A Real Man

Zabel in CyclingNews:

He was unable to control his voice or hold back his tears when he spoke of
his son Rick. "My son rides, too, and I don't want him to go through what I
went through," said the four-time winner of Milano-Sanremo.

"It doesn't make any difference whether it happened one time or over two
years, the point is that it was forbidden to dope, and I doped. I doped, I
lied and I apologize for that."

This is what it will take if there is any hope to clean up the sport.
Despite what Coggan and Coyle, et al. might think, the performances of the
past 15 years aren't the result of training and naturally increased
efficiency. And why did Telecom turn to EPO? Was it because they say how
suddenly a guy named Indurain went from super domestic to ace climber and
time trialist? Or that a guy like Chiapucci could suddenly make the Tour
podium when he wasn't good enough to even sit on Roche's wheel when
climbing?

Thank God our American riders are clean. ;-)

B. Lafferty said:

Zabel in CyclingNews:

He was unable to control his voice or hold back his tears when he spoke of
his son Rick. "My son rides, too, and I don't want him to go through what I
went through," said the four-time winner of Milano-Sanremo.

"It doesn't make any difference whether it happened one time or over two
years, the point is that it was forbidden to dope, and I doped. I doped, I
lied and I apologize for that."

This is what it will take if there is any hope to clean up the sport.

Grown men crying?

The fault lies with the rules, Brian.

Where is the virtue in making rules that cannot be fairly enforced?
IOW, making rules that cannot be enforced by simple (i.e., not open to
"interpretation"😉 testing for prohibited substances.

Quoted message said:

Despite what Coggan and Coyle, et al. might think, the performances of the
past 15 years aren't the result of training and naturally increased
efficiency. And why did Telecom turn to EPO? Was it because they say how
suddenly a guy named Indurain went from super domestic to ace climber and
time trialist? Or that a guy like Chiapucci could suddenly make the Tour
podium when he wasn't good enough to even sit on Roche's wheel when
climbing?

If the guy or the team next to you can dope with impunity, the rules
(and enforcement of them) are at fault for creating the situation in
the first place.

The power lies with the rule-making owners of the sport. They're doing
a mighty poor job of administration.

The riders are scapegoats.

You didn't mention whatsisname. Is the fixation over? --D-y

was he a real man last year with his holier-than-thou BS about all the
dopers?

he was always one of my favorite riders, doped or not, until then.

when Der Spiegel did their "haben Sie schon gedoppt" questioning (see
YouTube) ... it was obvious in the look on Zabel's face that he had.
Voight too despite all his protestations.