Myra

Please sign. This is important. https://secure.avaaz...World_Tour_2015 Google translate For cycling, it is important that the sporting aspect is emphasized and that the financial aspect is secondary behind the ethics (when it is respected). The UCI (International Cycling Union) preferred to take a team (Astana) where several doping cases were found and which is associated with one or more doping stories (Padua). Why not insert the Team Europcar among the 18 teams in the World Tour, especially as compared to other years, there is a free space and no other team has applied to climb higher division and that the team was World Tour supposed to stay for a period of 2 years?

Please sign. This is important. https://secure.avaaz.org/fr/petition/Brian_Cookson_Linsertion_du_Team_Europcar_dans_le_World_Tour_2015 Google translate For cycling, it is important that the sporting aspect is emphasized and that the financial aspect is secondary behind the ethics (when it is respected). The UCI (International Cycling Union) preferred to take a team (Astana) where several doping cases were found and which is associated with one or more doping stories (Padua). Why not insert the Team Europcar among the 18 teams in the World Tour, especially as compared to other years, there is a free space and no other team has applied to climb higher division and that the team was World Tour supposed to stay for a period of 2 years?

https://secure.avaaz.org/fr/petition/Brian_Cookson_Linsertion_du_Team_Europcar_dans_le_World_Tour_2015 Google translate For cycling, it is important that the sporting aspect is emphasized and that the financial aspect is secondary behind the ethics (when it is respected). The UCI (International Cycling Union) preferred to take a team (Astana) where several doping cases were found and which is associated with one or more doping stories (Padua). Why not insert the Team Europcar among the 18 teams in the World Tour, especially as compared to other years, there is a free space and no other team has applied to climb higher division and that the team was World Tour supposed to stay for a period of 2 years? Please sign!

The Borgias was getting too expensive to produce so they didn't film the fourth season. You can, however, buy the script for the fourth season as an ebook.

I blame Festina

https://community.bikehub.co.za/topic/142219-killarney/page__hl__killarney

So SAIDS is not reliable/consistent? Surely BS should have known that? Even more reason to be extra careful and follow the rules to the letter. (I am not saying that its all right that SAIDS is inconsistent. I am saying that that is unfortunately the status quo and pros need to take that into account.) I hope that all the other pros and potential pros are paying attention and don't risk their careers/reputations/livelihoods by taking banned substances without first getting their TUEs approved (assuming that that is what happened and this whole story isn't just a cover-up, which is also plausible in the circumstances).

Agree with everything you've said except the last sentence. No pro can afford to be naive/dim/negligent when it comes to doping. There are rules in place and they need to be followed.

Yes, we know. And its sad.

Clearly you didn't read his statement. Maybe you should do so. Go on. Or do you also not know what a TUE is?

How can the owner of a cycling team, in this day and age, not know what TUE stands for? That alone sounds fishy.

Now you guys have to support former hubber Craven. Last African I think.

Thank you for the comprehensive response. I think I will be doing the same as you.

Is ITV4 in the Multichoice bouquet? Would it be worth upgrading to premium? I don't usually allow myself to be scammed by them for more than about a month each year.

I punched my cat in the side once. I stuck my hand out for the dustbin in the exact moment he jumped up from behind me. He was going for the counter but did 180 midair instead. Tre story.

No, you're not the best. Your doctors are.

Why am I not surprised.

Is it a hubber?

Some guys appear to be forgetting that cycling is a team sport. Its not tennis or athletics. You can be the best cyclist in the world but if you're not on a pro tour team you're not going to be doing pro tour races and getting "good results". Getting on a team is more than just about results. Some times its about who you know. Even if you get onto a pro tour team, you might still not get "results". Cycling teams have different dynamics and team members have different roles, eg domestique, sprinter's lead-out man. There are so many factors that you have to take into account. You can't just look at someone's results and decide whether they suddenly started doping or not.

No. Litigation is just too expensive and time consuming. A bad settlement is better than a 'victory' in court.

Its hard to take a letter of demand seriously when they start off by defining their client as "their client". Who else would they be acting on behalf of? And who includes case law in a letter of demand? Posturing much?

According to her website she is a consultant, not an attorney. How is she going to be of any use in a "case". Hey Fand, you better watch out - you're going to be consulted!

Not you personally, people in general. If one doesn't go about it the right way (and the right way is always open to interpretation) an attempt "to make reasonable effort to obtain comment, clarification, etc" could be construed as publication because twitter is both a platform and communication.

But with twitter its a bit tricky, don't you think? Its not just a publication, its also a means of communicating. You can use it to follow celebrities but also to contact them. So you could use twitter to obtain comment, clarification eg from a celebrity. Just because they do not like the question, doesn't mean you should not be able to ask it. I think we should be able to ask our pros the difficult questions and poke fun at them.

I believe that there are clean cyclists (there is one in particular that I would lay my head on a block for) but some dope. You can't tar everyone with the same brush.