Bruyneel's 10-year ban

[Tumbleweed]

http://www.johanbruyneel.com/blog/article/statement-johan-bruyneel-regarding-aaa-decision

 

I do not dispute that there are certain elements of my career that I wish had been different. Nor do I dispute that doping was a fact of life in the peloton for a considerable period of time. However, a very small minority of us has been used as scapegoats for an entire generation. There is clearly something wrong with a system that allows only six individuals to be punished as retribution for the sins of an era.

[T-Bob]

He has a point but it doesn't stop the fact his career has been dripping in doping, wrong doing and constant denials.

 

Just as well he sold his world tour licence before that decision came through.

[gummibear]

Spill the beans Johan....name the riders,Doctors and directeur sportifs involved in doping.

[rouxtjie]

what a tjop, reminds me of a certain local pro that also coined the fact the he wasn't alone and that testing system itself is to blame for him taking epo...

[T-Bob]

Spill the beans Johan....name the riders,Doctors and directeur sportifs involved in doping.

 

Lets get LA, Johan and Lars on Oprah Pt2 with some decent questions and a Jerry-Springer-style all in bun fight at the end.

[G-Unit]

He has a point, but 2 wrongs definitely don't make a right.

[G-Unit]

Double post.

Edited April 22, 2014 by G-Unit

[Tumbleweed]

the Inner Ring ‏@inrng 26m

Bruyneel disputes USADA's jurisdiction. UCI under McQuaid tried same argument but WADA Code is clear, Art 15.3 allows USADA to prosecute

[Wyatt Earp]

The Kingpin.

[TALUS]

The Kingpin.

That is exactly the point! He was one of the guys that really pushed it to the next level. And then he told the riders that spoke up or got caught that they are "toxic" and cannot come back to his team (Astana).

[Tumbleweed]

Here's the Usada release: http://www.usada.org/default.asp?uid=4580

['Dale]

What a relief

This has been an outstanding item for a while now

[Eldron]

Are we still talking about doping that happened last century? Fark...

 

I hate doping but this 20 year long on off fart arsing approach to doping is worse than the actual doping. Knowing this year's winner before the previous years winner has been clarified in court, trials that last 90% as long as the ban, digging up skeletons then banning then, banning people after they've retired. I'm sick to death of the post mortem approach to "fixing" doping.

[Tumbleweed]

David Walsh ‏@DavidWalshST 57m

"I do not dispute that there are certain elements of my career that I wish had been different." Johan Bruyneel. "I think it may rain." Noah.

[Squier]

Well, you can't really expect to get off scott free because you weren't the only sinner. I have to concede that he has a point though. It's as if the UCI and WADA point of view is one of "bring down US Postal and we've won" and I don't believe that to be entirely fair.

 

But then, to Eldron's point, where will this end?

[igknot]

If you are the scape goat. Drag the rest down with you.