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Thursday, November 15th, 2007Have people forgotten?
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Archive for November 15th, 2007
Ask a pretend bike racer
Thursday, November 15th, 2007A faithful reader (unlike what you may find at Bikethrough) writes in:
What’s your take on the revamped Tour de France and blood profiling? Cleanest Tour ever, or same old shit?
I think we are getting closer to the cleanest Tour ever.
Testing is getting more sophisticated, more cheaters are getting caught. The result is that it looks as though the sport is at its worst. I believe the reality is that, with improved testing, those that were using the most sophisticated doping techniques are now being busted. The message from the last two Tours should be: It ain’t worth it, you are going to get caught, don’t even try. I think the pro peloton is getting cleaner.
I’m not saying that doping will ever completely go away. I totally understand the motivation to dope and until recently the team structure, from the top down, has made it very easy for riders to make the decision to dope. But it has to give pause to the new professionals that the system seems to be working better now than ever and if you take the risk the chances are higher now that it will not pay off.
As they say, it’s always darkest before the dawn.
Cleanest Tour ever? Maybe. If not, perhaps very close to it. Time will tell.
BIKETHROW.COM…right track/wrong track?
Thursday, November 15th, 2007On Tuesday I wrote:
…these dust ups should not be brief. They should be a staple.
More interviews, more trash talk, more gossip, more controversy. That’s what I want to see.
The Throwers respond with devastating attacks against…the worst blog ever.
He’s, like a fighter who has taken too many shots to the head, swinging wildly at thin air in an attempt to come back, only to leave himself more vulnerable for the kill shot. I think our original question is less rhetorical and more literal today.
His site is like a bar you hang out at once in a while but you wish you didn’t. The topic of conversation isn’t interesting, the drunks there only listen to their own blather, and you smell bad when you leave. Smithers is a windsock blogger who panders to momentum. He was for dopers before he was against them. He was for the MCF before he was against it. And now, unrelated to our topics, he was for democrats before he was against them.
Awesome!
You forgot that Smithers’ content is similar to what you find in toilet paper just before you flush.
Bikethrow.com, defining the very essence of “relevant”!
