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  1. LES NEGATIONS DE L'UCI

    The today editorial of l'Equipe. (september 10 2005)

    Sorry but in french ; may be someone can help in the translation

    DIX SEPT JOURS.

    Dix sept jours, du mardi 23 août à hier, vendredi 9 septembre : tel est le
    délai qu'il a fallu à l 'Union cycliste internationale (UCI) et à son
    président, Hein Verbruggen, pour réagir (voir page 16) à la révélation, dans
    l'Equipe de la présence d'EPO, produit dopant lourd interdit depuis le début
    des années 90n dans six échantillons d'urine différents de Lance Armstrong
    conservés depuis le Tour de France 1999

    Normal, Lance Armstrong n'est après tout que le vainqueur des sept derniers
    Tour de France, et à ce titre recordman de l'épreuve la plus prestigieuse et
    la plus emblématique du sport cycliste, dont l'UCI est le gouvernement. Et
    les pièces publiées dans l'Equipe du 23 août n'auraient rien démontré d
    'essentiel : juste qu "Armstrong avait triché pour remporter son premier
    Tour de France et qu'il avait menti tout au long de sa carrière, en
    affirmant qu'il n'avait jamais, pendant l'exercice de celle-ci, consommé de
    produit dopant.

    Pareille information valait-elle que l'UCI et son président s'interrogent
    sur le fond : les règles et l'éthique du sport ; et sur cette question
    essentielle : Lance Armstrong a-t-il triché ou menti ? Bien sûr que non. Les
    préoccupations de l'UCI et de M. Verbruggen sont ailleurs : qui sont les
    responsables de cette nouvelle atteinte à la probité du cyclisme et de son
    plus éminent champion ? Qui a permis la fuite d'informations censées rester
    confidentielle ? De quel droit Richard Pound, président de l'Agence mondiale
    antidopage, s'exprime-t-il sur le sujet, etc. ?

    L'attitude de l'Union cycliste internationale nous a souvent interpellé
    quant à sa propre hiérarchie des combats à mener. Elle est cette fois
    confondante. Hein Verbruggen le reconnaissait lui-même, avec un brin de
    fatalisme, dans les colonnes du Figaro, hier matin : " Je sais déjà qu'il y
    aura des reproches avançant que nous ne nous attaquons qu'à la procédure.. "

    Oui, sur ce dossier Armstrong, on peut légitimement reprocher à l'UCI et à
    M. Verbruggen de ne pas se soucier du devenir de leur sport, qui court
    pourtant de très graves dangers.

    Au passage, bien entendu, ils ont également mis en cause la rigueur et l'objectivité
    du travail de l'Equipe. Nos lecteurs en sont juges. C'est bien connu : ce n'est
    pas dans les pelotons que le dopage est une abomination, mais bien dans les
    colonnes des journaux.

    Claude Droussent

  2. Montesquiou said:

    LES NEGATIONS DE L'UCI

    The today editorial of l'Equipe. (september 10 2005)

    Sorry but in french ; may be someone can help in the translation

    Shorter version: "Hein? Thhpppbbbttt."

  3. "Robert Chung" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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    Quoted message said:
    Montesquiou said:

    LES NEGATIONS DE L'UCI

    The today editorial of l'Equipe. (september 10 2005)

    Sorry but in french ; may be someone can help in the translation

    Shorter version: "Hein? Thhpppbbbttt."


    Indeed. And Droussent is correct, the essential question is, "Lance
    Armstrong a-t-il triché ou menti ?"

  4. Il parait qui'll a fait tout les deux...tricher et mentir.

  5. B. Lafferty said:

    Indeed. And Droussent is correct, the essential question is, "Lance
    Armstrong a-t-il triché ou menti ?"

    In much the same way that the essential question is "Who really killed
    Nicole Simpson?"

  6. B. Lafferty said:

    "Robert Chung" <[email hidden]> wrote

    Quoted message said:


    Shorter version: "Hein? Thhpppbbbttt."


    Indeed. And Droussent is correct, the essential question is, "Lance
    Armstrong a-t-il triché ou menti ?"

    Brian? Thhpppbbbttt.

  7. "B. Lafferty" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:


    "Robert Chung" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:
    Montesquiou said:

    LES NEGATIONS DE L'UCI

    The today editorial of l'Equipe. (september 10 2005)

    Sorry but in french ; may be someone can help in the translation

    Shorter version: "Hein? Thhpppbbbttt."


    Indeed. And Droussent is correct, the essential question is, "Lance
    Armstrong a-t-il triché ou menti ?"

    It's okay, Brian. _I_ believe you.

    ROFL

    --
    All men dream, but not equally.
    Those who dream by night in the dusty
    recesses of their minds
    Awake to find that it was vanity;
    But the dreamers of day are dangerous men,
    That they may act their dreams with open eyes to make it possible.
    -- T. E. Lawrence

    http://spaces.msn.com/members/flomblog/

  8. Sandy said:

    Cheating, not biochemistry, is the part of
    competition that makes this no longer a sport.

    Dumbass -

    You've got your head up your ass.

    Biochemistry is now a part of *all* professional sports and has been
    for quite some time. Cycling is not unique in this regard.

    thanks,

    K. Gringioni.

  9. Kurgan Gringioni said:


    Sandy said:

    Cheating, not biochemistry, is the part of
    competition that makes this no longer a sport.

    Dumbass -

    You've got your head up your ass.

    Biochemistry is now a part of *all* professional sports and has been
    for quite some time. Cycling is not unique in this regard.

    thanks,

    K. Gringioni.

    And the more you win, the more you are going to be in the spotlight
    regarding biochemistry.

    Either get used to it or get a new line of work.

    D

  10. Montesquiou said:

    LES NEGATIONS DE L'UCI

    The today editorial of l'Equipe. (september 10 2005)

    Sorry but in french ; may be someone can help in the translation

    Droussent must have written this in a hurry, cause it isn't much of an
    exercice de style. Maybe it's another indication of the superiority of
    French culture that good writers don't become sports writers.

    SEVENTEEN DAYS.

    Seventeen days, from tuesday August 23rd until yesterday, friday
    September 9th: that's how long it took the UCI and its president, Hein
    Verbruggen, to respond to the Equipe's revelations that EPO, a
    heavy-duty doping product banned since the early 90s, was present in
    six different urine samples taken from Lance Armstrong which had been
    preserved since the 1999 Tour de France.

    It's not unreasonable, since Lance Armstrong is after all merely the
    winner of the last seven Tour de France, and as such hold the record
    for the most prestigious and the signature event of the sport of
    bicycle racing, of which the UCI is the governing body. And the
    evidence published in the Equipe of August 23 didn't show anything
    vitally important: only that Armstrong had cheated to win his first
    Tour de France, and that throughout his career he had lied in asserting
    that he had never consummed any doping products in the exercise of his
    profession.

    Was such information worth enough to make the UCI and its president
    ponder fundamental questions on the rules and ethics of sport, and on
    the key issue: did Lance Armstrong cheat or lie? Of course not. The
    UCI and Mr. Verbruggen have other worries: who are responsible for this
    new attack on the integrity of bike racing and its foremost champion?
    Who leaked information that was supposed to remain confidential? By
    what right does Richard Pound, the president of the World Anti Doping
    Agency, express an opinion on the subject, etc?

    The attitude of the Union cycliste internationale has often perplexed
    us as to its prioritization of struggles. This time, we're confounded.
    Hein Verbruggen himself conceded, with a touch of fatalism, in the
    pages of yesterday's Figaro newspaper: "I already know there will be
    criticisms claiming that we are only attacking the procedure."

    Yes, when it comes to the Armstrong dossier, one can legitimately
    accuse the UCI and Mr. Verbruggen of not caring about the future of
    their sport, which is surely faced with serious trouble.

    Along the way, needless to say, they have also called into question the
    rigor and the objectivity of the Equipe's work. Our readers will juge.
    It's well known, of course: doping isn't an abomination among the
    peloton, but in the pages of newspapers.

    Claude Droussent

  11. B. Lafferty said:
    Quoted message said:

    Indeed. And Droussent is correct, the essential question is, "Lance
    Armstrong a-t-il triché ou menti ?"

    Tim Lines said:

    In much the same way that the essential question is "Who really killed
    Nicole Simpson?"

    Lafferty's grandfather (mother's side).

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