Riis out of the Tour record books

I see that the Tour de France organisers have wiped Riis win off their
record. Apparently, they are thinking of removing Zabel's name too. I
wonder if they will ever get to Virenque, who has remained in their
records despite his confession 5 years ago.

-ilan

On Jun 7, 5:05 pm, wrote:
I see that the Tour de France organisers have wiped Riis win off their
record. Apparently, they are thinking of removing Zabel's name too. I
wonder if they will ever get to Virenque, who has remained in their
records despite his confession 5 years ago.

-ilan

I can't see how Prudhomme could award the 1996 yellow to Ullrich or
Virenque, so the 1996 winner will be blank. This must disappoint
Pereiro.

* a écrit
I see that the Tour de France organisers have wiped Riis win off their
record. Apparently, they are thinking of removing Zabel's name too. I
wonder if they will ever get to Virenque, who has remained in their
records despite his confession 5 years ago.


But Spotted Dick is one of "US" whereas Riis and Zabel are not

--
Le vent à Dos
Davey Crockett [No 4Q to reply]

On Jun 7, 10:05 am, wrote:
I see that the Tour de France organisers have wiped Riis win off their
record. Apparently, they are thinking of removing Zabel's name too. I
wonder if they will ever get to Virenque, who has remained in their
records despite his confession 5 years ago.

Which doper gets to be the winner? (Choose your country of birth
carefully!)

(Maybe Poulidor can finally win a Tour!?!?)

Yo, blanks in the official record books. What will be the next self-
inflicted black eye for cycling?

Contrast with USA football:

http://www.profootballhof.com/hof/me...?player_id=195

What a wonderful world... not to gloss over the question of "having an
impact on results", which got ol' Charley Hustle kept out of
Cooperstown for life, so far.
--D-y

On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 15:05:14 -0000, wrote:

I see that the Tour de France organisers have wiped Riis win off their
record.

Where is that record located ?

Apparently, they are thinking of removing Zabel's name too. I
wonder if they will ever get to Virenque, who has remained in their
records despite his confession 5 years ago.

-ilan

On Jun 7, 9:16 am, " wrote:
On Jun 7, 10:05 am, wrote:

I see that the Tour de France organisers have wiped Riis win off their
record. Apparently, they are thinking of removing Zabel's name too. I
wonder if they will ever get to Virenque, who has remained in their
records despite his confession 5 years ago.

Which doper gets to be the winner? (Choose your country of birth
carefully!)

(Maybe Poulidor can finally win a Tour!?!?)

Yo, blanks in the official record books. What will be the next self-
inflicted black eye for cycling?

Contrast with USA football:

http://www.profootballhof.com/hof/me...?player_id=195




Dumbass -


There's not a lot the NFL can do about that situation. Dude was
acquitted in the criminal trial.

Add to that they don't want to start playing the role of moral
arbiter, otherwise there's a lot of other guys they'd have to boot
out. Unlike cycling, they understand that sort of attention is bad for
business. Better to let sleeping dogs lie.

That's a fairly jackass thing for the TdF organizers to do. Why
haven't they taken Anquetil's name off?


thanks,

K. Gringioni.

On Jun 7, 12:16 pm, " wrote:

Yo, blanks in the official record books. What will be the next self-
inflicted black eye for cycling?

It might start looking like a censored letter coming out of a prison
camp.

More to the point, what black eye? That's so negative. Newspeak
would refer to Riis as the Tour's 1996 unchampion.

It's all double plus good to me.

R

On Jun 7, 4:05 pm, wrote:
I see that the Tour de France organisers have wiped Riis win off their
record. Apparently, they are thinking of removing Zabel's name too. I
wonder if they will ever get to Virenque, who has remained in their
records despite his confession 5 years ago.

Let's just erase all the records, otherwise they'll look pretty
patchy. According to http://cyclisme.dopage.free.fr/courses/tdf-palmares.htm,
all but *three* Tour winners since 1949 have been implicated in doping
related activity programs at some point during their careers.

The clean winners:

Federico Bahamontes
Lucien Van Impe
Greg LeMond

Jeff

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Yo, blanks in the official record books. What will be the next self-
inflicted black eye for cycling?

....
Not sure WHAT the official record book is for Tour winners. It would seem
that the Tour organizer is not the one vested with the right to overturn
results and Pruddie seemed to agree with that. If they ever strike gold
coins for the Tour winners, perhaps that one will be blank on one side and
have a picture of a horse's ass on the other (so you can use it for heads
and tails) - they'll call it the Dick Pound coin.

Or maybe they will all be highly malleable, so you can return each to be
restruck when necessary. Or the year on one side and 'Whatever' on the
other...


--
Curtis L. Russell
Odenton, MD (USA)
Just someone on two wheels...

On Jun 7, 2:58 pm, Jeff Jones wrote:
The clean winners:

Federico Bahamontes
Lucien Van Impe
Greg LeMond

(with respect): But Lemond's instant performance recovery? The "iron
shot heard 'round the world"?

IOW, in light of recent revelations, Lemond looks no cleaner than
any. --D-y