Tour de France ping!
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Posted on 08/01/2007 2:26:45 PM PDT by hardback
German authorities said yesterday they have received documents from doping expert Werner Franke which he claims show the Tour de France winner, Alberto Contador, was involved in doping.
Franke said he has documents from last year's Operation Puerto investigation in Spain which show that the Spaniard, who won the drug-marred race on Sunday, had taken HMG-Lepori as a testosterone booster and an asthma product called TGN.
"We can confirm we have received the documents, and they will be incorporated into procedures of the district attorney's office," said Christian Brockert, a spokesman for Germany's Federal Criminal Police Office.
Brockert said the federal office will meet with the district attorney's office deemed to be responsible and assess the documents.
Contador, who rides for the Discovery Channel team, missed the 2006 Tour when his former team, Liberty, was disqualified because he and four other riders - plus the team director and doctor - were allegedly linked to Operation Puerto.
Franke, a molecular biologist, is not the first to say he possesses copies of the Operation Puerto documents in which Contador's name surfaces. France's Le Monde newspaper, along with several German ones, have printed parts of documents.
Franke apparently has acquired other documents, saying only he got them "in my briefcase" while Spanish police were not watching.
(Excerpt) Read more at sport.guardian.co.uk ...
Tour de France: doping
Baseball: Barry Bonds
Football: Michael Vick
Basketball: gambling referees.
You forgot Gary Player at the British Open saying that a player has told him he was on roids. (Tiger?)
Maybe you should PING the TdF list....
If Contador would be disqualified we would really have a tight final (??) result. Evans 8” up on Leipheimer.
I say a match race on the Champs with both Evans and Levi’s teams plus
time bonuses to decide the winner.
Tour de France ping!
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I knew it! Those paranoic Frogs won’t let anybody win if he isn’t a Frog!
I agree. All of sports has become a disaster. How sad.
I think most of this is old news. Contador’s link to the Spanish Doping ring was reported and the evidence looked at last year. The link was the initials AC on a treatment slip. Nothing could be proved and he was cleared to ride this year.
If there is “new” documentation, where has it been the past year or so?
ScaniaBoy, you have some good cycling sources, is there anything new or just a rehash?
The difference is the UCI is serious about cheaters who pump up on steroids and blood doping,
major league baseball is not and turns a blinds eye to an
obvious pumped up steroid user breaking one of the greatest
records ever,and it will count as legitimate.
Yes, the last straw was when Bud Selig said he would attend the games and respect the accomplishment.
Yep. If MLB applied standards the way cycling does, Bonds would've been fired from his team, forced to pay back a year's salary, and given a two year ban from baseball.
” If MLB applied standards the way cycling does, Bonds would’ve been fired from his team, forced to pay back a year’s salary, and given a two year ban from baseball.”
I`m disgusted with MLB. It`s a f****n` joke.
My wish is to see the person who catches Bond`s home run ball to break Aaron`s record, keep it, then on home video, videotapes hmself burning the ball on his BBQ grill :-)
Does anyone really care about the Tour d Farce anymore?? Just give it to a Frog and be done with the stupid little bike race.
Pray for W and Our Troops
That was my take when I saw it here earlier today. I have been checking Velo News daily since the Tour ended to see if there is anything new. So far there's nothing. They reported this same story on Monday with the disclaimer from Contador that you mention. Until someone comes up with new information, I will not be concerned. It also seems like this Franke has an ax to grind...
PS. We’re not all “guys” here. ;-D
I use “guys” like I use “all y’all”.
“y’all” - singular
“all y’all” - plural
:-)
Aero, praying you & your family are all safe. Let us know OK?
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