¡Operación: el juego stupdio por medicos locos!
Operación Puerto claimed its latest victims: the entire Tour de Fucking France. Seriously, when is this shit going to stop!? When is the pro peloton going to organize, and use their union or some other body to stop taking this bullshit? When are team directors going to grow some sac and start defending their riders? Bjarne Riis: "I believe Ivan, but it's out of my hands." Bullshit! Same thing goes for T-Mobile.
Let's review: coded names are found in a Spanish blood-doping doctor's notebook, one being "hijo de Rudicio" - the son of Rudy. Rudy Pevenage? Jan Ullrich's long-time trainer and advisor. Maybe. Enough evidence to throw out a rider who is favored to win the Tour? Is it a circumstantial case? Barely. How far would it go in court if it were a legal proceeding? Not very. What has been accomplished? Whose life has been saved? What good has this done cycling? Even if Jan, Basso, Mancebo, et al. are taking autologous or homologous transfusions, do we think for a minute they are the only ones? Is it remotely possible that whoever comes out on top of this year's Tour isn't doing similar things to enhance performance? I'll say it again: we need to grow the fuck up and admit that this is how people win in professional sports: cycling, baseball, soccer. Get over it. The hypocritical rhetoric over "purity" and "cheating" is far more nauseating than the knowledge that great, talented riders like Ullrich, Basso, Hamilton, and yes, Armstrong used whatever means at their disposal to make the human body do something it was never intended or designed to do, to push it beyond its limits. These men are adults, they're professionals, they're supervised by teams of physicians. There is no "purity" in professional sports, where millions upon millions of dollars and euros are at stake. You want purity? Go to a park and catch an ultimate frisbee game. But thanks, UCI, WADA, et al. for ruining another Tour de France.


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