 Saturday, May 26, 2007
Cycling needs to clean up its act!
The 1996 Tour de France winner, Danish cyclist Bjarne Riis, finally admitted Friday he used performance-enhancing drugs during the 1996 tour. (True fans always knew this to be true.) The second and third place finishers in 1996 were also dogged by drug allegations. The uber cyclist and Armstrong arch rival Jan Ullrich of Germany was second and Frenchman Richard Virenque was third. Ullrich retired in February after being implicated in Operation Puerto, the Spanish investigation into an alleged blood doping ring. Last month, German authorities matched Ullrich’s DNA sample to blood bags seized in Spain. So who should the 1996 title go to, the 4th place guy? He was probably doping too.
Lance Armstrong has always faced allegations and last year Floyd Landis failed a drug test after his victory, his innocence or guilt not yet determined.
You think Professional Baseball has issues, Professional Cycling has a major problem. If Cycling does not clean up its act, it will lose all its fans. I think that there has to be independent oversight since so many people seem to have been getting away with doping. The International Cycling Union seems to have been asleep at the wheel.
Posted by a raging mad Steve in New York.
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