Rasmussen out

Dropped by Rabobank. Apparently he lied to Rabobank about his whereabouts as
regards the missed tests....

On 25 Jul, 22:43, "wafflycat" wrote:
Dropped by Rabobank. Apparently he lied to Rabobank about his whereabouts as
regards the missed tests....

Excellent!

Where did you get that from Wafflycat?

raisethe wrote:

On 25 Jul, 22:43, "wafflycat" wrote:
Dropped by Rabobank. Apparently he lied to Rabobank about his whereabouts as
regards the missed tests....

Excellent!

Where did you get that from Wafflycat?

Possibly from
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/cycling/6916698.stm

I wonder why he claimed to be in Mexico when he was actually in Italy...

Cheers,
Luke


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"raisethe" wrote in message
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On 25 Jul, 22:43, "wafflycat" wrote:
Dropped by Rabobank. Apparently he lied to Rabobank about his whereabouts
as
regards the missed tests....


http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/othe...ng/6916698.stm


Man, that's really really bad news.

in message . com, raisethe
') wrote:

On 25 Jul, 22:43, "wafflycat" wrote:
Dropped by Rabobank. Apparently he lied to Rabobank about his
whereabouts as regards the missed tests....

Excellent!

Where did you get that from Wafflycat?

The BBC are reporting it. Cycling News are not, yet...

As for excellent, this is as bad as it gets. Now we have Contador (ex
Astana/Liberty Seguros/Sainz/Fuentes) in yellow. Where will this end?

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;; First they came for the asylum seekers,
;; and I did not speak out because I was not an asylum seeker.
;; Then they came for the gypsies,
;; and I did not speak out because I was not a gypsy...
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Ekul Namsob wrote:

I wonder why he claimed to be in Mexico when he was actually in Italy...

An administrative error, no doubt.

Daniele

D.M. Procida wrote:
Ekul Namsob wrote:

I wonder why he claimed to be in Mexico when he was actually in Italy...

An administrative error, no doubt.


These Latin countries are all much of a muchness and easily confused ;-)

Tony

raisethe wrote:
On 25 Jul, 22:43, "wafflycat" wrote:
Dropped by Rabobank. Apparently he lied to Rabobank about his whereabouts as
regards the missed tests....

Excellent!

Where did you get that from Wafflycat?


From a message several posts earlier?

John B

"wafflycat" wrote in message
...
Dropped by Rabobank. Apparently he lied to Rabobank about his whereabouts
as regards the missed tests....

Once again you have to question the timing. Rabobank have known about this
for some time. Why wait until Rasmussen is virtually guaranteed of winning
the tour before pulling the plug?

Præthön wrote:
"wafflycat" wrote in message
...
Dropped by Rabobank. Apparently he lied to Rabobank about his whereabouts
as regards the missed tests....

Once again you have to question the timing. Rabobank have known about this
for some time. Why wait until Rasmussen is virtually guaranteed of winning
the tour before pulling the plug?



I notice that the BBC is now saying Astana were asked to withdraw
whereas early reporting implied it was the team's choice. Perhaps
Rabobank were leaned on too.

Whatever it is I feel sorry for the remaining field. Whoever wins it
will now be a hollow victory which is not what winning the TdeF should
be about.

OTOH I think in many ways the TdeF organisers have bought this on
themselves. For years they have tried to play the drug cheat card to
their advantage with all the games they played around Armstrong right up
to their triumphal announcements by L'Equipe (which is owned by the TdeF
organisers) last year of the discredited retrospective Armstrong tests
of the 1999 Tour. L'Equipe also seems to be hand in hand with LNDD on
the premature leaking and rumour mill of testing. As a trio the
organisers, L'Equipe and LNDD have been actively playing with fire which
is now coming back to burn them badly.

How many sponsors will want to come back for next year's Tour?

Tony