Cheater's Justice for Vino!

Robbie McEwen is EXEMPT from motorpacing penalties---is Vino?

Vino crashed, paced, motor paced and got worked over by many riders in group #2-----and lost 1:20 ish.

Will the offiicials add on yet more time as a penalty?

That's show business.

ASO typically helps out those who pay the underwriting fees.

Vino should NOT even be in the race---due to his Operation Peurto team associations. Eric Zabel should not be present either.

Hence---ASO has already comped these two drug cheats.

Vino is awesome! He destroyed the field on his way back on a measly cat 3. I can't think of anyone who can beat him. Unless he crashes a bunch more.

Sorry, don't get it. He destroyed who? Riders already dropped by the group going up a cat 3 climb? Did he finish in the group?

Don't get me wrong, I think that Vino put in a very impressive rider for someone with a half a butt cheek missing. But destroy the field? Come on.

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The commissaires pulled all the team cars over to stop him getting motor paced. I think they hoped this would stop him winning when they knew the blood tests wouldn;t/didn't have the balls to stop him riding in the first place. I think your heart is in the right place DocHouse but sometimes you don't make any sense. You need to get your own sub editor to look over your posts before you send.

This will make House proud...
http://www.cyclingnews.com/photos/20.../tour075/fs049

HAHAHA

Vino's team car towed & paced him for quite an excessive time.

The TV camera/producers edit out the 'nature breaks', the 'giant syringes', the EPO taglines and illegal tows.

It is what it is; a for-profit Phamra Opera Theater show.

Doc are you on glue ?

Naw----I just don't have my head in the hole--as your avatar does.

Cheaters justice for:
Ulrich
Basso
Hamilton
Gutierrez
Mazzoleni
DiLuca
Roid Landis
and now Vino.

Still no penalties served up for:
Riis
Pharmstrong
Zabel

The Tour de France must be fun in your house.

Picture it...

The sky is calm, the baby is sleeping and all is well.

THEN (roll on dramatic music) - the Tour de France starts. Doc's head veins start to bulge (much like stressed Eric's) - his face reddens and the scowl appears.

A chilled silence envelopes the house (apart from the occasional expletive and rendom drug name from Doc's mouth).

For 6 hours Doc vex's, stress', yells, accuses, finger points and moans...

Sounds like fun to me. Seriously Doc - why do you bother? The sport obviously causes you a great amount of unhappiness.

Turn to tiddlywinks - sure they take drugs but it doesn't help them much.

The biggest drug problem on this board seems to be yours...

BLAHBLAHBLAHBLAHBLAHBLAH VOMIT

Do you own a bike? If you do (although I doubt it) go out for a ride.

I just read this....... And we need Doctor.House's opinion on this.....

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"Since we started [selling the Livestrong wristbands], we've sold 75 million of these bracelets," said Armstrong. "What's different this year, is that anybody who buys a bracelet during the Tour, all the money stays here. I think it's important for people to understand that the money they spend - 1 Euro - is not going to Texas or the United States, it stays in France."

No please dont encourage him

It doesnt matter, they are all on drugs and lots of them, and probably gene therapy as well. You people are out of touch with reality. Operation Puerto was about public publicity, not "catching cheaters." Anyone who's smart enough to run the biggest sporting event in the world, from a logistical standpoint; knows whats going on in their event. You cannot chip riders or invade their privacy with cameras or head to toe needle mark checks. So forget about the drugs, it will happen. The testing keeps things safer. If the Puerto riders were transfusing, that means everyone is. Theres no test for it. You can assume in a multi million Euro business everyone is competitive enough to be within seconds of eachother on flat terrain, and they are.

Look at '98. Half the teams quit because they were pissed that they were being exposed with no warning. You never saw that happen again, with the cops. The cops have to stay out now; at the tour. At the 01 Giro, they came back, but it was probably desperation from the UCI or organizers because they feared the blood substitute usage was out of control and dangerous, from an allergy standpoint.

So quit whining about the drugs ignorant fools. If you want it gone, write to US senators asking for more federal funds for the USADA. Quite frankly, I would offer an easy solution requiring zero tax dollars. All NBA, NFL football player signs an agreement to give 25% of a year's salary if they are found to have used banned substances. Then go after some of those guys. Thats almost 50 million a pop for some of those brothers. The new research coming from the new money would be more than enough to keep a bunch of skinny $30,000 a year cyclists under wraps.

Every rider who crashes has to ride back through the cars, its like that in every NRC race, UCI race. They cannot monitor what and where everyone is doing.

Exactly........ All the cycling organizations knew what has been happening since the sport began......
I bet there has been many positives in the Tour de France for the men in yellow, but those samples were lost. The organizations know what the sponsors want..... The sponsors run the show with their dollors flowing into the sport. And the fans want to see pumped up riders doing "epic rides", and they do not really care if they are pumped up with magic juice...

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"Since we started [selling the Livestrong wristbands], we've sold 75 million of these bracelets," said Armstrong. "What's different this year, is that anybody who buys a bracelet during the Tour, all the money stays here. I think it's important for people to understand that the money they spend - 1 Euro - is not going to Texas or the United States, it stays in France."