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"Simon Brooke" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Lafferty ('[email protected]') wrote:
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>> "Zak" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>>> Well in France, at least, the sport is dead. Since 1998 Festina doping
>>> scandal the numbers of "licences" at the Cycling French Federation
>>> decreased year after year. Parents don't want they kids to practice
>>> such a tainted sport. And young amateurs are more and more reluctant
>>> to become pro. Indeed it concerns just one country yet one country
>>> which used to be important in this discipline and is now a non factor.
>>> You might blame the medias, but anyway, doping killed this sport in
>>> France.
>>
>> Just wait. A French rider may well win the Tour this year. ;-)
>
> Allors! C'est un cochon de vol!
>
> I mean, I've a soft spot for Thomas Voeckler, but come on!
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Perhaps he had Sany Casar in mind. It would be poetic if Cedric V. won.
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> in message <R%[email protected]>, B.
> Lafferty ('[email protected]') wrote:
>
>> "Zak" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>> news:[email protected]...
>>> Well in France, at least, the sport is dead. Since 1998 Festina doping
>>> scandal the numbers of "licences" at the Cycling French Federation
>>> decreased year after year. Parents don't want they kids to practice
>>> such a tainted sport. And young amateurs are more and more reluctant
>>> to become pro. Indeed it concerns just one country yet one country
>>> which used to be important in this discipline and is now a non factor.
>>> You might blame the medias, but anyway, doping killed this sport in
>>> France.
>>
>> Just wait. A French rider may well win the Tour this year. ;-)
>
> Allors! C'est un cochon de vol!
>
> I mean, I've a soft spot for Thomas Voeckler, but come on!
>
> --
> [email protected] (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/
>
> 'You cannot put "The Internet" into the Recycle Bin.'
>
Perhaps he had Sany Casar in mind. It would be poetic if Cedric V. won.
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