limerickman said:
Ras's own words - as reported by Cycling News
"Rasmussen explained his non-availability over the past year: "I have one [warning] from last year, and the ones from March, where I pure and simply forgot to send in my second quarter information to the UCI.
"They immediately issued a warning on the 24th of March, even though the information they had on me went until the 31st of that same month. I received another one [warning] ... the 26th or 29th of June this year, from the UCI, I received one from the Danish federation as well, because they get their information from the same UCI database. If the database is not updated correctly then they will not know, and obviously, I might not be there." He said this accounted for four separate warnings from the UCI and Danish Cycling Federation combined."
Yed but in actuality it seems 1 was a verbal warnign from UCI for late submission of whereabouts, 2nd in june this year was written warning for late submission.
the other 2 at present I am not certain but it seems these were missed doping tests from the DCF.
I would just like to know though why he missed them, if he was late by a day or so updating the UCI and because of that the whereabouts database was not updated and so the DCF didn't realise he wasn't in Denmark and Ras didn'y realise that they were looking for him then ..... there is a possibility that this is just one big **** up due to the fact the Ras is **** at his book work - this is a crime but not one that deserves this level of punishment.
I will give you an example, I as a director have to submit forms to Inland Revenue, Companies House and HMRC if I am late by a day then I get a small fine, but also there may then be some delay before the information I send becomes available for public viewing. So people may mistakenly think I still havent sent in my info.
Now yes it is correct to fine me but could you imgine my horror if my government struck my company off the register, disqualified me from being a director and sent me to jail for being a day late !!!!!!
Now this is kinda what has happened in this case. It is very very strict.
I also appreciate that Rasmussen may be purposely manipulating the system during June with his 3 licenses so that he has a viable excuse at every turn to be non present when confronted with doping tests.
Altho Prudholme has said that it has reached the stage where innocent before proof no longer definately applies, I do think that is a statement which is moving away from democracy and more towards facism and is likely due to the complete loss of control that all major cycling federations have on the system.
If ASO and Prudholme had any balls they would not run the race again until they feel that a high level of control over the teams and their riders had been regained.
I do feel the massive loss of earnings by not having a tour de france next year would seriously shake up the entire sport and although I would miss the spectacle, this year has left me seriously p*ssed off. It has been probably the best cycling for many years maybe since fignon and Lemond or Indurain, Bugno and Chiappuci but it has ended in complete unsatisfaction.
I truly hope that Cadel Evans can some how gain 20-odd seconds tomorrow to nip it even tho this is near to impossible because there is very little in me that believes Contador or Discovery are clean cyclists.
Also there is much less in me after this tour that believes Armstrong is clean, I always gave him the benefit of doubt in arguments but after this tour and with his association to Ferrari I just do not credit it.
If Ras doped then so did Armstrong period.
