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19-01.-2008, 01:44 AM	#76
Casa Registered User Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 108	Re: Yet another doping threat (Viennese Blood) Yup, exactly the responses I expected. Demand names, ignore everything else, throw out "doping apologists." Thanks guys for proving my point so well. __________________ Having a great time laughing at you morons!

19-01.-2008, 01:48 AM

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Re: Yet another doping threat (Viennese Blood)

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Yup, exactly the responses I expected. Demand names, ignore everything else, throw out "doping apologists." Thanks guys for proving my point so well.

Name one rider falsely accused of doping who won a libel case.

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morelike hypocrisy.

19-01.-2008, 01:49 AM

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Re: Yet another doping threat (Viennese Blood)

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Yup, exactly the responses I expected. Demand names, ignore everything else, throw out "doping apologists." Thanks guys for proving my point so well.

I'll take that as an admission that you cannot find an example.

You can make an intellectual argument about athletes being libeled, but it would help your case if you could point to an actual example.

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19-01.-2008, 01:52 AM

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Re: Yet another doping threat (Viennese Blood)

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I'll take that as an admission that you cannot find an example.

You can make an intellectual argument about athletes being libeled, but it would help your case if you could point to an actual example.

He can't.

19-01.-2008, 01:56 AM

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Re: Yet another doping threat (Viennese Blood)

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Yup, exactly the responses I expected. Demand names, ignore everything else, throw out "doping apologists." Thanks guys for proving my point so well.

You know what? You sound just like Doctor.House. When people ask for some simple evidence to bolster your point, ignore it and keep repeating the same thing ad nauseum.

19-01.-2008, 02:01 AM

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Re: Vienna blood bank: ARD apologizes for doping report

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That does read as if the information (on which the report was made originally) has been suppressed. You have to pity the reporters in this case - they are probably toast.

Yes but Seppelt is used to it. As he tried to uncover Telekom years ago he was replaced to a regional channel.

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19-01.-2008, 02:31 AM

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Re: Yet another doping threat (Viennese Blood)

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Name one rider falsely accused of doping who won a libel case.

I can't because the way the system is it's impossible to win a libel case because it's impossible to prove you have never doped once you are accused. Just read this forum and you see excellent examples of people taking a rumor as truth and refusing to believe anything else. Why do you choose to only discuss this one aspect of what I am saying? Could it be because you are wrong about the rest of what I have said?

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19-01.-2008, 02:49 AM

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Re: Yet another doping threat (Viennese Blood)

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Wrong.

Libel cases are won regularly in the courts.

The rider in question is not required to show that he didn't dope in a court of law.

Invariably this will mean that the accuser, under cross examination in a court of law, is required to provide proof of the allegation that they're making against a rider.
If the accuser cannot provide proof to the court - then the libel is upheld and the plaintiff wins the case.

So can you name one rider who won a libel case concerning the allegation about doping by the media.

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19-01.-2008, 03:40 AM	#84
poulidor Registered User Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 932	Re: Yet another doping threat (Viennese Blood) FC Barcelona has won recently against Le Monde for their allegations about connection between Fuentes and Barcelona.

19-01.-2008, 04:02 AM

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Re: Yet another doping threat (Viennese Blood)

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FC Barcelona has won recently against Le Monde for their allegations about connection between Fuentes and Barcelona.

Um, that doesn't quite count for this discussion since we are discussing riders whose career has been destroyed purely by media speculation.

19-01.-2008, 09:27 AM	#86
cyclingheroes Registered User Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 3,444	Re: Yet another doping threat (Viennese Blood) According to an interview with Thijs Poelstra in South-America the doping problem is far from over: Thijs Poelstra: "In Africa they always sprint, even to come in 85th." http://www.cyclingheroes.info/id1114.html __________________ Cycling news, picture galleries & live coverage www.cyclingheroes.info

19-01.-2008, 10:30 AM

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Re: Yet another doping threat (Viennese Blood)

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According to an interview with Thijs Poelstra in South-America the doping problem is far from over:

Thijs Poelstra: "In Africa they always sprint, even to come in 85th."
http://www.cyclingheroes.info/id1114.html

I found this statement to be very interesting. Thijs says that collaboration is almost impossible. That must make the races more stressful for the riders.

19-01.-2008, 10:44 AM

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Re: Yet another doping threat (Viennese Blood)

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I found this statement to be very interesting. Thijs says that collaboration is almost impossible. That must make the races more stressful for the riders.

Oh yes!

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19-01.-2008, 02:21 PM

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Re: Vienna blood bank: ARD apologizes for doping report

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That does read as if the information (on which the report was made originally) has been suppressed. You have to pity the reporters in this case - they are probably toast.

This whole thing gets more and more murky. Either the reporters did a shoddy job, or there's a coverup going on. If I remember correctly, the cyclists were the only athletes mentioned by name.

19-01.-2008, 02:51 PM

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Re: Yet another doping threat (Viennese Blood)

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When you sue for libel...you don't have to prove that you didn't do the alleged activity...you place the onus on the accusers to prove their allegations. If you didn't do the alleged activity...the accusers/libelers won't be able to produce real proof...hence you win the case.

Since when does the plaintiff have to prove they never did it? For example: If some newspaper says that you are gay ...and you sue them for libel...you don't have to go to court and prove that you've never had gay sex. It is up to the defendant to prove, with evidence, that you are gay...and that his public statements weren't libelous.

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