KOHL caught by AFLD !
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Schumacher's roommate... Last week Holczer said that the anti-doping programs of Garmin, CSC and Astana (and Columbia, too??) were just educating their riders on how much they could dope without getting caught. He at least got half of it right, as his riders obviously didn't know.
Good scoop Poully ! Didn't Kimmage quote how farked Kohl looked at the end of the d'Huze stage ? and that was a good thing...... well bad news for Evans again....... was this for CERA ? I reckon seeing Kohl had a higher overall placing he chanced his arm and kept using after Ricco... these french drug rats are good ! and I thought Landis and Lance said they are dodgy...... yeah right.....poulidor said:
I have to say the AFLD have done a sterling job. They really go after these blokes...... although I did have Kohl in my "clean" file but just shows you never can tell.... anymore to come ?poulidor said:
And I recall someone harping about the Spaniards being the dirtiest riders...appears the Germans are definitely giving them a run...
poulidor said:
This was really no surprise. Still, I'm sorry for Evans who lost a great support rider - and it would've been interesting to see his results next year without CERA...
Actually...when I think about it, Kohl might have become a similar disappointment as Popo this season. Then we can start discussing (again) why Popo's performance dropped so much...
I'm not surprised at all. Especially after Schumacher positive (which I've also expected).
As a matter of fact, I won't be surprised even if they find Vansevenant positive... That's what the sport is like.
But these positives can't change the fact the Tour was most exciting in years. Despite unusual performance from Cancellara and Voigt (and CSC team in general), we can say this year's Tour was cleaner than dozen of past Tours.
As a matter of fact, I won't be surprised even if they find Vansevenant positive... That's what the sport is like.
But these positives can't change the fact the Tour was most exciting in years. Despite unusual performance from Cancellara and Voigt (and CSC team in general), we can say this year's Tour was cleaner than dozen of past Tours.
Andrija said:
What was unusual about these performances?...sure cancellara sitting on the front up hills was *different*...but don't forget the guy has been the world TT champ, a prerequisite of which is having the ability to push anaerobic threshold for a long time....don't also forget that he was away in the break so was able to ride at substantially less than threshold for awhile before being caught by the Voigt led bunch...then he took over doing the pace setting...he was blown by the last climb,
Voigt has been doing the same thing forever...the guys an animal...he maybe a doper, but I didn't see anything in this years TDF that he hasn't done before...no real surprises with the rest of the team as well..again, they may all be dopers, but I didn't see anything that struck me as *that* unusual from them...maybe Sastre's last TT was at the very top of performance possibilities for him...but Evans didn't perform to expectations...
