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Today Equipe"s Editorial
On 10 Sep 2005 14:52:20 -0700, "Kurgan Gringioni"
wrote: Sandy wrote: Cheating, not biochemistry, is the part of competition that makes this no longer a sport. Dumbass - You've got your head up your ass. Biochemistry is now a part of *all* professional sports and has been for quite some time. Cycling is not unique in this regard. thanks, K. Gringioni. And the more you win, the more you are going to be in the spotlight regarding biochemistry. Either get used to it or get a new line of work. D |
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Today Equipe"s Editorial
Montesquiou wrote: LES NEGATIONS DE L'UCI The today editorial of l'Equipe. (september 10 2005) Sorry but in french ; may be someone can help in the translation Droussent must have written this in a hurry, cause it isn't much of an exercice de style. Maybe it's another indication of the superiority of French culture that good writers don't become sports writers. SEVENTEEN DAYS. Seventeen days, from tuesday August 23rd until yesterday, friday September 9th: that's how long it took the UCI and its president, Hein Verbruggen, to respond to the Equipe's revelations that EPO, a heavy-duty doping product banned since the early 90s, was present in six different urine samples taken from Lance Armstrong which had been preserved since the 1999 Tour de France. It's not unreasonable, since Lance Armstrong is after all merely the winner of the last seven Tour de France, and as such hold the record for the most prestigious and the signature event of the sport of bicycle racing, of which the UCI is the governing body. And the evidence published in the Equipe of August 23 didn't show anything vitally important: only that Armstrong had cheated to win his first Tour de France, and that throughout his career he had lied in asserting that he had never consummed any doping products in the exercise of his profession. Was such information worth enough to make the UCI and its president ponder fundamental questions on the rules and ethics of sport, and on the key issue: did Lance Armstrong cheat or lie? Of course not. The UCI and Mr. Verbruggen have other worries: who are responsible for this new attack on the integrity of bike racing and its foremost champion? Who leaked information that was supposed to remain confidential? By what right does Richard Pound, the president of the World Anti Doping Agency, express an opinion on the subject, etc? The attitude of the Union cycliste internationale has often perplexed us as to its prioritization of struggles. This time, we're confounded. Hein Verbruggen himself conceded, with a touch of fatalism, in the pages of yesterday's Figaro newspaper: "I already know there will be criticisms claiming that we are only attacking the procedure." Yes, when it comes to the Armstrong dossier, one can legitimately accuse the UCI and Mr. Verbruggen of not caring about the future of their sport, which is surely faced with serious trouble. Along the way, needless to say, they have also called into question the rigor and the objectivity of the Equipe's work. Our readers will juge. It's well known, of course: doping isn't an abomination among the peloton, but in the pages of newspapers. Claude Droussent |
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Today Equipe"s Editorial
B. Lafferty wrote:
Indeed. And Droussent is correct, the essential question is, "Lance Armstrong a-t-il triché ou menti ?" Tim Lines wrote: In much the same way that the essential question is "Who really killed Nicole Simpson?" Lafferty's grandfather (mother's side). |
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