Well, Alberto Clenbutador has pulled it off — in Spain, anyway, where the cycling federation has told him that his Tour de France positive for clenbuterol means fuck-all as far as they are concerned. Cyclingnews reports that he’ll get right after it, racing the Tour ao Algarve Feb. 16-20 and the Vuelta Ciclista a la Region de Murcia March 4-6.
Clenbutador and Bjarne “Mr. 60%” Riis must be jacking off over this bit of news. But it’s far from the final word. UCI and WADA are almost certain to go ballistic and appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, where the outcome is far less certain.
What I’d like to know is: Where do the Spanish cycling federation pootbutts buy their pantalones? Dudes are so crooked, they have to screw ’em on every morning.
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I’ll venture a guess that Contador won’t get any sponsorship dollars from the Spanish Beef Council. This also throws the door wide open for the “microscopic amount” defense–as long as you are a winner. If you’re the eighth man on the roster, maybe not so much.
Oh, and I think I hear every Masters racer in the U.S. speed-dialing his “good friend” for a case of Clenbuterol, in very small doses, of course.
Ah, yes. Victory absolves one of a multitude of sins. Beats the mortal shit out of confession, which usually involves some form of penance.
Remind me again why national federations handle doping suspensions. I’m just waiting for Pat McQuaid to lash out and pull points from any race within pissing distance of Spanish soil for the rest of the season.
Beef! It’s what’s for dinner!
I can hardly wait for the next few of these.
So whatever happened to the “names” that were found in the German raid on that pharmaceutical warehouse? Was sure that Clenbuterol came up somewhere in that discussion…I take it Alberto Clenbutador’s name didn’t surface?
The Spanish just can’t make the Vuelta any more irrelevant. It’s like they’re TRYING to kill it off. Oh, is the Worlds scheduled for Spain anytime soon? If not, I think they just lost every bid for the next 20 years.
Maybe he and “Old TEX” can start their own team.
Let’s see — the next time a rider’s caught doping he sez, “I didn’t know the banned substance was in what I ate when I ate it, but I KNOW (but don’t ask me to prove it) the banned substance found in my sample came from what I ate”. Does anyone understand this? Reminds me of ol’ Donnie Rumsfeld and his “known unknowns” BS. With this excuse it would seem simple to explain away ANY positive dope test from now on.
“I made a deliberate decision not to ask the President, so that I could insulate him from the decision and provide some future deniability for the President if it ever leaked out.” –John Poindexter, Congressional testimony, Iran-Contra affair.
Maybe the bosses are not telling the stooges what is in those needles. Plausible deniability? Of course that doesn’t work if you are transfusing yourself using Ragu Chunky with Garlic Flecks.
And just when you thought things were really crazy…..
http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/02/south-dakota-hb-1171-legalize-killing-abortion-providers
Here’s a few cliches to sum it up. Wonder if we had known all of this at an earlier age if we would have done anything differently?
Life’s not fair.
People will let you down.
Not everyone is honest.
It’s not what you know, it’s who you know.
What can winners do? Anything they want.