Disco booted from ProTour!!!!

http://www.velonews.com/news/fea/11301.0.html

Fat fxck Johan, Thom W, and King Uni-baller are left holding the bag.
Bravo!

writes:

http://www.velonews.com/news/fea/11301.0.html

Fat fxck Johan, Thom W, and King Uni-baller are left holding the bag.
Bravo!

Well, vindication of sorts

Remember how y'all (well, some of you) slammed Davey when he brought
the subject up?

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On 8 Dec 2006 22:49:02 -0800, wrote:

http://www.velonews.com/news/fea/11301.0.html

Fat fxck Johan, Thom W, and King Uni-baller are left holding the bag.
Bravo!

Wow...that probably means that the word is that Basso is guilty, if
anyone ever had doubts about it. That could make the 2007 TDF
interesting if Basso races, everyone will league agains him and DSC.
Although yesterday's decision paves the way for the grand tours to
prevent DSC to run if they have Basso in their ranks. Bad news for
Ullrich too...

Keith wrote:
Wow...that probably means that the word is that Basso is guilty, if
anyone ever had doubts about it.

Or the other teams see an opportunity to exclude a potential winner and
give themselves a better chance. These are odd kinds of "gentleman" who
make "gentlemans agreements" to exclude riders based on hearsay and
innuendo after all.

On 8 Dec 2006 22:49:02 -0800, wrote:

http://www.velonews.com/news/fea/11301.0.html

Fat fxck Johan, Thom W, and King Uni-baller are left holding the bag.
Bravo!

Please explain this for the simple minded - a team can be excluded if the others
get together and decide that one of its riders has cooties?

Isn't there a procedure for determining if a rider should be excluded? And
doesn't that process involve arbitration hearings and stuff?

Ron

On 8 Dec 2006 22:49:02 -0800, wrote:

http://www.velonews.com/news/fea/11301.0.html

Fat fxck Johan, Thom W, and King Uni-baller are left holding the bag.
Bravo!

Lefévère and others are such hypocrites.

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Lefévère

Your effort of placing all the right diacritics is commendable, but in
this case I believe it's just Lefevere. Laurent Lefèvre.

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Ewoud Dronkert wrote:
John Forrest Tomlinson wrote:
Lefévère

Your effort of placing all the right diacritics is commendable, but in
this case I believe it's just Lefevere. Laurent Lefèvre.

I thought he was talking about green fairies ...
;-))

On 12/8/06 11:49 PM, in article
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wrote:

http://www.velonews.com/news/fea/11301.0.html

Fat fxck Johan, Thom W, and King Uni-baller are left holding the bag.
Bravo!




Errr ... No.

"A decision made at a special meeting of the International Professional
Cycling Teams (IPCT) group on Friday could threaten the future status of the
Discovery Channel team."

"The group voted to exclude Discovery from its membership over its signing
of Italian Ivan Basso, who is implicated in the Operación Puerto inquiry,
according to a source that attended the meeting in Brussels. However, the
vote does not mean that the American team loses its UCI ProTour license,
which enables it to race in all of the ProTour events."


What part of ³the vote does not mean that the American team loses its UCI
ProTour license, which enables it to race in all of the ProTour events²
indicates that they were booted from the ProTour?

They were just booted from the Internation Professional Cycling Teams group,
which really serves no function whatsoever.




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Donald Munro wrote:
Keith wrote:
Wow...that probably means that the word is that Basso is guilty, if
anyone ever had doubts about it.

Or the other teams see an opportunity to exclude a potential winner and
give themselves a better chance. These are odd kinds of "gentleman" who
make "gentlemans agreements" to exclude riders based on hearsay and
innuendo after all.

A gentleman lives and dies by his reputation. The "I've been ruined!"
exclamation seen in bad movies and books not only refers to their
finances, but also, primarily, their reputation.

If a gentleman can avoid scandal, while schtupping maids, harlots, and
strumpets by the score, appear at society and church functions while
sparing no effort to destroy his business and personal enemies, and in
general successfully conduct their double life in private, that, sir,
is a gentleman!

A violation of a gentleman's agreement should come as no surprise to
anyone. Particularly to the gentlemen who are outraged that they
weren't quick enough to violate the agreement themselves.

R