pick6 wrote:
styrrell wrote:
pick6 wrote:
styrrell wrote:
The only confessed doper I put a step above any of the other is Frankie. He did it, he admitted it with no compulsion by anyone, and he has never tried to cash in on it.
I have vaughters on that list too. Not only has he admitted it (although not in as public a light as frankie) he then went about making a concerted effort inside cycling to work against doping
Seriously, when he was a rider all he did was whine about how unfair the doping rules are wah i got a bee sting now I can't ride because I'm so clean. Then when he is a DS he is all against dopers, except when he can hire ex dopers. then when the growing list of guys on his team end up banned he drops them because he is shocked shocked i tell you that guys would dope. What concerted effort has he made other than saying I'm not not going to stand for someone doing what I did while I whined about how clean i was, unless I can sign them after the fact for half their salary.
Thats certainly a spin on what he did. How about he supports giving 2nd chances to former dopers, maybe some who others wouldnt, puts them in an environment where they dont feel forced to doped to succeed. Ask them as a team how happy they are (other than Tyler who has fallen 3 straight days, hes not in a talking mood right now) to be in the environment they are where their results are second to doing it clean as a group.
he really has to choose
he can be the clean team that doesn't approve of doping and takes a hard line, but he really has to come clean about His past and explain it thenj, rather than beoijg lowkey and evasive.
or he can be like every one else and hire known dopers and say the past is the past, but shit up about how holier tha n thou his team is, but if his team is so proactive and they really don't care about results if they have to get them by doping why do riders on the team keep getting sanctioned, including one this week.
Styrrell