Tagged

So they tagged Iban Mayo for EPO. Yeah, it’s true. I saw it on the front page of Velonews.com yesterday afternoon so it has to be true.

That’s too bad. I remember writing about Iban Mayo not too long ago and, honestly, I get this odd sense of satisfaction every time I log online and see another headline for another top riding testing positive for either testosterone, EPO, or anything else they’re not supposed to be taking. In other words, I enjoy reading about the cheats getting busted for cheating and I would have to imagine a fair amount of other people probably feel the same way.

Strange, though, how much of the media keeps their heads in the sand. Also in Velonews.com yesterday (I’m not the biggest fan of the pub, but they do keep their news up to date faster than most other sites and you can’t really beat their video footage) were a few rumblings as to how Alberto Contador had originally been implicated in the Operacion Puerto bust but then had been cleared by Spanish authorities, yet most of the media chose to hail Contador as a new hero, a great, young, clean rider to pave a new path in the future of cycling.

Give me a frigging break. Contador was one of the few people who were able to challenge Rasmussen in the mountains and Rasmussen was kicked out for lying about his whereabouts which most likely means he was doping. I mean, let’s put two and two together here:

Rasmussen = Yellow jersey / KOM jersey

Rasmussen = kicked out for lying and/or alleged doping

Contador = contesting Rasmussen--an alleged doper--in the mountains on the hardest climbs

Contador = Discovery rider

Discovery rider = Johan Bruyneel

Johan Bruyneel = his riders always seem to win yet never test positive

Do you think it’s Johan’s secret training program? Or do you think it might have something to do with the fact that the former US Postal and current Discovery riders tend to take about thirty needles in their asses every night during a stage race? How in the world any journalist could consider Contador the hero for clean racing is beyond me.

Speaking of which, I wonder if Lance takes the occasional syringe of EPO just for laughs? I wonder if the guy draws and then transfuses the occasional pint of his own blood just to make him feel like he did in the old days? Talk about drug addiction. Can you imagine retired racers handing around Blood Drive trailer units, twitching and scratching their necks, begging for a few cc’s of Type A or Type B?