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dan emery
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 6892
Location: Maine7/2/18 9:37 AM |
Froome banned from Tour
Sky has appealed.
Just thought I'd try a cycling thread for a change.
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henoch
Joined: 12 Jan 2004
Posts: 1690
7/2/18 9:58 AM |
Unbanned
Thanks for the much welcomed cycling post
I wish that were true, then the Tour would actually be worth watching.
However much to the surprise of no one, Froome is cleared even though Petacchi and Uiisi received bannes for having lower amounts of the drug in their systems
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/uci-closes-salbutamol-case-against-chris-froome/
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Sparky
Joined: 08 Dec 2003
Posts: 19087
Location: PDX7/2/18 3:21 PM |
WTF?
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dan emery
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 6892
Location: Maine7/2/18 3:44 PM |
WTF
This morning there were reports that the organizers were banning Froome from the Tour because of the drug investigation. Then apparently he was cleared. I just know what I read.
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henoch
Joined: 12 Jan 2004
Posts: 1690
7/2/18 4:03 PM |
You are right Dan, they did try to ban him, but once the UCI dropped the charges ASO had nothing to ban him for.
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Sparky
Joined: 08 Dec 2003
Posts: 19087
Location: PDX7/2/18 5:51 PM |
I meant WTF as in "Petacchi and Uiisi bans" but the LA dejour get protection????
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henoch
Joined: 12 Jan 2004
Posts: 1690
7/2/18 8:44 PM |
@Sparky
Yep that is excitedly what happened, nothing more and nothing less, Sky has a rather large checkbook (as did lance).... need I say more?.
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Brian Nystrom
Joined: 26 Jan 2004
Posts: 5101
Location: Nashua, NH7/3/18 11:07 AM |
Yup, it's complete BS. Once ASO banned him, it forced the UCI to make a decision and they took the cowardly way out. Apparently they figured that another high-profile doping ban and a lawsuit from Froome's lawyers was too much to take, so they let Froome skate with no explanation. F-ing hypocrits!
I guess Sky's definition of "marginal gains" is "whatever morally reprehensible and legally suspect behavior we can get away with".
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