More Basso news

[IFjane]

I wonder if he is going to rat everyone else out?

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?...y07/may07news3

[maillotpois]

Holy cow.

[maillotpois]

And now Valverde may be involved:

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?...ay07/may07news

[jobob]

Crud. And other things that would just get *'d out.

[IFjane]

Yeah....I really did not want to believe it, even when he left Disco.

Makes me think Bruyneel knew more than he was letting on.

[IFjane]

And now Valverde may be involved:

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?...ay07/may07news

Yeah - so how did he get to race le Tour when Basso & Ullrich did not?

[maillotpois]

The whole Tour thing with Vino is what really made me mad. Knock on wood that he was not involved, but the fact that he got shut out because he didn't have enough teammates left - because of their involvement with events while on a different team - that was just a huge injustice.

And Valverde may have gotten a karmic end to the Tour for a reason.

[maillotpois]

Remember Simoni's "extraterrestrial" comments about Basso after the Giro? Simoni's not looking like nearly such a whiner anymore....

[IFjane]

Remember Simoni's "extraterrestrial" comments about Basso after the Giro? Simoni's not looking like nearly such a whiner anymore....

nope.....not at all. In fact, I think we have all been duped.

[margo49]

At least he's said it. Finally. Now he can move on.
'Tis a question what Brunyeel knew and where he was in all this the past few months. And the rest of the Discovery team and management.

Remember David Millar 3 years ago? Confessed, did his 2 year stand down and came back just as good if not better last year. Not to mention older and wiser.

[PinkBike]

today he says he only "attempted" to dope - i dont think you can believe anything he says
http://www.velonews.com/news/fea/12220.0.html

[Pax]

today he says he only "attempted" to dope - i dont think you can believe anything he says
http://www.velonews.com/news/fea/12220.0.html

Good grief! The lack of character shown in recent years in all professional mens sports is just shameful. Since doping and roids are now the norm maybe they should just welcome them with open arms and anyone stupid enough to do that to their body can compete.

[Kalidurga]

today he says he only "attempted" to dope - i dont think you can believe anything he says
http://www.velonews.com/news/fea/12220.0.html

"Attempted" to dope, huh? Is that like Bill Clinton's admission that he smoked a joint, but "didn't inhale"?

If an "attempt" is all he made, why didn't Basso admit that in the very beginning?

[equus123]

Good grief! The lack of character shown in recent years in all professional mens sports is just shameful. Since doping and roids are now the norm maybe they should just welcome them with open arms and anyone stupid enough to do that to their body can compete.

i know, right?!

doping will never go away just as there will never be world peace, i'm sorry, but i just don't see it. they can even have two separate sports - one for the dopers to see how far the human body can be pushed beyond it's natural potential, and one for those who choose to compete naturally. this way everybody gets to do what's on their agenda, create severe penalties for those who try and cheat (i.e. doper to compete in "natural" races - penalty to expel that person from racing completely and indefinitely), and there aren't any of these stupid problems anymore.

i think they either need to separate the two or make penalties so severe that it discourages people altogether from doping. what's the harm in being on a 2 year suspension? what kind of point does that get across to others and children (the future of the sport)? - if you do something bad, illegal, and against the rules then you'll only have a slap on the hand suspension for a short period of time. i think that's a bad answer to a horrible epidemic problem.

[7rider]

"Attempted" to dope, huh? Is that like Bill Clinton's admission that he smoked a joint, but "didn't inhale"?

That's the exact same thought I had.