I'd like to say I'm ahead of my time but perusing this article I wrote over 7 years ago doesn't mention any performance enhancing drugs (other than in association with the Festina scandal of 1998). Even so, I still think the title is appropriate in the wake of the 1000 pages of evidence released by the USADA last week.
Robert Gesink when he still had a team to ride for
On a more serious note, I am fearful that Mr. Armstrong's wrongdoings could have a strongly negative long-term effect on the sport of cycling, even if his crimes were committed a long time ago. One of the sport's long time and strongest sponsors, Dutch bank Rabobank, announced Friday that they were pulling out of the sport effective immediately as a result of this latest doping controversy. They no longer believe that cycling has the ability to police itself. Now, they don't mention how they turned a blind eye to Michael Rasmussen or Denis Menchov's doping issues and apparently some guy on some other team was the straw that broke the camel's back but whatever the reason, it's not good for the immediate future of the sport. And as long as the UCI ineffectively remains in charge, I tend to agree with them that the sport will not be clean. This has been going on for decades and has been public since the Festina scandal of 1998 which was followed by Operation Puerto and then the Rasmussen and Floyd Landis mess and then Contador and now Lance. I don't think anyone who got on the podium during the Lance 7 year reign of terror hasn't also been implicated at some point. So yeah, I don't know what's going to happen. Personally I wish they would just all turn a blind eye and get doped to the gills again because all this press is ruining the sport and riders are still not riding clean. But maybe someone will come up with some way to better convince riders to ride clean. I don't know. F Lance.
Look at all the comments you used to get.
Funny how wrong you were about the Yankees though.
F Basso!
Posted by: LegFuJohnson | October 25, 2012 at 03:29 PM
I know. I'm not happy about it.
Posted by: Bill | October 29, 2012 at 04:14 PM