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by **Chuck** » Fri Mar 25, 2011 5:17 pm

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/uci-app ... -for-sport

Who would have thought
:mrgreen:

by **BNA** » Fri Mar 25, 2011 5:29 pm

by **bosvit** » Fri Mar 25, 2011 5:29 pm

Thanks Chuck

I must say though I was shocked by one of the adverts on the right hand side of the picture. Colnago's new bike is called the EPO...... Then on closer inspection its the EPQ...

Well it made me laugh anyway

by **Chuck** » Fri Mar 25, 2011 6:19 pm

bosvit wrote:Thanks Chuck

I must say though I was shocked by one of the adverts on the right hand side of the picture. Colnago's new bike is called the EPO...... Then on closer inspection its the EPQ...

Well it made me laugh anyway

bosvit, I gotta pay more attention to your signature this time around :idea:

by **bosvit** » Fri Mar 25, 2011 7:47 pm

Chuck wrote:
bosvit wrote:Thanks Chuck

I must say though I was shocked by one of the adverts on the right hand side of the picture. Colnago's new bike is called the EPO...... Then on closer inspection its the EPQ...

Well it made me laugh anyway

bosvit, I gotta pay more attention to your signature this time around

Boom Boom! LOL

by **Mulger bill** » Fri Mar 25, 2011 10:06 pm

Couple more mainstream media HERE and HERE.

It's gonna take a while methinks.
If it's still grey in July will he be allowed to ride?

by **MichaelB** » Mon Mar 28, 2011 8:08 am

Mulger bill wrote:Couple more mainstream media HERE and HERE.

It's gonna take a while methinks.
If it's still grey in July will he be allowed to ride?

Sadly, yes. He can ride until the CAS decision :roll:

by **sogood** » Mon Mar 28, 2011 9:03 am

Yawn. Just let us know when CAS makes its ruling. Can't wait to see Contador out of the peloton for at least a year.

by **Drunkmonkey** » Mon Mar 28, 2011 1:20 pm

MichaelB wrote:
Mulger bill wrote:Couple more mainstream media HERE and HERE.

It's gonna take a while methinks.
If it's still grey in July will he be allowed to ride?

Sadly, yes. He can ride until the CAS decision

The TdF organisers could introduce an open investigation rule - which would exclude riders, teams or staff who are under open anti-doping rule violations. Its their race, they make the rules.

The Tour of California had previously had that rule in place, but dropped it for this years event to allow Armstrong to compete if he wanted to..............

by **MichaelB** » Mon Mar 28, 2011 2:19 pm

Or they could just not invite the team as per Astana days .... but that might be too easy.

Sadly, all the PT or is that WT teams get an auto invite - can they be uninvited ?

by **MichaelB** » Wed Mar 30, 2011 11:45 am

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/wada-an ... dor-appeal

WADA is now appealing separate to the UCI's appeal .

Hopefully if one appeal doesn't work, the other will.

Standy to watch the TdF on telly Bertie :twisted:

by **hannos** » Wed Mar 30, 2011 11:46 am

MichaelB wrote:http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/wada-announces-contador-appeal

WADA is now appealing separate to the UCI's appeal .

Hopefully if one appeal doesn't work, the other will.

Standy to watch the TdF on telly Bertie

unfortunately, CAS think they might not have a decision in time to prevent dopador from riding it

by **MichaelB** » Wed Mar 30, 2011 12:33 pm

hannos wrote:
unfortunately, CAS think they might not have a decision in time to prevent dopador from riding it

Whilst that is true, they'll be pushing hard to get that. Imagine the sports credibility when, he rides the Giro & wins, and then rides the TdF and wins, only to get banned after (due to the UCI & WADA appeals) and the winners of both GT's is suspended and has to hand back the trophies.

Decision before the Giro - no way.

Decision before the TdF - odds on i reckon, to save face if nothing else.

by **Chuck** » Wed Mar 30, 2011 6:58 pm

MichaelB wrote:
hannos wrote:
unfortunately, CAS think they might not have a decision in time to prevent dopador from riding it

Whilst that is true, they'll be pushing hard to get that. Imagine the sports credibility when, he rides the Giro & wins, and then rides the TdF and wins, only to get banned after (due to the UCI & WADA appeals) and the winners of both GT's is suspended and has to hand back the trophies.

Decision before the Giro - no way.

Decision before the TdF - odds on i reckon, to save face if nothing else.

It would be bad for the sport if he were to win both and then be suspended. Let's hope for a quicker than expected ruling whatever way it falls.

A little more here....

http://www.cyclingnews.com/features/opi ... -continues

Re winning the Giro and the Tour, that's a very tough thing to do, even for Contador. Schleck is focusing soley on the Tour, given how close he came last year he'll be very hard to beat. We saw how hard it was for Cadel and Basso at the Tour having gone all out at the Giro.