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Quoted message said:Quoted message said:Some people say that the increasing testing and the developing of new
test methods has resulted in an decreasing doping use over the last
few years. Maybe the many bunch sprints in the classics or the fact
that the final of a classic is starting later and later, are a sign of
that.
Kenny
Paul Sherwen actually said as much (agrees with you) in his interview
of Armstrong after the tour this year for OLN.
I plead illness for the above mistakes, for some reason, although I
knew the French run Paris-Roubaix, I thought the race crossed the
border into Belgique...duh it doesnt. (close though)
Illnes??
Quoted message said:Anyhow, the point is Museeuw was doping and it is unfortunate.
No, the point is Museeuw TALKED about doping. But ofcourse he did more
than that 🙂 I find some reactions very strange (especially in flemish
newspapers). Besides the people who still see him as a the belgian
cycling icon of the last 15y, a lot of people who admired him now
almost [censored] on him. I don't know why. Even if it's because they feel
Museeuw cheated, they have only themselves to blame they look at
cycling in a naive way.
I was the first to go crazy when Museeuw made a move. I was a big fan
and i still am (i didn't make a website about him for nothing :-) ).
At the time he was almost invincible (94-98), i didn't ask many
questions (i was mostly in a trance when he performed well). It was
the pre-festina era and i was a lot younger than now. But man, if i
see the footage of the Ronde's he rode and especially his WC '96 ( few
times a year), dzjeezes... It gets more and more inhuman what he did
and it definitely doesn't surpise me now what's happening to him at
his time. And that at a time with challengers like Fondriest, Tchmil,
Bartoli, Ballerini, Sorensen. (who knew just as he what candy they
needed).
Nevertheless, you can never perform a decade on the highest level,
just on doping. He still has something special. Ofcourse, growing up
with johan's career did bias my opinion (you always hold youth
memories close). But if fact people who grew up with Eddy Merckx like
my dad have the same attitude: they all know Merckx was caught for
doping (several times),but they don't make a big deal of it and
Merckx's career stays impressive.
Kenny
