Weekend wrapups:
Prospect results here.
ESG results here. Alejandro Guzman silver in the crit, 4th in the road race. Jared Bunde silver in the road race, 5th in the TT. Scot Willingham 4th in the TT. Erin Dyer 3rd in the road race.
Monson? Thurman Monson?
CRCA results on the photo pages. Mystery man in vintage clothing wins race.
Toto back in form. Toto resists turning around and stealing a biscuit.
Toto throws out his meat smoothie bottle.
“Ooo ooo, a camera! Lemme get the guns out!”
How does everyone feel about Floyd now? It’s looking worse.
Oh, even though Anthony Accardi proved to be the most testosterone-iffic, he’s not racing Medford, so the free entry goes to the first to write in. There. There’s your contest.
ARMSTRONG: I mean, I think my reaction is that. I mean, I’m not going to
more riders cleared? Why were they suspended in the first place again??
http://velonews.com/race/int/articles/10618.0.html
Accuses French lab of playing with Floyd’s samples. Says it’s same lab that issued claims against him and that they just want to get the Americans.
Yes, the French hate the Americans so much that they will destroy their own Tour.
Also said that if Floyd doped when he was a Postie, he would personally have kicked him off the team.
Why is it that only former Posties get caught, and so many of them. Hamilton, Heras, Landis?
Do you really believe that they developed bad habits only after leaving Lance?
And strange that Andreu gets canned after his court testimony against Lance is revealed.
Really sad about Floyd, he seemed to be the real deal, but Lance better shut up and go way before he’s brought down. Unfortunately he and his people control the sport in the US.
Operacion Puerto= Witch Hunt
The lab has no credibility because it continues to do one thing that totally destroys the entire process which is leak information all over.
When are we going to get to see pictures of premature celebration in the Prospect P 1 2 3 race?
We should be getting some later today. (Prospect pics, that is)
Jesus Manzano: "It gives you a lot of force and produces a sort of euphoria"
Gotta get some of those. They sound like a party.
Here’s what I’m thinking: A sack patch, a hit of Pot Belge and two Red Bulls. Yo get this party started riiiggghhttt!!!
Chris Chaput got 4th in the Tour de Toona cat 4 road race, 8th in the crit and 8th in the overall GC. Eric Berend got 11th in the Cat 3 road race. The road race course is gorgeous and so much fun and the crit course was awesome — I’ll definitely go back next year.
Hey Sack Patches, did you know a major side effect of taking testosterone and using the patches is sexual dysfunction? How’s that for euphoria?
you’ll be euphoric…you won’t care about the dysfunction…
hey if someone unattached (or riding for another team) showed up in a race wearing a ML kit, would you work with him, or kick his ass?
schmalz is trying to sucker people into buying them so he can make fun of them for being posers
I was only partly facetious…why would they want just anyone to show up in their uniform? it’s not like when you see someone in full Phonak or USPS circa 2002 kit & you can safely assume that they’re not really on that team 🙂
I mean, why is it that cycling is always targeted when I just read the other day that the IRONMAN time was just broken again – 8 hours 7 minutes and change. Are you going to say, " THAT GUY IS CLEAN?" I am willing to bet that person isn’t. It just pisses me off that WADA doesn’t target other sports as heavily as cycling.Like Triatheletes.
And what about those 150 other names from OPERACION PUERTO? I mean, did they all get exonerated without the pressure of the press or losing their contracts over speculation. Also, how is it that some of the cyclists implicated in OP are now exonerated and Ulrich isn’t?
I agree with Cippolini that WADA is getting out of hand – using the media to spin things their way, not cooperting with outside parties to validate testing and defining a judicial process that doesn’t mimic those of the the modern world.
I admit. an organization like WADA is needed but, they should rethink how they get information out (when and where), should use more than one testing facility in case equipment or process failure, should invest money into how supplements affect naturally created chemicals that aid in performance (EPO is not a supplement), and target all sports equally. I think FIFA must donate MILLIONS to WADA which is probably why you don’t see many soccer players implicated – hmm I have yet to find one in the last couple of years.
What sucks now is that all of these doping accusations are killing cyclingl though some are just while others are not. We are at a time in US cycling when getting sponsors is easier – and I can tell you with all this negative press, people and companies are going to invest elsewhere! Like FRISBEE GOLF. I am sure those guys are on drugs, just not the performance enhancing kind.
My crazy two cents for the day.
Top 15 Monson
Thanks again to Aaron Wolfe for giving me a great wheel!!!
Category 4 77 starters 56 miles
1 Matthew Theodore Pedros/K2/Wheelworks/E-caps Mashpee MA 2:24:31
2 Brett Cleaver Brooklyn Velo Force Brooklyn NY st
3 Jesus Correa Cyclonauts Racers Lawrence MA st
4 Ernest Tautkus st
5 Brad Ek NHCC/Team NH Concord NH st
6 Giovanni Marzot NEBC/Cycle Loft Concord MA st
7 Matthew Plumb Ithaca College Cycling Club Haverhill MA st
8 David Morse Somerville MA st
9 Gary Jaszewski Boston Scientific Cycling Club st
10 Jens Hillen Unattached Peterborough NH st
11 Carl Ring NHCC/ Team NH Rumney NH st
12 David Costa Cranford Bike Team/CTS Roselle Park NJ st
13 Tyson Parody NCC/BikeReg.com Keene NH st
14 Aaron Wolfe CRCA/Edgemont Capital Beacon NY st
15 Sean Soltysik Team Bike Alley Boylston MA st
I bet these are factory seconds…the pink bits are in the wrong place or something.
Stephen Badger of Sakonnet was 3rd in the 35+ with Titus Leung of Deno’s 9th. Cecelia Pleva of the Radical Media top ten in the women. This is a good event — nice course, showers at the venue.
Who the hell would wear that kit if they weren’t on the team?
People with man crushes on ken harris.
Ray I feel your pain man, but Doping accusations don’t kill the sport Dopers do.
As an addendum, it’s time to take off our rose colored glasses. The sport has always been rife with drugs. The Cannibal has had a positive test, read Paul Kimmages "Rough Ride" for 70’s style popping needles on the road doping. (Thank god for patches less some of these guys contract HIV) All the way back to the Pelissier Bros. Henri once to prove how cruel the tour was, shoved a fist ful of uppers and downers into the face of a reporter explaining that this is how riders get through the tour. In a world where people are always looking for the "advantage" why do we expect cycling to be any different? It’s a question of morals more than a crisis of sport.
Personally i’m looking to get the edge on the guy in front of me as I try to get my next beer. "Hey buddy isn’t that Lance Armstrong with Lindsey Lohan over there?"
retiree, why dont you tell that accusations theory to the guys @ Astana that lost Wurth and Liberty backing + got dumped on for the tour; or maybe the Communcat Valencia dudes that got ripped a new one based on what….a list? Both teams are now exonerated but where’s the accountability for what they’ve been put through. Guess what_There’s nothin they can do and that is whats killing our sport. Dopers kill us, there’s no question but the media witchhunt, fingerpointing, list crap is not only killing us but is a career ender. Astana will bounce back but what do you tell the 30 year old thats down to his last couple of tours and is in the best shape of his life only to be snuffed out without any basis on facts.
Maybe Lance slipped something in floyd’s beer, or had some doping fairy visit him in the night with a patch. Wait, hear me out! When did the alleged doping occur? 2 days after Lance got to France. All the guys who came closest but couldn’t beat him- Ullrich, Basso, etc, busted too. This makes him look untouchable, glorious that these guys are all killing themselves to beat him and they can’t even do it gassed. Lance is powerful now, and some people get like mob bosses when they gain power…
Maybe Lance slipped something in floyd’s beer, or had some doping fairy visit him in the night with a patch. Wait, hear me out! When did the alleged doping occur? 2 days after Lance got to France. All the guys who came closest but couldn’t beat him- Ullrich, Basso, etc, busted too. This makes him look untouchable, glorious that these guys are all killing themselves to beat him and they can’t even do it gassed. Lance is powerful now, and some people get like mob bosses when they gain power…
Maybe Lance slipped something in floyd’s beer, or had some doping fairy visit him in the night with a patch. Wait, hear me out! When did the alleged doping occur? 2 days after Lance got to France. All the guys who came closest but couldn’t beat him- Ullrich, Basso, etc, busted too. This makes him look untouchable, glorious that these guys are all killing themselves to beat him and they can’t even do it gassed. Lance is powerful now, and some people get like mob bosses when they gain power…
If you say it 3 times it doesn’t make it more true.
No, but 4 times makes you an ass
Gusev makes his argument to lead Disco @ Deutschland! McCrosson says he can climb pretty good too!
Can’t we get back to the important discussion: who would want to dress like schmalz in a ML replica kit?
maybe it’s just me but i think the purple on green would make my butt look big
FYI: tour of germany is on cycling.tv
…and furthermore what does ML do when the illustrious kit is spotted on the forbidden night ride! Does the kit have the badge?
yeah…seems like it would open up a legal can of worms
The media is painting an ugly picture, indeed, however I’ve been reading that the testing methods of detecting synth and natural testosterone are woefully inadequate and outdated when it comes to its use with riders of the modern peloton. From what I’ve been understanding there is no testing method for differences in Physiology and cheating techniques of today. WADA would never admit to this BTW!
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Don’t think a side effect when you first start is going to be a permanent effect. I have one med I didn’t sleep for more than 35 hours after two days of partial doses of it. WBR LeoP
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