Disco booted from ProTour!!!!

In article om,
"RicodJour" wrote:


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.

Or were lucky enough to not get caught first.

--
tanx,
Howard

Never take a tenant with a monkey.

remove YOUR SHOES to reply, ok?

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

Dumbass,

That just means we like you.

Bob Schwartz

Howard Kveck writes:

In article om,
"RicodJour" wrote:


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.

Or were lucky enough to not get caught first.


Moshe: The good news is I got the ****** down to the Eleven

The bad news is that Adultery is still in, and Number Eleven now says
''Thou shalt not get found out''

http://azurservers.com/flag/11.gif

--
Le vent à Dos
Davey Crockett [No 4Q to reply]
X-Shakespea "If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me
without my stir." -- Macbeth, I.3

In article
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com,
Howard Kveck wrote:

In article om,
"RicodJour" wrote:


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.

Or were lucky enough to not get caught first.

As RJ was saying, they are all guilty. Only reason any
particular one does not get `caught', is that it does
not suit any of the others at that particular time.

--
Michael Press

Keith wrote:
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...

Probably matters to the other Disco riders who do the Classics, but
since the GT organizers want to leave the ProTour anyway, does it
matter all that much to LANCE, Brunyeel, and Basso? I mean, Basso
only cares about doing the Giro-Tour double...

~bob

Donald Munro wrote:
RonSonic wrote:
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?

Not to mention that quaint old tradition of requiring evidence of guilt.

*chuckle* That old chestnut... So passe...

~bob

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.

There you have it. I really doubt there is much more to it.

These are odd kinds of "gentleman" who
make "gentlemans agreements" to exclude riders
based on hearsay and innuendo after all.

I heard a TV talking head call OJ a "gentleman." I guess "gentle"
these days includes nearly decapitating your ex-wife, so why not
blacklisting, rigging, lying, and cheating?

Steven L. Sheffield wrote:
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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stevens at veloworks dot com
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ess ay ell tea ell ay kay ee sea eye tee why you ti ay aitch
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Dammit, Steven... now you've gone and ruined all the celebrations these
knuckleheads with the poor reading comprehension skills were having.
They completely glossed right over the facts and thought that Discovery
lost their UCI ProTour license. Idiots.

wrote:

It's the Girls With Clean Underwear Club (GWCU).


Thanks.

I am a little confused here, what authority does the IPCT have....??

IPCT is kicking Discovery out, because Basso is involved Operation
Puerto. Personally I think the whole Operation Puerto investigation is
just another example of guilt by inuendo.

Steven L. Sheffield wrote:
On 12/8/06 11:49 PM, in article
, "
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.




--
Steven L. Sheffield
stevens at veloworks dot com
bellum pax est libertas servitus est ignoratio vis est
ess ay ell tea ell ay kay ee sea eye tee why you ti ay aitch
aitch tee tea pea colon [for word] slash [four ward] slash double-you
double-yew double-ewe dot flahute dot com [foreword] slash



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