Just read an article about Jorg Jaksche which equated cycling to soccer - saying that if equal rules were applied then anyone deemed to have faked a foul would be suspended from the team pending an enquiry.
Quite true I say!
It's got to the point where if you want your competition removed you drop a hypodermic needle in the trash then pull Pat McQuaid aside and say "listen Pat, I saw so-and-so drop something suspicious in that dustbin" (if of course some paparazzi scumbag didn't photograph you dropping the needle and rats you out in the first place). So-and-so will then be fired from his team and off the bike for at least 6 months while various labs, political organisations, sporting bodies and the media have a good moan.
I would love to have a fair TdF with no drugs but I would have preferred to watch a 2006 TdF where Basso/Ullrich/Sevilla took part. Isn't hindsight a b!tch?
Knee jerk reactions like the Operation Puerto only make the problem worse - innocent riders are without teams and income, sponsors are without star riders, team managers put year long plans in place only to have them smashed by rumours and heresay, the world thinks all cyclists are druggies etc.
There has to be a better way.
Quite true I say!
It's got to the point where if you want your competition removed you drop a hypodermic needle in the trash then pull Pat McQuaid aside and say "listen Pat, I saw so-and-so drop something suspicious in that dustbin" (if of course some paparazzi scumbag didn't photograph you dropping the needle and rats you out in the first place). So-and-so will then be fired from his team and off the bike for at least 6 months while various labs, political organisations, sporting bodies and the media have a good moan.
I would love to have a fair TdF with no drugs but I would have preferred to watch a 2006 TdF where Basso/Ullrich/Sevilla took part. Isn't hindsight a b!tch?
Knee jerk reactions like the Operation Puerto only make the problem worse - innocent riders are without teams and income, sponsors are without star riders, team managers put year long plans in place only to have them smashed by rumours and heresay, the world thinks all cyclists are druggies etc.
There has to be a better way.
