Comments on: The McCarthy-esque witch hunt http://cogscanthink.blogsome.com/2007/07/26/the-mccarthy-esque-witch-hunt/ I'm feeling pretty good about myself right about now. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:06:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: jayson knight http://cogscanthink.blogsome.com/2007/07/26/the-mccarthy-esque-witch-hunt/#comment-2006 Fri, 27 Jul 2007 04:02:32 +0100 http://cogscanthink.blogsome.com/2007/07/26/the-mccarthy-esque-witch-hunt/#comment-2006 The cycling federation needs to send a clear message to the riders. I say cancel a year's worth of events. That should send a pretty clear message. I love cycling...I used to ride competitively, and I have to say I know exactly how Boogerd feels right now. I don't even want to watch it on TV anymore, much less participate. They are the laughing stock of the professional sports world right now (almost as much as US baseball is), and the atmosphere amongst cyclists I know here in the states is one of shame, and not taking the athletes at that level seriously at all. The cycling federation needs to send a clear message to the riders. I say cancel a year’s worth of events. That should send a pretty clear message.

I love cycling…I used to ride competitively, and I have to say I know exactly how Boogerd feels right now. I don’t even want to watch it on TV anymore, much less participate. They are the laughing stock of the professional sports world right now (almost as much as US baseball is), and the atmosphere amongst cyclists I know here in the states is one of shame, and not taking the athletes at that level seriously at all.

]]> by: Eugenia http://cogscanthink.blogsome.com/2007/07/26/the-mccarthy-esque-witch-hunt/#comment-2004 Fri, 27 Jul 2007 03:16:49 +0100 http://cogscanthink.blogsome.com/2007/07/26/the-mccarthy-esque-witch-hunt/#comment-2004 >Until a French person has the yellow jersey, this which hunt will continue. This is unfair, and not true. Tour de France is a matter of national pride for the French and they really are not going to sacrifice the race just to see a French up there. The "witch hunt" is just because people ARE doping and now they have more ways to see if a sample was clean or not. There are rumors that Armstrong's samples were not clean back then, when they didn't have the technology to detect them yet. But now they do, they try to learn from history and they try to make the race as clean as possible. Now, Rassmusen might or might not be innocent, but thing is he was fired from the national team too, so something smells funny with him anyway. >Until a French person has the yellow jersey, this which hunt will continue.

This is unfair, and not true. Tour de France is a matter of national pride for the French and they really are not going to sacrifice the race just to see a French up there. The “witch hunt” is just because people ARE doping and now they have more ways to see if a sample was clean or not. There are rumors that Armstrong’s samples were not clean back then, when they didn’t have the technology to detect them yet. But now they do, they try to learn from history and they try to make the race as clean as possible. Now, Rassmusen might or might not be innocent, but thing is he was fired from the national team too, so something smells funny with him anyway.

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