Discovery Channel has announced they are stopping their search for a title sponsor and Tailwind Sports will end the cycling program at the end of this season.
Velonews article here
Cycling news article here
So this puts a number of high profile riders out of a job at the end of this season and after many teams have already made their moves for next year.
We know that Big George is going to be at T-Mobile, but what about Levi, Tom Danielson, Contador, and the rest? Levi seems to be a sure bet to land at another ProTour squad but it should be interesting to see what develops. I wonder if this is why Contador had his big press conference today where he denied the swirling accusations about doping.
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Friday, August 10, 2007
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
HOLY CRAP!!!
UPDATE Below
Well this just f-in sucks!
Vino has tested positive for blood doping after his TT stage win.
Apparently the entire Astana team has withdrawn from the tour following the news.
Of all the people to test positive it had to be him, and after winning 2 out the last 3 stages in the tour.
I know that he has always seemed to care more about himself than his teammates, but this goes well beyond any of that because now it affects the entire peloton. When added to the accusations about Rasmussen the media is only going to be talking about this for the rest of this tour.
There has been a ton of exciting moments and now it all boils down to doping.
He better not be signed by another team ever again and I hope that he is never allowed to compete at a professional level again.
Update: The more I think about it, I fell that in the future any team that has a rider test positive should be immediately barred from the remainder of the competition they are in. Maybe that would drive the fight against doping a little more via peer pressure.
The one positive thing I have to say though is that he cheated and he was caught. This is the point of the controls. Plenty of track and field athletes have been caught for doping and yet you don't here the same things about those sports.
Well this just f-in sucks!
Vino has tested positive for blood doping after his TT stage win.
Apparently the entire Astana team has withdrawn from the tour following the news.
Of all the people to test positive it had to be him, and after winning 2 out the last 3 stages in the tour.
I know that he has always seemed to care more about himself than his teammates, but this goes well beyond any of that because now it affects the entire peloton. When added to the accusations about Rasmussen the media is only going to be talking about this for the rest of this tour.
There has been a ton of exciting moments and now it all boils down to doping.
He better not be signed by another team ever again and I hope that he is never allowed to compete at a professional level again.
Update: The more I think about it, I fell that in the future any team that has a rider test positive should be immediately barred from the remainder of the competition they are in. Maybe that would drive the fight against doping a little more via peer pressure.
The one positive thing I have to say though is that he cheated and he was caught. This is the point of the controls. Plenty of track and field athletes have been caught for doping and yet you don't here the same things about those sports.
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