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I like this part the best:

Quoted post said:

"Liquigas, like the Italian cycling federation, are completely in the dark about this business."

That part really cracked me up for some reason.

helmutRoole2 said:

That part really cracked me up for some reason.

I am sure they were also completely in the dark when DiLuca transformed into a Giro killer.

Bro Deal said:

I am sure they were also completely in the dark when DiLuca transformed into a Giro killer.

For that transformtion Di Luca and some teammates had gone to Mexico. Liquigas was completely in the dark about Mexico. Indeed it turns out the team had never even heard of the American continent, let alone any of the individual countries.

Rolfrae said:

For that transformtion Di Luca and some teammates had gone to Mexico. Liquigas was completely in the dark about Mexico. Indeed it turns out the team had never even heard of the American continent, let alone any of the individual countries.

Don't be surprised if Basso transforms his current form into a Giro-winner form come May.

RdBiker said:

Don't be surprised if Basso transforms his current form into a Giro-winner form come May.

Yea, well... Hopefully he won't get his poor dog involved this time. 😄

helmutRoole2 said:

I like this part the best:

That part really cracked me up for some reason.

dsss

helmutRoole2 said:

Liquigas racer arrested in drug probe

By Agence France Presse
Posted Mar. 11, 2009

Italian Liquigas racer Gianni Da Ros was arrested on Wednesday in the northern city of Padua amid an investigation into the trafficking of banned doping products, the ANSA news agency reported.

Da Ros, 23, was arrested during a team run out at the Padua velodrome and was to be questioned Thursday by a Milan judge, ANSA reported.

The news agency added that the investigation at the behest of the Milan state prosecutor had seen 12 people arrested in total as well as 64 searches of properties across the country.

Aside from Da Ros, amateur racers, physios, gym staff and traders are caught up in the latest doping dragnet launched a year ago following a television report entitled "Muscles and Doping,” which purported to show how athletes could obtain doping substances from traders.

Liquigas said that it, along with the Italian cycling federation, had suspended the rider.

"Liquigas, like the Italian cycling federation, are completely in the dark about this business," the federation said in a statement. "The team's technical staff have provided all the help necessary to help the work of the police."

sddd

spinner32 said:

Yea, well... Hopefully he won't get his poor dog involved this time. 😄

SDD

Looks like Piti might go again ? Whats this ? Round 28 ?
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Italian National Olympic Committee (Coni) anti-doping prosecutor Ettore Torri on Wednesday called for Alejandro Valverde, embroiled in a Spanish blood doping probe, to be suspended for two years.

Last month, Valverde told an Italian anti-doping hearing he had not done anything wrong and was not in any way mixed up in Spain's Operation Puerto scandal. According to Torri, blood samples from Valverde emanating from a doping control during last year's Tour de France during a stage in Italy matched DNA samples from suspect blood bags discovered in the Spanish investigation, which dates from 2006.

whiteboytrash said:

Looks like Piti might go again ? Whats this ? Round 28 ?
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Italian National Olympic Committee (Coni) anti-doping prosecutor Ettore Torri on Wednesday called for Alejandro Valverde, embroiled in a Spanish blood doping probe, to be suspended for two years.

Last month, Valverde told an Italian anti-doping hearing he had not done anything wrong and was not in any way mixed up in Spain's Operation Puerto scandal. According to Torri, blood samples from Valverde emanating from a doping control during last year's Tour de France during a stage in Italy matched DNA samples from suspect blood bags discovered in the Spanish investigation, which dates from 2006.

So he'll be banned in Italy but free to race elsewhere? Coni wouldn't have charged him without evidence - does that evidence not translate into Spanish/French etc?

Rolfrae said:

So he'll be banned in Italy but free to race elsewhere? Coni wouldn't have charged him without evidence - does that evidence not translate into Spanish/French etc?

I thought the way it worked was that the UCI would impose a ban following the decision of the Italian federation, and Valverde would then go to the CAS.

Rolfrae said:

So he'll be banned in Italy but free to race elsewhere? Coni wouldn't have charged him without evidence - does that evidence not translate into Spanish/French etc?

wee

Todays good news.....
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The IOC has said that there is a possibility that Jan Ullrich and Andreas Klöden could lose their medals from the 2000 Olympics due to their involvement in the Freiburg University doping scandal.

The Austrian doping scandal continues to mushroom. Former Gerolsteiner rider Georg Totschnig, who had a spectacular victory in the Pyrenean stage to Ax-Trois Domaines in the 2005 Tour de France is the latest to be named. It is believed that he was receiving autologous blood transfusions. He retired in 2006.

whiteboytrash said:

Todays good news.....
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The IOC has said that there is a possibility that Jan Ullrich and Andreas Klöden could lose their medals from the 2000 Olympics due to their involvement in the Freiburg University doping scandal.

The Austrian doping scandal continues to mushroom. Former Gerolsteiner rider Georg Totschnig, who had a spectacular victory in the Pyrenean stage to Ax-Trois Domaines in the 2005 Tour de France is the latest to be named. It is believed that he was receiving autologous blood transfusions. He retired in 2006.

The worse it gets for Ullrich, the more likely I think he is to spill the beans. He is adamant he "did nothing wrong" because he knows the majority of his competitors at the time were using the same things.

whiteboytrash said:

Todays good news.....
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The IOC has said that there is a possibility that Jan Ullrich and Andreas Klöden could lose their medals from the 2000 Olympics due to their involvement in the Freiburg University doping scandal.

The Austrian doping scandal continues to mushroom. Former Gerolsteiner rider Georg Totschnig, who had a spectacular victory in the Pyrenean stage to Ax-Trois Domaines in the 2005 Tour de France is the latest to be named. It is believed that he was receiving autologous blood transfusions. He retired in 2006.

Awesome. Hopefully they can give the gold medal to a good clean rider like Vino. (And give a silver TT medal to Armstrong).

Rolfrae said:

The worse it gets for Ullrich, the more likely I think he is to spill the beans. He is adamant he "did nothing wrong" because he knows the majority of his competitors at the time were using the same things.

wee

bump

whiteboytrash said:

Todays good news.....
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The IOC has said that there is a possibility that Jan Ullrich and Andreas Klöden could lose their medals from the 2000 Olympics due to their involvement in the Freiburg University doping scandal.

The Austrian doping scandal continues to mushroom. Former Gerolsteiner rider Georg Totschnig, who had a spectacular victory in the Pyrenean stage to Ax-Trois Domaines in the 2005 Tour de France is the latest to be named. It is believed that he was receiving autologous blood transfusions. He retired in 2006.

It has been more than eight years for Ullrich. How do they propose to ignore the time limit?

Gerolsteiner: I hope soemone names Leipheimer. It is ridiculous that in his mid-thirties he is way better than he was in his late twenties. At this rate when he hits forty he will be winning P-R, the Tour, and all the Olympic track events.

whiteboytrash said:

Todays good news.....

The Austrian doping scandal continues to mushroom. Former Gerolsteiner rider Georg Totschnig, who had a spectacular victory in the Pyrenean stage to Ax-Trois Domaines in the 2005 Tour de France is the latest to be named. It is believed that he was receiving autologous blood transfusions. He retired in 2006.

Totschnig was a megastar in his home country after that stage win. It will be another huge blow to Austrian and I suppose German cycling.