And now it gets weird (Lotto to sue Astana)

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Predictor-Lotto to sue Vino and Astana…The Predictor-Lotto ProTour team is planning on filing a claim against Alexandre Vinokourov and his Astana team for loss of publicity. The Kazakh rider won the Stage 13 time trial before testing positive for blood doping, taking away victory from Predictor-Lotto’s Cadel Evans who finished second on the stage and currently holds second on general classification. If Vinokourov is found guilty and disqualified from the race, Evans will be declared the winner of the stage, however will obviously have missed the publicity benefits associated with a stage victory in the prestigious race.

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news/2007/jul07/jul26news3

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Good! I hope they get a major judgment. Make the teams REALLY want to have clean teams. I just hope that they don’t think it is so risky a sport to have athletes in that they cut sponsorship.

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adds some weight to this thread doesn’t it ;o)

http://forum.slowtwitch.com/gforum.cgi?post=1409084;search_string=whiner;#1409084
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