Discovery suspends Basso !!!!!

[Christie]

Have to agree, Basso winning the Giro by 20 min looks very suspicios. Dont think he's clean. Lance did not win 7 in a row on water either.

 

Testosterone alone wont have made Landis 10 min faster than everyone. Blood doping, EPO & growth hormones perhaps (which he probably used, but was not caught out for)

I'm not sure about Pereiro, either. He did much better in the second TT compared to the first 2, and lost 30min in the initial mountain stages, then ended up climbing with the front guys in the Alps.

It is so rediculous - The main contenders gets thrown out on grounds of doping suspicions, and what happens? Another doper wins. So he gets busted as well. Is the next guy in line clean? I wont bet on it. (He was at Phonac with Hamilton, Landis, Perez, & Gutierrez  after all) 

[Warped]

Seems even Bjarne Riis is implicated!

 

From News24:

 

'Cyclists wanted dope'

2007-4-28 21:39

Berlin - The former masseur of Team Telekom, Jeff d'Hont, has accused his former team of systematic doping.

D'Hont, who was masseur for Telekom between 1992 and 1996, writes in a book - a preview of which will be published in the German news magazine Spiegel on Monday - that team doctors from a hospital in Freiburg doped the cyclists.

He said that one of the things they were given was EPO, which is used for blood doping.

D'Hont is quoted as saying: "The cyclists wanted it, even though the team doctor Andreas Schmid at first was reluctant."

The present T-Mobile team doctor, Lothar Heinrich, has also been implicated, as have former tour winners Jan Ullrich and Bjarne Riis.

The T-Mobile manager Bob Stapleton has said that they would no longer work with the doctors if the allegations are proved to be correct.

Heinrich had earlier dismissed d'Hont's allegations made on Belgian television that Riis had been doped when he won the Tour de France in 1986. "I have no explanation for the allegations. I can only confirm the statement from the hospital that said that the allegations are without foundation

SAPA

[Christie]

Of course Riis doped when he won the Tour (wasnt it 1996?) Very few tests existed back then, so nobody got caught.

[bruce]

His nickname wasn't "Mr 60%" for nothing - referring to his heamatocrit level when he won he tour.