ultimobici wrote:How is he able to race at all? He's banned, surely the organiser should say "You may ride, but you won't be eligible for placings or prizes"?
I feel sorry for the non-banned riders who morally should have won and not placed second to a man who has yet to be cleared of cheating.
If you are a banned/suspended licence holder you are barred from competition in most areas. To turn up at a high profile race like this when you are yet to succeed in overturning a ban is plain rude.
Anyway apologies for the rant, just needed to vent my spleen on the subject.
PS Nice bike!
your signature contains a quote from Fausto Coppi, il campionissimo. I feel compelled to point out an interview in the 50s when Coppi, asked if he used amphetamines (the drug of choice at the time), said, "only when necessary." asked how often it was necessary, he admitted, "practically all the time."
I'm not sure what the point of that was, since I've taken down my Tyler Hamilton poster, the one where he was en route to a spectacular solo victory in Bayonne in the 2003 TDF. in fact, I've taken all my posters down save for a small autographed photo of Laurent Jalabert I got on ebay. the doping scandals certainly sicken me. however, if TH is doping, then surely a lot more people are, perhaps even most of the peloton. and, even if TH was doping, the methods used to prove his guilt are, in my opinion, destroyed by methodological inaccuracies (the testers who finally declared him guilty knew that it was his sample, and they were the creators of the test). acceptable at the Salem witch trials, but not in a modern democracy.
in the end, I'm not prepared to be so judgmental about our friend the chimera participating in a cycling event.
Sometimes the flexy 202's are great and I'd say a climbing event like that are perfect for them.
