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Ryan Cousineau
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In article <[email protected]>,
"Mike Jacoubowsky" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> It is not odd to protect your biggest asset. If they have another
> >> tainted
> >> tdf it will be crippling for business. Contador and Astana both make
> >> that
> >> likely. Contador because he is involved with Puerto. Astana because
> >> they
> >> **** the bed last year and that WAS their second chance. The remnants of
> >> tailwind is a red herring that the fans of Trek sponsored riders like to
> >> throw out.
> >>
> >
> > If they want a clean race they have to make sure
> > nobody is _caught_ doping. <wink>
>
> Which is exactly the problem. The ASO should see positive doping tests as an
> indication that things are working, and a sign to others that they might get
> caught. A lack of positive tests is not, to me, a good sign that people
> aren't doping. Rather, my cynical viewpoint is that it's a sign that people
> aren't getting caught.
The problem, of course, with this enlightened view, is that it implies
that if you are not catching witches, then you are not hunting hard
enough.
Of course, cycling suffers from a very real witch infestation, which
only makes the problem of witchlessness harder, eh? I mean, if what
we're doing now starts working, when will we know?
--
Ryan Cousineau [email protected] http://www.wiredcola.com/
"In other newsgroups, they killfile trolls."
"In rec.bicycles.racing, we coach them."
"Mike Jacoubowsky" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> It is not odd to protect your biggest asset. If they have another
> >> tainted
> >> tdf it will be crippling for business. Contador and Astana both make
> >> that
> >> likely. Contador because he is involved with Puerto. Astana because
> >> they
> >> **** the bed last year and that WAS their second chance. The remnants of
> >> tailwind is a red herring that the fans of Trek sponsored riders like to
> >> throw out.
> >>
> >
> > If they want a clean race they have to make sure
> > nobody is _caught_ doping. <wink>
>
> Which is exactly the problem. The ASO should see positive doping tests as an
> indication that things are working, and a sign to others that they might get
> caught. A lack of positive tests is not, to me, a good sign that people
> aren't doping. Rather, my cynical viewpoint is that it's a sign that people
> aren't getting caught.
The problem, of course, with this enlightened view, is that it implies
that if you are not catching witches, then you are not hunting hard
enough.
Of course, cycling suffers from a very real witch infestation, which
only makes the problem of witchlessness harder, eh? I mean, if what
we're doing now starts working, when will we know?
--
Ryan Cousineau [email protected] http://www.wiredcola.com/
"In other newsgroups, they killfile trolls."
"In rec.bicycles.racing, we coach them."