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Simon Brooke
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[email protected] ('[email protected]') wrote:
>> Excluding racers from the Tour for (supposedly; were these coded
>> names?) being on a list?
>> Wow, that would make setting someone up so easy-- you might not even
>> have to have any doping actually taking place! But who cares, as we
>> fight against the scourge of drugs!
>>
>> Dork Pound is selling an illusion. Some foolish people are buying it.
>> Big, big problem.
>>
>> The line "I had to burn that village to save it" offered by another
>> poster really sums up the insanity. Refers to another situation where
>> piling up bodies didn't solve any problems, if you'll remember. Â --D-y
>
> What the hell do you propose? Â WADA and the UCI are not even doing the
> "full-court-press" on doping yet, but big names are getting nabbed.
> WADA even has the right to target specific riders, yet they don't even
> bother to do so. They don't need to. Â The fish practically jump into
> the net!
Leaving aside anyone else, Ivan Basso has been kept out of racing since
the beginning of July because a name which someone wrongly thought to be
the name of his dog was found on a list. That's a /very/ different thing
from failing a blood test, and definitely doesn't count as 'jumping in
the net'. Indeed the only person who, on the evidence available to us so
far, seems to have 'jumped into the net' this year is Landis, although
others do have questions to answer.
But, as I've said elsewhere, Pound isn't a cyclist. He doesn't care what
happens to cycling, and if what happens to cycling is very bad and very
unpleasant indeed, that gives him a bigger stick to shake at other
sports. You really need to take everything WADA say about cycling with a
bushel of salt.
--
[email protected] (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/
;; Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us
;; many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets.
;; Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
;; Tom Stoppard, Artist Descending A Staircase
[email protected] ('[email protected]') wrote:
>> Excluding racers from the Tour for (supposedly; were these coded
>> names?) being on a list?
>> Wow, that would make setting someone up so easy-- you might not even
>> have to have any doping actually taking place! But who cares, as we
>> fight against the scourge of drugs!
>>
>> Dork Pound is selling an illusion. Some foolish people are buying it.
>> Big, big problem.
>>
>> The line "I had to burn that village to save it" offered by another
>> poster really sums up the insanity. Refers to another situation where
>> piling up bodies didn't solve any problems, if you'll remember. Â --D-y
>
> What the hell do you propose? Â WADA and the UCI are not even doing the
> "full-court-press" on doping yet, but big names are getting nabbed.
> WADA even has the right to target specific riders, yet they don't even
> bother to do so. They don't need to. Â The fish practically jump into
> the net!
Leaving aside anyone else, Ivan Basso has been kept out of racing since
the beginning of July because a name which someone wrongly thought to be
the name of his dog was found on a list. That's a /very/ different thing
from failing a blood test, and definitely doesn't count as 'jumping in
the net'. Indeed the only person who, on the evidence available to us so
far, seems to have 'jumped into the net' this year is Landis, although
others do have questions to answer.
But, as I've said elsewhere, Pound isn't a cyclist. He doesn't care what
happens to cycling, and if what happens to cycling is very bad and very
unpleasant indeed, that gives him a bigger stick to shake at other
sports. You really need to take everything WADA say about cycling with a
bushel of salt.
--
[email protected] (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/
;; Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us
;; many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets.
;; Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
;; Tom Stoppard, Artist Descending A Staircase