Pezcyclingnews: Eurotrash Stybar Monday!

Double World cyclo-cross champion, Zdenek Stybar, showed his class on Saturday taking the top spot in the Strade Bianche, we have the result, report, video and rider quotes. We also have a quick look at the CIRC report, results from Paris-Nice and the 3 Days of West Flanders and preview Tirreno-Adriatico and news from Trentino, Turkey and Fly6.TOP STORY: The CIRC ReportThe long awaited CIRC report was made live at 00:01 CET Monday morning, but wasn’t great bed-time reading, but if you want a history lesson on doping it’s worth a look.Read the report and make up your own mind and not listen to anyone else. If you want the fast answer to what the report holds; there isn’t one, except that during the time of Hein Verbruggen as head man of the UCI, he was the boss and ruled absolute and it carried on during Pat McQuaid’s time. McQuaid could not cut the ties between himself and Verbruggen as the Dutchman had put McQuaid in the job. During this time the rules were maybe bent to assist Lance Armstrong and some riders were treated leniently, there were no cases of bribery found, but there was a fair amount of back scratching. The misuse of the TUE system also comes under close scrutiny.Is there anything new? No, there is nothing we haven’t heard before, but it is perfectly documented and well laid out. Is there an answer to cycling’s problems? The Commission says “there is no straight forward solution to...

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