whiteboytrash said:
But Cadel rode for Mapei ! in Europe ! and Saceo and Telekom..... you'd only need to add Festina and USPS to that list to have the top 5 drug teams of all time and Cadel rode with 3 of them !
worst teams,
ONCE/Liberty Seguros/Wurth
Banesto/Illes Balears/Caisse d'Epargne
Astana
USPS/Discovery
Euskaltel Euskadi
Telekom/T-mobile
Saunier Duval
CSC
Festina
Rabobank
plenty of dirty teams. He was really not part of Saeco, he just used them for a few races when riding with Volvo Cannondale.
Mapei, yes, they have had a program there.
If Evans was submitting to Doctor Lothar Heinrich, and just putting his arm out like Jaksche, I dont know how he could have been free from implication in that team.
I am not defending Evans, he does himself no favouts spewing the omerta line "the tests work, the UCI is doing a good job catching the cheats".
That just protects the status quo, which in my view, means he has some vested interest in the peloton status as it is now.
With the Omerta, you cannot just shoot from the mouth, but you can talk in code, and there is no need to praise the UCI. Ofcourse, you should not make a rod for your own back, because you might need the UCI to be in your corner in the future, but you do not sumbit yourself to venal platitudes.