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.
Sunday, January 2, 2011
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The Curse of the Little Bastard
As we all know, James Dean died on September 30, 1955, at 24 years old and the wheel of his "Little Bastard", a name he named his latest acquisition, a Porsche 550 Spyder silver.'d just shoot his latest film Gigante, and to celebrate was to go along with his friend Rolf Wütherich mechanic at a car race near San Francisco. Never arrive, because along the way suffered a collision with another vehicle causing death. Although the irony of this accident is not to go to contest a race, but his last performance was in an advertisement in which he warned about the dangers of speed.
There are many myths about this actor, whose career is as successful as transient. This is not a story about the myth of actor James Dean or James Dean on the pilot, is about the legend surrounding his car, his Little Bastard.
The curse began the day of the accident that killed the actor, when they went to tow the Porsche on a truck driver was killed in this way. Then, a mechanic named George Barris bought the car.
When the car arrived at Barris garage, in a fatal accident fell on top of one of its employees, leaving the poor man with no legs. After the event Barris decided to sell it in pieces among racing fans. In 1956, the man who bought the motor car James Dean, died during his first race. On the other hand, who bought the transmission suffered another car accident that left him wounded. Another of the guests, the young man who kept the wheels, had an accident, which happened due to a defect in the tire rubber. Midfielder Dean's Porsche was the Barris himself. A young man tried to steal, and attempt to cut off the arm.
The curse began the day of the accident that killed the actor, when they went to tow the Porsche on a truck driver was killed in this way. Then, a mechanic named George Barris bought the car.
When the car arrived at Barris garage, in a fatal accident fell on top of one of its employees, leaving the poor man with no legs. After the event Barris decided to sell it in pieces among racing fans. In 1956, the man who bought the motor car James Dean, died during his first race. On the other hand, who bought the transmission suffered another car accident that left him wounded. Another of the guests, the young man who kept the wheels, had an accident, which happened due to a defect in the tire rubber. Midfielder Dean's Porsche was the Barris himself. A young man tried to steal, and attempt to cut off the arm.
Barris, incredulous, tried by all means dispose of the car and gave it to an exhibition where the car fell off its stand hip snapping a teenager. When the car had to be moved back into a truck, the truck had an accident and their driver also died. Again, Barris loaned the car to an exhibition in Miami. The truck that transported it up there mysteriously disappeared. Never was heard of the Little Bastard of James Dean, and I think is the best thing ever happened to racing in the twentieth century.
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