In article <
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Scott <
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> On May 5, 11:05 pm, Ryan Cousineau <[email protected]> wrote:
> > In article <[email protected]>,
> > Hell and High Water <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > 1. Di Luca
> >
> > > 2. Cunego
> >
> > > 3. Savoldelli
> >
> > > 4. Simoni
> >
> > > What do you think?
> >
> > I'm impressed you spelled all of their names correctly.
> >
> > I'm going to pick David Millar for the win, because I believe that GT
> > performance this year will largely come down to surviving the WADA
> > gauntlet, and Millar is the only rider who we know for sure is clean.
> >
> > He's where I draw the line,
> So, how do you know he's clean? 'Cause he says so? Hell, lot's of
> riders have told us they're clean and come up busted, and others have
> told us they were clean, never tested positive, and yet there are
> plenty of folks prepared to convict on mere suspicion.
>
> The ONE thing in Millar's favor is that until he tests positive, no
> one suspects him. That doesn't necessarily mean he's clean.
>
> Having said that, I think he's clean, too. I just don't buy your
> decleration that we KNOW he's clean.
Sorry, Scott, you've come in medeas res to this joke, so I don't blame
you for not getting it.
After his comeback, he made some statements about his feelings on the
subject of doping that might have been even more noble and justified if
he hadn't just been busted for EPO.
Anyway, Millar did his comeback TdF in 2006, and came in 17th in the
prologue. This thin gruel led me to say this:
Also, with Brian Lafferty's help, we will institute the "Millar Line."
Anyone who beats David Millar in a flat TT (barring force majeur) is
clearly doping.
ca n'est pas naturellement,
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.bicycles.racing/browse_frm/thread/9224
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Since after all, anyone who could beat a now-clean Millar in the event
he specialized in (prologues) must be cheating...
To my immense enjoyment, the "Millar Line" has become an rbr trope for
various things to do with racing and doping, including unusually good
results, general mockery of the recovering-doper aesthetic (10/10 for
not cheating, minus several million for self-righteous 'tude about
something you were doing not that long ago...), the seemingly random
nature of actual WADA tests and gym-teacher accusations, and so forth.
But yes, we have no idea if David is clean, but he seems so sincere
about his current reformed status that it really deserves a good poke
every so often.
Also, since I like to drink, I have a special affinity for a rider whose
slogan is "It's Millar Time!"
LIVEDRUNK,
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Ryan Cousineau
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"I don't want kids who are thinking about going into mathematics
to think that they have to take drugs to succeed." -Paul Erdos