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so, what's the concensus on his latest win here - clean, dirty, or who cares i'm over it...?

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I think everyone wants him to be racing clean even if there are some who would prefer he not be back.

I hope he’s clean, I enjoyed his attacking style. It’s hard for me to embrace his return though as he didn’t seem to accept that what he did before was wrong. So I can only hope he makes headlines for the right reasons.
    OT Yesterday’s First EditionCycling News really annoyed me. Why did they feature a story on Jan Ullrich when there was so much good news to report. I would greatly prefer letting old doping news take the back seat. Every time a non repentant doper makes a return I have to wonder when the doping story will not be the “news” and the racing will be the news.

Cyclovia: Bogota www.streetfilms.org/archives/ciclovia/

by flying dog on Oct 19, 2009 12:42 PM EDT reply actions  

hoogerland...

is the rider that attacks like a madman…love the way that guy rides!

cool tribute to vdb in lombardy as well.

hopefully the doping strories will fade as the peloton cleans itself up…there will always be a couple of monkey’s who have egos that make it so they don’t take the good of the sport into consideration.

i always appreciated riis admission…had everything to lose with his team, but decided to come clean.

by rowyco on Oct 19, 2009 2:51 PM EDT reply actions  

We're finally getting some spring weather

around here. It’s forecast to rach 27 degrees today, yay! And not a cloud in the sky :-)

by Lou... on Oct 19, 2009 3:49 PM EDT reply actions  

I'm tempted to flag this post as inappropriate!!! :=)

Cyclovia: Bogota www.streetfilms.org/archives/ciclovia/

by flying dog on Oct 19, 2009 4:57 PM EDT up reply actions  

...except that you know *exactly* what I'm saying, LOL

(and, well, the alternative is to run the risk of being ‘offensive’… but I really do not wish to be offensive!)

by Lou... on Oct 20, 2009 2:46 AM EDT up reply actions  

Oh, hang on...

… that was your point.

Sorry, it has been a very, very long day. I’m not the sharpest knife in the drawer, at the moment…

by Lou... on Oct 20, 2009 3:20 AM EDT up reply actions  

You're having a very bad day...

You’ve been tempted back in here again. The weather has been variable don’t you think? I’m sick of the wind…

"How strange it was to see men doing something beautiful. Something pointless and elegant." Tim Winton, 'Breath'

by Seahorse on Oct 20, 2009 4:40 AM EDT up reply actions  

Urgh... yikes

Thanks, Seahorse ;-)

[Turns, with a flourish of her snow-leopard-fur-trimmed stole, and wanders out into the pleasant 23 degree evening air]

by Lou... on Oct 20, 2009 4:56 AM EDT up reply actions  

LOL! I need my stole tonight... that bloody wind ;)

"How strange it was to see men doing something beautiful. Something pointless and elegant." Tim Winton, 'Breath'

by Seahorse on Oct 20, 2009 5:00 AM EDT up reply actions  

most of the passes closed this weekend

went on a hike and walked in snow (tiny bit) for the first time of the year. Cyclists all in long sleeves. Days getting shorter and shorter. And just like last winter, having amazing plays of light and clouds over the sea in the morning. At least it’s not hot and the crowds of tourists have gone home, making traffic a lot lighter.

by yeehoo on Oct 20, 2009 7:24 AM EDT up reply actions  

Color me a cynical. Vino comes back after a 2-year suspension,

during which he denied everything, and his results are just like all the other cyclists that have come back after 2 years….wait, what was that? They aren’t comparable? Let’s see…2009 results:
1st, Chrono des Nations
1st, Stage 3b / 4, Tour de l’Ain
1st, Asian Time Trial Championship
8th, ITT World Cycling Championship

Yup, he’s just easing into it, nice and slow, isn’t he? Bah, Vino.

by Ruthann on Oct 19, 2009 4:13 PM EDT reply actions  

looked pretty bad whenever i saw him until lombardia

he fizzled there too but seemed to be getting closer. In the vuelta he launched some attack and just died – didn’t finish and abandoned.

by yeehoo on Oct 20, 2009 4:13 PM EDT up reply actions  

It was the Chrono des Nations, quite an insignificant race

and not that impressive of a win when you realize that there weren’t that great of TTists racing. Rasmussen won his first race back at the Vuelta a taco bell dog, a short TT, again nothing that important and shouldn’t really be read into much.

Dammit Elk! I don't care if it's your mating season, you are disturbing my peaceful sleep! Just STFU!

by Phil H. on Oct 19, 2009 6:30 PM EDT reply actions  

yep

back in the day it was a lot bigger…

by Yakko on Oct 20, 2009 5:51 PM EDT up reply actions  

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