Doping part 3
Here we go again, motherfucker ! I’d thought i’d start things of with a bang and i guess i got you attention. I’ve written a few things about doping in my little blog and it all has been linked with the Tour de France and so is this post. I really thought that Alexandre Vinokourov’s stupid efforts to win the Tour de France was the last we all, would have to hear about doping and the Tour de France, but hell no !
Along comes a Italian by the name of Cristian Moreni who’s merits at best is a stage win in any of the other races and not Le Tour de France. This guy gets tested on the 11th stage between Marseille and Montpellier and have excessive doses of testosterone in his system from the “A” sample.
The fun thing about it is that his team Cofidis made a protest against doping on the start of the 16th stage together with the following teams : Agritubel, AG2r, Francaise des Jeux, Bouygues Telecom, Credit Agricole, Gerolsteiner and T-Mobile. Surely they didn’t see that coming, did they ?!
I think it’s good that teams work actively against doping, but all that work is somehow blown away by riders within these teams, testing positive for doping. In this case two riders, Sinkewitz (T-Mobile) & Moreni (Cofidis), but still it’s not good for the image of the teams, their movement, wisely named, Movement for a Credible Cycling (MPCC).
This positive “A” sample by Moreni shows that the MPCC teams do not have that much control of their riders as they wish they had. All of a sudden it doesn’t become as credible anymore.
I think it’s sad, just really sad.
Tags: Doping, Stupid Things
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July 25th, 2007 at 8:59 pm
Hmm.. maybe an instant two-year ban for the TEAM (including the sports director) if anyone gets caught doping? Or maybe the team director is automatically ejected and banned if any team member tests positive. It’s not that I want to punish the innocent, but I think there needs to be a stronger incentive for management to really enforce a no-doping policy.