http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2008/jul/17/tourdefrance.cycling3?gusrc=rss&feed=networkfront
"'It's completely shocking,' said the International Cycling Union president Pat McQuaid."
What? It's shocking that a cyclist on the Tour de France is taking a banned substance? A cyclist who left the other riders in the dust in Stage 9? I thought we knew that all these guys are on something.
But then, he goes on to say, "It would strike me now that someone would have advised those guys to take some form of EPO thought to be undetectable because we haven't caught guys in this fashion for a long time."
Oh, wait, I see now. He is shocked that Ricco was on a banned substance that could be detected. He is berating him for his stupidity in getting caught, not for taking the substance in the first place. Yet another example of how cheating is endemic and normalized within pro cycling.
posted by Tina on 7/17/2008 | 0 comments | #