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Unread 26 Jul 2007, 12:05   #19
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Re: Tour the doping
The most irritating thing at the moment is British sportswriters pretending they have a clue about cycling - check out Richard Williams' article in the Guardian today. To quote a commenter on the article:

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I fail to see how Richard Williams can compare the manner of yesterday's stage win by Rasmussen with Landis's solo victory last year and Vinokourov on Monday. Both of those wins followed unbelievably bad days for Landis and Vino on the previous stage. Yesterday's win by Rasmussen wasn't an indication that he was doped up for the stage - his rivals Contador and Leipheimer had given their all to drop him earlier on in the climb and had nothing left - Rasmussen hadn't had to kick at all and simply kept up his tempo - increasing it when he sensed his rivals were spent. If he'd finished 10 mins ahead of them then there would be grounds for suspicion.
And as for Cadel Evans not being able to keep up with Rasmussen/Contador/Leipheimer, Evans isn't a great climber (he's more of a jack of all trades) whereas Rasmussen and Contador in particular are specialist climbers. Rasmussen pulled away when it was clear that Contador had blown and Leipheimer had nothing left either.


A good quote from another commentor, although I'm not sure about his parting shot:

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According to UK Athletics last year over 70 British Athletes missed out of competition drug tests by not being where they said they were. Two were banned under the three strikes and out rule, four missed two tests and were on last written warnings. Both Athletics and Cycling are actively chasing the cheats, by having notification systems in place but where are other sports in all this? As we know from golf, some sports don't even test.

Rasmussen will have been tested more in this past month than any Premiership footballer will have in their careers. What's to say blood doping isn't happening in football to improve stamina in the physically demanding Premier League?

When all sports test on the same level then people are entitled to be cynical about cycling.
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