Replies to post #2093 on Tour de France

[langostino]

Now we have Puerto x2

Now it turns out there's a whole second round of Puerto documents. In addition to the 500 page dossier, there's another 6,000 pages worth. In addition to the 58 cyclists (and 200 athletes in total) fingered in the first dossier, there are another 49 cyclists identified in this second batch.

Grand total now implicted: 107

http://www.velonews.com/news/fea/12141.0.html


Just a guess, but it wouldn't surprise me if Valverde and Vino are confirmed in this second batch.

I sure wish we'd have just gotten on with getting this stuff out in the open and dealing with it last year instead of so much coverup and b.s. As predicted, here we are days away from the start of the Giro and all heck is about to break loose. By the time it's all over, you have to wonder if we'll recognize anyone who's on the starting line in London for the Tour de France.

Is Levi Leipheimer clean? If he is, in the most improbable of improbables he might just roll up to the Prologue as the favorite to win.

[Frank Pembleton]

L... I think it is, what it is-- and why not? What difference does it make for those of us on the sidelines. He's not defending his Giro title with or without Bruyneel, with or without Riis, he's done. [period end of story]

-- if anything what if Basso is well aware of the politics involved in today's cycling and decided NOT to participate in the morass of legalities and NOT pay a team of lawyers in what's going to be a losing battle and NOT go into bankruptcy as a result.

...or, maybe he's anticipating a peloton wide amnesty since there are over one hundred riders being fingered.

Like... what's the big deal, here's a chunk of my DNA-- so f-off and let me race...???

IMHO, Basso quitting Discovery is about as close as we will get to an all out admission of guilt. The blood bags are his, and that's the only reason for his upcoming absence from the Giro.

Discovery is completely off the hook for this-- but CSC isn't, just google "Bjarne-Riis" for news and numerous stories of doping and cheating comes up, and this person runs a professionnal/corporate organisation...?

I figure the moment the DNA results are published on Ivan Basso is the moment Bjarne Riis is without a job.