Tour de F*cked!
I know no one is really following the Tour de France bike race (except for Nico! YAY! I totally remember Miguel Indurain! Remember when they didn't wear helmets?) ... Anyway, the race is SO FUCKED!
Cyclist, Alexandre Vinokourov, who one 2 stages of the race, was found to have engaged in blood doping - an banned practice. What is blood doping, you ask? I had no idea before this!!
Apparently, this guy had someone else's blood injected into his body before a race stage to raise his red blood cells, which can increase his performance from 5% - 20% because more oxygen can get through his body. It also decreases the lactic acid in your muscles, making them less sore. So, he tested positive for having someone else's blood in his blood stream! OMG!
His cycling team was then asked to leave the race. Sad. The team had just slipped to 2nd place overall.
THEN, yesterday, Michael Rasmussen, the cyclist who lead the race since July 15, was fired from his team hours after winning his second stage for doping suspicion. This is a man who has been the best mountain climber in the race for the past 2 years. He was on track to WIN the race this year!
ALSO, as if that wasn't enough, yet another cycling team withdrew from the race yesterday after the second cyclists on their team failed a drug test.
Is there anyone left riding the race????????
Sad.
8 comments:
I haven't seen any of the race but have been hearing stories about the doping problems. What's the deal? Are officials cracking down on things more than before after what happened with Landis last year? You may be right there will be no one left in the race at the end at this rate.
I remember Miguel Indurain, I'm SPANISH! remember? hahahahah
I haven't followed this year's race, but i used to...and my uncle is a big fan also...so you're not alone sweetie :D
MWAH!
Dang! I've had the Tour de France on the background a couple of times but haven't really been following it. I like hearing the commentators even if I don't know anything about the cyclists. Sorry to hear about the blood doping. It's been going on for years.
I just realized your tag for this post was "wtf." Hah!
I think you should petition the tour officials to change the name to your blog post. It's soooo true...and I love it!
It really is a shame though.
Go Cadel Evans!!! Gotta love the aussie boy for comming in second and repping for our country. What a little beauty!
I followed the Tour de Farce...
We had a SA team for the first time. What a mess.
I miss you girl.
over here we call it tour de farce now ;D
it is silly, i have no idea how all this shit will work out. i mean the whole thing is hypocritical. the sponsors quit the contracts now, what is supersilly because the money is the whole problem of the shit. and this whole race isn't about bicycleriding anymore it's just the drugindustry against the controllers ... just say it is so and everything is fine i say. let them take whatever they want. why trying to "protect" them. it's just moral issues and what the fuck is moral worth??? ask the sponsors i say. ask them, what they pay vinokurov per year, that's a price of moral, and i bet my cute little ass that there are enough drivers who are cheaper than him. it is like it is, and it has been that way since the early beginnings of the tour. i mean what the fuck? this race is inhumane ... three weeks through france, nearly 200 kilometers a day, through the alpes and pyrenees, just three days of rest, no human being can do this without chemicals. it was impossible and it is impossible. not with a medial speed of over 40 km/h and now they drive these speeds UPHILL!!! i mean what do this hypocrits of presspeople think??? yes, it is doping involved. it is since decades, don't act surprised silly bastards. the cyclists are machines. and they are experimenting with different fuels. this is no sport anymore, it is profession (if i am allowed to recite our driver rudi altig who confessed using illegal substances in 1969) i mean tom simpson died after amphetamin abuse in 1967.
don't get me wrong, i don't say it is right, to use drugs, but it is a fact. and it is not since this year. the problem exists for a long time. and i am just sick about the whole mr. clean trashtalk of the ones that aren't caught yet. they all use different stuff to increase their performance. i just say tell it. tell it like it is. you are no human beings anymore, you are machines. be honest godamnit. they are all grownups, and if they like to kill themselves, go for it. i am just sick of this hypocracy!
wow, this was a long rant ;D
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