Cadel attacks and wins!

[Crankyfeet]

At the moment he just offers up the bromide soundbite that they all do.

Which shows he's just as dirty as the rest... or is aware that he has fellow pros that know about his doping in the past.

If he was riding clean at present... he could be dominating like Merckx or the Badger in a clean peleton. His cliche utterances seem to suggest he doesn't want to appear like a lying hypocrite to his pro mates.

 

[poulidor]

Was it Moreni who participated in a protest against dopers, and then tested positive himself? If he didn't test positive later, is there much difference between what he did and what Cadel has said now?.

Moreni didn't take part at the protest like others did. That was pointed when the Moreni case come out! Maybe he was not confortable to sit with the "rioters" after having used a patch on his balls.

 

[TheDarkLord]

Moreni didn't take part at the protest like others did. That was pointed when the Moreni case come out! Maybe he was not confortable to sit with the "rioters" after having used a patch on his balls.

Thanks for the correction pouli! My bad.

 

[heinkel12]

You have to reserve judgement. He was on Saeco, Mapei and TMobile.

He said the testing procedures were working, and the UCI was doing a good job (during 2007 tour).

Cyclingheroes interviewed him when he was at TMobile, and Cadel said he was working with Ferrari.

His manager is Tony Rominger.

There are lots in that, which one could consider incongruent with a clean rider. He may be clean, and have had to compromise his PR communications so he does not make a rod for his own back. He may have accepted injections at those teams without querying what was in the cartridge. He may not have many options for an agent.

But he does not act like a cleanskin, say Mcgee. But even Brad Mcgee has worked for riders, and been a leadout man, chased breaks, for riders who were probably compromised. There are no 7 degrees of separation, only incest.

He did leave T-Mobile under a cloud though. Is there any news about what happened there?

 

[thunder]

He did leave T-Mobile under a cloud though. Is there any news about what happened there?

conflicting stuff. I think CH had a line, the 2004 Vuelta, all TMob bar Evans and Zabel were on bad transfusions and had to retire because of food poisoning.

You have to worry when a team is struck down with "food poisoning" yet the soigneurs, mechanics, managers and sportive directors are perfectly healthy. It suggests something nefarious.

And the line coming out was Evans and Zabel were exonerated. They stayed in. Konecny may have too.

 

[Powerful Pete]

Yup, that whole food poisoning episode was a bit... suspect...