Team Sky, Brailsford and doping

[Dayvo]

Nordhaug fingers Rogers
In Norwegian - using google translator (so need some pinch of salt for accuracy) for one of the passages gives :
- For example, Michael Rogers who says he drugged himself earlier in his career, but he stopped in 2006. It's something I choose to believe, and I think many in the sport feel now. There are cyclists with a past, but they have accepted that they gave with it a few years ago.

I fear, and I hope I'm wrong, that my (and many others') favourite cyclist, Jens Voigt, may fall into this category. He's been around plenty long enough to have been involved. I've not read of any denials/admissions of guilt.

Hopefully he's just a clean and tough-as-nails cyclist.

 

[rich p]

We know, and have done for years, that Rogers admitted to going to Ferrari but not that he'd admitted doping earlier in his career. I assumed something had been lost in translation as I'm not aware that MR has fessed up to anything other than getting limited training plans from Ferrari.

 

[thom]

I fear, and I hope I'm wrong, that my (and many others') favourite cyclist, Jens Voigt, may fall into this category. He's been around plenty long enough to have been involved. I've not read of any denials/admissions of guilt.

Here you go : https://twitter.com/thejensie/status/256302800655507457

 

[thom]

We know, and have done for years, that Rogers admitted to going to Ferrari but not that he'd admitted doping earlier in his career. I assumed something had been lost in translation as I'm not aware that MR has fessed up to anything other than getting limited training plans from Ferrari.

That's as I heard it recently - a low cost training plan consultation. However much you want to believe it, it sounds implausible.
Nordhaug seems to be going a bit further now.

 

[rich p]

That's as I heard it recently - a low cost training plan consultation. However much you want to believe it, it sounds implausible.
Nordhaug seems to be going a bit further now.

But Nordhaug implies that rogers has admitted earlier use of dope but I don't think he has so I'm not sure what he's implying.
As FM has said elsewhere, and as was said in the Ukranian rider's link you posted, it wasn't unheard of to get just training plans from Ferrari.

 

[thom]

But Nordhaug implies that rogers has admitted earlier use of dope but I don't think he has so I'm not sure what he's implying.
As FM has said elsewhere, and as was said in the Ukranian rider's link you posted, it wasn't unheard of to get just training plans from Ferrari.

Yeah it would be better to have a reliable translation - I kind of read it to mean Rogers had said something to him in person on this. You're right, it's not clear but for me there's a question-mark.

 

[rich p]

Yeah it would be better to have a reliable translation - I kind of read it to mean Rogers had said something to him in person on this. You're right, it's not clear but for me there's a question-mark.

Witch-hunter!

 

[Dayvo]

Here you go : https://twitter.com/thejensie/status/256302800655507457

Many other cyclists have said those same words, only to retract them at a later date, but if Jens says he didn't, that's good enough for me.

Thanks, thom. Now I'll be able to sleep peacefully tonight!

 

[thom]

Witch-hunter!

LA is indeed a witch

 

[Red Light]

LA is indeed a witch

Warlock surely - or did the drugs change his gender?

 

[thom]

LA is indeed a witch

Turn the sound up. Then some more.

 

[thom]

a michael barry interview with canadian news
his manner is very muted, in contrast to Tyler

 

[StuAff]

Turn the sound up. Then some more.

Feel Good Hit of the Summer might be somewhat apt for the topic as well

 

[rich p]

a michael barry interview with canadian news
his manner is very muted, in contrast to Tyler

His quote from his book about how an immature rider will buckle under the pressure and succumb to drugs is pretty telling in hindsight.
OT - if my surname was Arsenault I might consider changing it!

 

[thom]

Michael Barry writes in the NYT. It gets quite interesting in the 2nd half. I guess he will be looking to journalism from now on for a career.