The German forums are reporting its a name rider.....jsull14 said:I hope it wasn't Hincapie or Levi. If so, they was some bad dope.
Tour Not Clean yet: at least one rider sample positive
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I guess WBT means a star, a well know rider. That's what i saw in German forums to but we have to be patient, makes no sense to speculate about the name of the rider here...Orla_24 said:
[size=-1]UCI president Pat McQuaid told AFP he would be dismayed if the test was confirmed but vowed no let-up in the war on drug cheats.[/size]cyclingheroes said:
[size=-1]"From my point of view it's intolerable and we're determined to root out this problem and deal with it," Mcquaid said in a telephone interview. [/size]
"At the moment I'm concerned over the A sample result. If the B sample turns out to be positive, I'll be angry."
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i couldn't agree more. it's completely unfair and totally uncalled for. btw bet it was landis.tiogar said:
Landis?
Landis was selected to drive the criterium "Acht van Chaam" in Holland. He would get € 50.000 to show up there and ride.
But a couple minutes before the start he doesn't show up...know why didn't he show up?? A couple of hours after the message that 1 rider was not clean...he didn't want to ride anymore.
But yesterday everything was fine....he even won. And today he didn't want to ride?? something is wrong here.
Now his team says that he had to go to see his doctor because he was getting trouble with his dying hip.
The reporters tried to talk with John Lelangue but he didn't want to talk
It is said that the rider is not from Spain, France, Italy and Belgium.
It's a name in the peleton and possible in the top 10 of the tour.
(Sorry for my poor english....i'm just from Holland )
Landis was selected to drive the criterium "Acht van Chaam" in Holland. He would get € 50.000 to show up there and ride.
But a couple minutes before the start he doesn't show up...know why didn't he show up??
A couple of hours after the message that 1 rider was not clean...he didn't want to ride anymore. But yesterday everything was fine....he even won. And today he didn't want to ride?? something is wrong here.
Now his team says that he had to go to see his doctor because he was getting trouble with his dying hip.
The reporters tried to talk with John Lelangue but he didn't want to talk
It is said that the rider is not from Spain, France, Italy and Belgium.
It's a name in the peleton and possible in the top 10 of the tour.
(Sorry for my poor english....i'm just from Holland
)
Michael Boogerd seemed to do a lot better than expected - he didn't make the top 10 tho' [14th].
The Times is speculating that it's Landis:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,28910-2287959,00.html
"According to sources in France, the rider concerned is said to have tested positive for testosterone after last Thursday’s stage through the Alps to Morzine, which was won, after a 130-kilometre solo breakaway, by Floyd Landis, of the United States. Landis went on to secure overall victory in the 2006 Tour, which finished in Paris on Sunday."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,28910-2287959,00.html
"According to sources in France, the rider concerned is said to have tested positive for testosterone after last Thursday’s stage through the Alps to Morzine, which was won, after a 130-kilometre solo breakaway, by Floyd Landis, of the United States. Landis went on to secure overall victory in the 2006 Tour, which finished in Paris on Sunday."
Et tu, Landis?karlotta said:
Well, this sucks. Although I thought testosterone was fairly easy to test for and was detectable for quite a while after you take it. It seems strange that Landis would use something that was detectable when he was going for a stage win and would be tested if he succeeded. But then again, who would have thought Heras would use EPO when he had the Vuelta well in hand.
Riders who had miraculous changes in performance during the race: Cunego, Landis, Pereiro.
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