Alec Sander said:That's the only way to get this sport clean. Go after the $$. Phonak
has financed the one of the dirtiest teams in history. IShares is
taking over and financing one of the dirtiest teams in history.
Boycotting the sponsors is the only way to clean up this sport. It's
the only power we have as fans to save our sport.
If all the sponsors leave then there's no money to finance the doping,
salaries etc.
But I guarantee you there will be plenty of athletes to race every
single event on the calendar...just won't be these doped up [censored] who
are systematically killing the sport.
The bad rules, bad enforcement, and bad publicity are causing lost
careers, lost sponsors, lost media coverage.
Did you read what Greg Lemond said?
http://sports.yahoo.com/sc/news?slug=ap-landis-lemond&prov=ap&type=lgns
(quoting from above link):
The way three-time Tour de France winner Greg LeMond sees it, 2006
champion Floyd Landis is already a victim.
Even if his backup "B" sample comes back negative -- the results are
expected Saturday -- Landis will be tainted by unfounded claims that he
cheated.
"If it does come back positive, that's even more tragic to me," LeMond
said, because the pressure to compete against those who are cheating
"takes good people and forces them to make tragic decisions."
If the guy next to you can dope and not get caught, and/or you can dope
with a small-to-no chance of being caught, and if "everyone" is doping
with only a few being caught, and almost all of those caught not by
testing but by phone taps and police raids-- what would you do? With a
whole lot of money at stake, plus your name in the record books, social
status, etc.
Stop scapegoating. Or are you the perfect one who can throw stones?
If you want to "clean up the sport", start at the top with the UCI. And
[censored] Pound. He's running a dirty game (making rules that can't be
enforced). --D-y
