Discovery Channel excluded from ProTour team group

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Personally I think the whole Operation Puerto investigation is

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just another example of guilt by inuendo.

Except cycling teams don't seem prepared to threaten him with hitmen
like the footy clubs are alleged to have done (by Fuentes).

On 10 Dec 2006 09:31:14 +0100, Davey Crockett <[email hidden]>

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Discovery Channel excluded from ProTour team group (Professional
Cycling Teams (IPCT) group)
(http://www.velonews.com/news/fea/11301.0.html )

I am a little confused here, what authority does the IPCT have....??
IPCT is kicking Discovery out, because Basso is involved Operation
Puerto. Personally I think the whole Operation Puerto investigation is
just another example of guilt by inuendo.

The IPCT is the TRADES UNION for teams which are
allowed travel with Paddy McBoggy's UCI sponsored Pro-Tour Circus

The maximum number of members is Twenty since there are only
twenty places for teams on the Pro Tour

That is it in a nutshell, and IPCT is a business oriented Trades Union
under the Chairmanship of Patrick Lefévère, a Belgian national who is
manager of the Quick-Step professional Cycling team.

They represent a Special Interest droup.

If you are confused, leave it at what Davey outlined above and you
will not go too far wrong.

So Davey, is it a _good_ thing that an industry association has blackballed a
worker in that trade on the basis of an accusation by some cop?

Ron

RonSonic said:

On 10 Dec 2006 09:31:14 +0100, Davey Crockett <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Discovery Channel excluded from ProTour team group (Professional
Cycling Teams (IPCT) group)
(http://www.velonews.com/news/fea/11301.0.html )

I am a little confused here, what authority does the IPCT have....??
IPCT is kicking Discovery out, because Basso is involved Operation
Puerto. Personally I think the whole Operation Puerto investigation is
just another example of guilt by inuendo.

The IPCT is the TRADES UNION for teams which are
allowed travel with Paddy McBoggy's UCI sponsored Pro-Tour Circus

The maximum number of members is Twenty since there are only
twenty places for teams on the Pro Tour

That is it in a nutshell, and IPCT is a business oriented Trades Union
under the Chairmanship of Patrick Lefévère, a Belgian national who is
manager of the Quick-Step professional Cycling team.

They represent a Special Interest droup.

If you are confused, leave it at what Davey outlined above and you
will not go too far wrong.

So Davey, is it a _good_ thing that an industry association has blackballed a
worker in that trade on the basis of an accusation by some cop?

Davey was trying to state facts to help someone sort out the mess

He wasn't offering an opinion one way or the other, Ron

But if you want Davey's opinon, he thinks that the whole gamut of
alphabet soup organizations should be disbanded as political and
detrimental to the sport of cycling

Politicians can make a mess of truly Gargantuan proportions out of the
simplest situation

--
Le vent à Dos
Davey Crockett [No 4Q to reply]
X-Shakespeare: "MacDuff: What three things does drink especially provoke?
Porter: Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and
urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes;
it provokes the desire, but it takes
away the performance." -- Macbeth, II.3

Davey Crockett said:

Politicians can make a mess of truly Gargantuan proportions out of the
simplest situation

Please don't criticize the leaders.