Festina case
Sunday, January 9, 2011
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few months ago I talked about Tom Simpson, the man who died on his bike because of the amphetamines are taken to improve performance. And I wanted to talk, the second chapter about doping in cycling, the Festina case.
We are located in summer 1998 ready to begin the tour in Irish land. In the customs of the country there is a tip in which arrest the Festina masseur to import drugs without authorization. In the excitement no one knew what was going on and the race continued. Days later we learned that the 'medicine' were no other thing that EPO, growth hormones and testosterone.
On July 17 the organization decides to expel the Festina team. That team was not one more, came to win the tour:
Richard Virenque, Alex Zulle , Laurent Brochard, Pascal Herve, Christophe Moreau, Didier Rous, Laurent Dufaux, Armin Meier and Australian Neil Stephens. Displaying
components that unless you tell me all sound Armin Meier and I'm sad to think about what happened that year because it would have been a very entertaining tour being in the ointment here with normal racing.
Richard Virenque leaving the tour. Took its toll on doping her hair. Once you pull the blanket begins with the French police records to other teams, drug tests, arrests and the visit of 'vampire' at odd hours. Until then, if he had but certainly anti-doping controls were not as frequent or extensive as they are now.
To protest the poor treatment and the presumption of guilt of all the riders, there are two cyclists who choose to represent the squad and defend the innocence of their peers: The charismatic and French rider Laurent Jalabert superclass and former world champion and great hijodeputa Danish Bjarne Riis liar, who has seen and whom he sees.
Pantani with the rest of the pack by refusing to run. After a tour full of stoppages, pachanga rhythm stages, days in which no one wore the bibs and other outbursts and fights between the organization and the runners cross the finish line in Paris 96 of the 189 who began the tour.
Valreas - Grenoble 1998. Winner: Piranha
Among the English teams had a pact to leave the tour in protest at the treatment of the organization. Mark memory as the headline on the cover proudly that 'no English just the tour' and the director Manolo Saiz boast of having ruined by all the tour saying that he had put a finger in the ass to the organization.
now is very different today, if a country suspected of doping that is Spain. We recently had two cases that have dotted our present and we have flushed the eyes of the world: the case of greyhound counter clenbuterol.
What bothers me most is the treatment from the press and the excuses that seem to lead nowhere.
For Contador first was the steak that he ate a half day tour, then the farmers said that what it's pouring cleaning his brown shit on.
The truth is that today it is unclear what has been but Alberto is already in the shadow of suspicion and the UCI to take to Spain as a country not serious in regard to anti-doping.
Some may think that more controls should be yet, I think it's a matter of education received by each man for himself.
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