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[email protected]>, Tony B
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[email protected]') wrote:
> http://sport.guardian.co.uk/cycling/story/0,,2066190,00.html
>
> looks like retirement looms.... it's not le dopage so much as the
> protestations of innocence. It's very sad.
OK, I'm a Basso fan. But what happened to innocent until proved guilty? The
only thing which links Basso to those bads is a name - 'Birrilo' - which
turned out NOT to be the name of Basso's dog; and two intercepted phone
calls from Fuentes which did not refer to anyone by name, and did not
allege that anyone had taken any substance or used any blood infusion.
Basso /may/ be guilty. But if he isn't guilty he's been made to lose what
would have been two of the most significant years of his career - the apex
of his career - as a consequence of trial by tittle-tattle and innuendo.
Even if he's not guilty, by the time he's found not guilty he will have
served exactly the same sentence as the maximum sentence which could have
be handed down if he had been guilty (OK, if he is found guilty he'll have
to do two years in smaller teams before he's allowed back into the pro
tour, but he will already have served out his suspension).
So let's have a little respect for justice, here.
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[email protected] (Simon Brooke)
http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/
;; killing [afghan|iraqi] civilians is not 'justice'
