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Pro Tour Buh Bye...

Somewhere in Europe a fat lady is singing.  17 out of 18 Pro Tour teams have taken their collective balls and gone home.  The Pro Tour idea had potemtial and may have worked if the UCI would have been open to actually listening to the concerns of the teams and sponsors but, the UCI seemed more intent on playing the bully and going forward with their ill conceived vision.  Good...

This Can’t Be Good...

I think WADA and the UCI are probably the only ones who were surprised by the Danish study that said the EPO test is less reliable than a coin toss. I really don’t know the answer to the doping problem. I know it will never go away but I am not so jaded that I think declaring a pharmaceutical free for all is right either. I write with wonder about the giants of our sport. ...