTIES taken with the translation but true to the meanings)

  2. Saiz used the drugs in civil society analogy to justify his withdrawal of ONCE from the 1998 TDF.
    He said that the riders were being persecuted!
    Slight over-reaction at the time and given what has transpired since, Saiz
    statement has been made to look ridiculous.

    Saiz has always had an ambivalent attitude toward doping.

    Interesting comments about Vino and Liberty.
    Going on past tactics if Saiz says that he'll throw the whole team behind Vino then the others should be very weary.
    Saiz's teams in the past were superb (remember ONCE in the 1990's).

  3. limerickman said:

    Saiz has always had an ambivalent attitude toward doping.

    slightly hypocritical too. I think it was Nuno Rubiero that he sacked after his heamotacrit level was too high, but after the same happened to Nozal, he was sacked, but then discreetly reinstated? 😕

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