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  1. http://eurosport.com/cycling/tour-de-france/2006/sport_sto924752.shtml
    Time trial winner Serhiy Honchar is under a legal cloud in an Italian
    doping investigation, French daily Le Monde reported on Wednesday, the
    day the Ukrainian lost his yellow jersey. Honchar is accused of
    "possession, concealment and consumption doping products," during the
    2001 Giro D'Italia.

    The current T-Mobile rider was recorded discussing use of illegal
    products while he rode for the Liquigas-Pata team in 2001 the newspaper
    reported.

    If they are even vaguely fair and objective he's gone in the next
    couple of days. Wanna bet he stays for the whole Tour?
    Bill C

  2. On 12 Jul 2006 15:18:38 -0700, "Bill C" <[email hidden]>

    Quoted message said:

    http://eurosport.com/cycling/tour-de-france/2006/sport_sto924752.shtml
    Time trial winner Serhiy Honchar is under a legal cloud in an Italian
    doping investigation, French daily Le Monde reported on Wednesday, the
    day the Ukrainian lost his yellow jersey. Honchar is accused of
    "possession, concealment and consumption doping products," during the
    2001 Giro D'Italia.

    The current T-Mobile rider was recorded discussing use of illegal
    products while he rode for the Liquigas-Pata team in 2001 the newspaper
    reported.

    If they are even vaguely fair and objective he's gone in the next
    couple of days. Wanna bet he stays for the whole Tour?
    Bill C

    Then Landaluze will have to go too, as well as the 21 other guys
    involved in doping over the years - http://cyclisme.dopage.free.fr/

  3. Bill C said:

    http://eurosport.com/cycling/tour-de-france/2006/sport_sto924752.shtml
    Time trial winner Serhiy Honchar is under a legal cloud in an Italian
    doping investigation, French daily Le Monde reported on Wednesday, the
    day the Ukrainian lost his yellow jersey. Honchar is accused of
    "possession, concealment and consumption doping products," during the
    2001 Giro D'Italia.

    The current T-Mobile rider was recorded discussing use of illegal
    products while he rode for the Liquigas-Pata team in 2001 the newspaper
    reported.

    If they are even vaguely fair and objective he's gone in the next
    couple of days. Wanna bet he stays for the whole Tour?
    Bill C

    Makes me wonder...
    - Birillo is actually a commen surname in Ukraine
    - And Honchar also fits the famuos 16 sec on stage 8 in the Giro
    - And the name of Bassos dog is by his lawyer claimed to be Tarello

    So maybe Birillo is not Basso after all??

  4. Sorry, that was 16 sec on stage 7

  5. SlowRunningSteve said:
    Bill C said:

    http://eurosport.com/cycling/tour-de-france/2006/sport_sto924752.shtml
    Time trial winner Serhiy Honchar is under a legal cloud in an Italian
    doping investigation, French daily Le Monde reported on Wednesday, the
    day the Ukrainian lost his yellow jersey. Honchar is accused of
    "possession, concealment and consumption doping products," during the
    2001 Giro D'Italia.

    The current T-Mobile rider was recorded discussing use of illegal
    products while he rode for the Liquigas-Pata team in 2001 the newspaper
    reported.

    If they are even vaguely fair and objective he's gone in the next
    couple of days. Wanna bet he stays for the whole Tour?
    Bill C

    Makes me wonder...
    - Birillo is actually a commen surname in Ukraine
    - And Honchar also fits the famuos 16 sec on stage 8 in the Giro
    - And the name of Bassos dog is by his lawyer claimed to be Tarello

    So maybe Birillo is not Basso after all??

    Looks like L'Equippe was doing their best tabloid impersonation again:
    http://eurosport.com/cycling/tour-de-france/2006/sport_sto925079.shtml

    T-Mobile received confirmation Wednesday from Italian authorities that
    doping charges against Serhiy Honchar from the 2001 Giro were dropped
    in September L'Equipe has reported. French daily Le Monde republished
    the accusations of "possession, concealment and consumption" in their
    Thursday edition.
    The French newspaper reprinted recorded conversations between Honchar
    and his then Liquigas-Pata team doctor which they said implicated him
    in the San Remo doping probe from 2001.
    But the Ukrainian, who won this year's time trial and wore the yellow
    jersey for T-Mobile for three stages, was reportedly cleared of all
    charges in September.

    Nice of them to print the allegations and not print the fact that he
    had been cleared. Just another example that they are on a campaign and
    while not lying outright, will fail to present anything that doesn't
    support their position. That's what propaganda outlets and tools do,
    not news journalists. Unfortunately it seems to be a much more common
    thing today.
    Bill C

  6. Bill C said:


    SlowRunningSteve said:
    Bill C said:

    http://eurosport.com/cycling/tour-de-france/2006/sport_sto924752.shtml
    Time trial winner Serhiy Honchar is under a legal cloud in an Italian
    doping investigation, French daily Le Monde reported on Wednesday, the
    day the Ukrainian lost his yellow jersey. Honchar is accused of
    "possession, concealment and consumption doping products," during the
    2001 Giro D'Italia.

    The current T-Mobile rider was recorded discussing use of illegal
    products while he rode for the Liquigas-Pata team in 2001 the newspaper
    reported.

    If they are even vaguely fair and objective he's gone in the next
    couple of days. Wanna bet he stays for the whole Tour?
    Bill C

    Makes me wonder...
    - Birillo is actually a commen surname in Ukraine
    - And Honchar also fits the famuos 16 sec on stage 8 in the Giro
    - And the name of Bassos dog is by his lawyer claimed to be Tarello

    So maybe Birillo is not Basso after all??

    Looks like L'Equippe was doing their best tabloid impersonation again:
    http://eurosport.com/cycling/tour-de-france/2006/sport_sto925079.shtml

    Impersonation? I thought they were, in fact and literally a tabloid.

    Ron

  7. Bill C said:
    SlowRunningSteve said:
    Bill C said:

    http://eurosport.com/cycling/tour-de-france/2006/sport_sto924752.shtml
    Time trial winner Serhiy Honchar is under a legal cloud in an Italian
    doping investigation, French daily Le Monde reported on Wednesday, the
    day the Ukrainian lost his yellow jersey. Honchar is accused of
    "possession, concealment and consumption doping products," during the
    2001 Giro D'Italia.


    Looks like L'Equippe was doing their best tabloid impersonation again:
    http://eurosport.com/cycling/tour-de-france/2006/sport_sto925079.shtml

    T-Mobile received confirmation Wednesday from Italian authorities that
    doping charges against Serhiy Honchar from the 2001 Giro were dropped
    in September L'Equipe has reported. French daily Le Monde republished
    the accusations of "possession, concealment and consumption" in their
    Thursday edition.
    The French newspaper reprinted recorded conversations between Honchar
    and his then Liquigas-Pata team doctor which they said implicated him
    in the San Remo doping probe from 2001.
    But the Ukrainian, who won this year's time trial and wore the yellow
    jersey for T-Mobile for three stages, was reportedly cleared of all
    charges in September.

    Nice of them to print the allegations and not print the fact that he
    had been cleared. Just another example that they are on a campaign and
    while not lying outright, will fail to present anything that doesn't
    support their position. That's what propaganda outlets and tools do,
    not news journalists. Unfortunately it seems to be a much more common
    thing today.

    Going by Eurosport reporting what Le Monde said, we don't know
    what Le Monde printed. Also, if the Italian authorities are this late
    in informing T-Mobile that he was cleared last September, who
    else did they not tell?

    Le Monde's standards or not, the question is whether there needs
    to be some kind of statute of limitations on the rule that sidelines
    riders involved in a doping investigation. It would be pretty
    ridiculous to exclude someone from the race based on a five
    year old investigation; the dope cops should have been able to
    bring charges or wind it up long ago. But from the dope cops's
    point of view, there's no real incentive to reach a conclusion,
    depending on how their particular country's injustice system
    works.

  8. Quoted message said:


    Going by Eurosport reporting what Le Monde said, we don't know
    what Le Monde printed. Also, if the Italian authorities are this late
    in informing T-Mobile that he was cleared last September, who
    else did they not tell?

    Le Monde's standards or not, the question is whether there needs
    to be some kind of statute of limitations on the rule that sidelines
    riders involved in a doping investigation. It would be pretty
    ridiculous to exclude someone from the race based on a five
    year old investigation; the dope cops should have been able to
    bring charges or wind it up long ago. But from the dope cops's
    point of view, there's no real incentive to reach a conclusion,
    depending on how their particular country's injustice system
    works.

    Agreed Ben.
    Brian has proposed a clean break for possible past infractions,
    resetting the sytem, and going on in a rational manner with draconian
    penalties for doping.
    I think it's a great idea if they reform the anti-doping system while
    they are at it, but you're right there definitely needs to be a statute
    of limitations.
    Bill C

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