Just when you though it was safe... another positive

[Flying_Monkey]

Dimitry Fofonov this time - fairly big name and high finisher in the TdF, Heptaminol (a banned stimulant) this time... he was with Credit Agricole, another team yet to adopt independent monitoring. Apparently it was a 'really heavy dose' too - no marginal amount.

 

[Keith Oates]

"He says that it was for cramps, but that he forgot to tell the team doctor," - Bad memory I guess!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[chris42]

Should the headline read: "ASO actually tested a French rider Shocker"??

 

[Ludwig]

I stopped watching when Saunier Duval pulled out. I say that the tour needs a year off like the Glasto fest and needs to take a long hard look at itself and make drastic changes. Much of it and bike racing in general is deadly dull, their has been an unacceptable number of doping violations ,the man on the street cannot relate to it as the bikes etc are so expensive. It will become a dead sport if it doesn't modernize. Look at cricket and how that has adapted to the modern era with the 20 - 20 format and cleaned up its act.

 

[Cathryn]

Much of it and bike racing in general is deadly dull, their has been an unacceptable number of doping violations ,the man on the street cannot relate to it as the bikes etc are so expensive.

That's like saying the average man on the street doesn't like formula 1 because he owns a mondeo!

 

[Smokin Joe]

I stopped watching when Saunier Duval pulled out. I say that the tour needs a year off like the Glasto fest and needs to take a long hard look at itself and make drastic changes. Much of it and bike racing in general is deadly dull, their has been an unacceptable number of doping violations ,the man on the street cannot relate to it as the bikes etc are so expensive. It will become a dead sport if it doesn't modernize. Look at cricket and how that has adapted to the modern era with the 20 - 20 format and cleaned up its act.

To the man on the street any bike over £250 is too expensive. As for "Too many doping violations", just wait for the Olympics.

Your apparant claim that cricket is more exciting than cycling was a joke, right?

 

[Cathryn]

Oh my word cricket is lethally dull! Even bottomless bottles of champers couldn't lure me back to Headingly!

 

[Flying_Monkey]

Ludwig always says this, in fact it seems to be the only reason he posts here at all.

 

[Tetedelacourse]

I personally wouldn't see much point in posting in a racing section of a cycling forum if I wasn't a fan of pro cycling. Maybe he races, but I've never seen a post from him along those lines.

 

[Andy Pandy]

I don't think Ludwig was suggesting that cricket was more exciting than pro cycling, just that cricket has changed and evolved to increase public interest (i.e. 20/20). Maybe cycling could learn something from cricket. Its hardly a mass spectator sport in the UK or Ireland. My only chance of seeing live pro cycling in Ireland would be to drive several hundred miles to watch a stage of the ToI.