Admit or not
Lefevere denies allegations, threatens legal action
If half of what is alleged against Lefevere is true then can you really believe Museeuw is being completely forthright?
Museeuw admits to doping as career wound down
Is that your final answer? Alright, maybe getting a small admission of guilt will lead to greater confession results down the road. I think it's safe to assume now that 99% of all riders, if they admit to doping, will only do so in a minimalist fashion.
First Edition Cycling News for January 24, 2007
This is a good general rundown of the day's events regarding Museeuw and Lefevere. Had Lefevere kept his mouth shut about Operaction Puerto and Discovery Channel then it's likely none of this would be raining down on him now.
Life lesson to be learned here: If everyone around you knows about the no-good you're up to and you turn around criticizing them for doing the same thing you're doing then you can expect a harsh and painful backlash. It doesn't take long for the mirror in front of your face to expose the hypocrisy you're living in.
Millar doping charges dismissed
So Museeuw, where exactly did you administer those drugs into your body?
Upshaw tells newspaper he doubts WADA's credibility
Leave it to the NFL player's union to tell WADA they aren't an authority on drug testing. I have always wondered why Dick Pound hasn't ripped MLB and the NFL like he has the sport of cycling in order to affect change. If ever there was a sport with its head in the sand it's the NFL.
What's detrimental to cycling is that it's the most tested sport on the planet and in all likelihood the cleanest sport. However, it also yields a greater number of positive doping results because of intense testing. The impression left with everyone is that the sport is filled with cheaters. In other major sports the testing is nowhere near as stringent and has fewer positive doping results. The effect is people believe those sports to be clean, but in reality it's likely filled with cheaters up and down the lineup.
Here's one thing I've thought about lately that I do not think is fair to pro cyclists or any other professional athlete. They should be given the benefit of the doubt and not randomly asked questions like, "Have you ever taken performance enhancing drugs?" It's not fair to put any athlete on the spot to ask such a question if no impropriety has allegedly taken place. I have read of these types of questions getting asked of pro cyclists, but I never do hear it coming from the mouths of sports writers for other major sports.
The first thought that comes to my mind is that men who compete using bats and balls are more physically intimidating, which would make a journalist think twice about asking the question face-to-face. However, cyclists aren't seen as the most intimidating physical figures as journalists may see them as skinny wimps on a bicycle. I'm making this up, but subconsciously is that going on you think? Really, I wonder because professional cyclists get pushed around by the media day in and day out.
Think about this, what's the line of questioning like and how is it uniquely different between Mark McGwire, Roger Clemmons, Gary Sheffield, Brian Urlacher, Lawrence Taylor, Bill Romanowski, Frankie Andreu, Ivan Basso and Floyd Landis?
Who do you think will get verbally pushed around out of that group of men?
If half of what is alleged against Lefevere is true then can you really believe Museeuw is being completely forthright?
Museeuw admits to doping as career wound down
Is that your final answer? Alright, maybe getting a small admission of guilt will lead to greater confession results down the road. I think it's safe to assume now that 99% of all riders, if they admit to doping, will only do so in a minimalist fashion.
First Edition Cycling News for January 24, 2007
This is a good general rundown of the day's events regarding Museeuw and Lefevere. Had Lefevere kept his mouth shut about Operaction Puerto and Discovery Channel then it's likely none of this would be raining down on him now.
Life lesson to be learned here: If everyone around you knows about the no-good you're up to and you turn around criticizing them for doing the same thing you're doing then you can expect a harsh and painful backlash. It doesn't take long for the mirror in front of your face to expose the hypocrisy you're living in.
Millar doping charges dismissed
So Museeuw, where exactly did you administer those drugs into your body?
Upshaw tells newspaper he doubts WADA's credibility
Leave it to the NFL player's union to tell WADA they aren't an authority on drug testing. I have always wondered why Dick Pound hasn't ripped MLB and the NFL like he has the sport of cycling in order to affect change. If ever there was a sport with its head in the sand it's the NFL.
What's detrimental to cycling is that it's the most tested sport on the planet and in all likelihood the cleanest sport. However, it also yields a greater number of positive doping results because of intense testing. The impression left with everyone is that the sport is filled with cheaters. In other major sports the testing is nowhere near as stringent and has fewer positive doping results. The effect is people believe those sports to be clean, but in reality it's likely filled with cheaters up and down the lineup.
Here's one thing I've thought about lately that I do not think is fair to pro cyclists or any other professional athlete. They should be given the benefit of the doubt and not randomly asked questions like, "Have you ever taken performance enhancing drugs?" It's not fair to put any athlete on the spot to ask such a question if no impropriety has allegedly taken place. I have read of these types of questions getting asked of pro cyclists, but I never do hear it coming from the mouths of sports writers for other major sports.
The first thought that comes to my mind is that men who compete using bats and balls are more physically intimidating, which would make a journalist think twice about asking the question face-to-face. However, cyclists aren't seen as the most intimidating physical figures as journalists may see them as skinny wimps on a bicycle. I'm making this up, but subconsciously is that going on you think? Really, I wonder because professional cyclists get pushed around by the media day in and day out.
Think about this, what's the line of questioning like and how is it uniquely different between Mark McGwire, Roger Clemmons, Gary Sheffield, Brian Urlacher, Lawrence Taylor, Bill Romanowski, Frankie Andreu, Ivan Basso and Floyd Landis?
Who do you think will get verbally pushed around out of that group of men?
posted by NashvilleCyclist.com at 1/24/2007 12:15:00 AM
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