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Italian Gabriele Bosisio (LPR Brakes-Farnese Vini) tested positive for blood booster Erythropoietin (EPO) in an out-of-competition control, according to press agency RCD. The International Cycling Union (UCI) tested Bosisio September 2 at his home in Rogeno, Italy.

Bosiso, master helper of Di Luca. Won a stage in the Giro 2007 and wore the pink jersey for a couple of days.

When do we get the denial and the story of the big unjustice he has to deal with. In an hour?
When do we get the story oops.. maybe i did it.. But it was just once. After the B-sample? Also my guess..

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I am so shocked that I have to st down.

And after such a great year too. That 87th placing at Brixia is the stuff legends are made from!

Plus I can’t imagine anyone on LPR doping.

Let’s see… he turned 29 this August so he’s in the prime of his career. Physically he should not be stronger. And he got caught doping.

by ursula on Oct 6, 2009 10:17 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

But he did have a great year

His job was to help DiLuca win the Giro and that nearly succeeded. CQ points only tell you so much.

This has to filed in the “least surprising news of -09” category though

by Jens on Oct 6, 2009 10:59 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

I don;t remember Bosisio anywhere near Killer during the Giro

Of course that might be because the camera was on someone else.

by ursula on Oct 6, 2009 11:09 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

I missed the last days

but I seem to recall him being there until the final selection as usual? Could be mistaken.

by Jens on Oct 6, 2009 11:17 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

I remember him too

always at the front until the last few k.

by Monty. on Oct 6, 2009 4:05 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

yep

did a good TT too, was 8th (in the 60km one)

by Bruce Suomi on Oct 6, 2009 4:27 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Oh lordy.

Helsy will not like this….

"If I were World Road Race Champion, I would wear black shorts. That probably has more to do with me being on the wiser side of 30 and understanding better that the decisions I make now never really go away. White shorts would not be something I'd be proud of...." - David Millar, in Rouleur.

by Albertina on Oct 6, 2009 10:30 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Helsy likes Valverde..

You have to deal with this kind of things than.

by Frinking on Oct 6, 2009 10:37 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Mean!

Venga Caisse d'Epargne!

by Helsy33 on Oct 6, 2009 11:58 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Bah.

I can’t believe how much I stood up for him and slated Di Luca and then…this. Gah!!!! :(
Normally when i see a rider caught for doping i’m just like yeah, ok. But this one actually sucks, oh Gabriele…

Venga Caisse d'Epargne!

by Helsy33 on Oct 6, 2009 12:00 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

I know...this one's a bit icky. I kinda liked the guy too!

"If I were World Road Race Champion, I would wear black shorts. That probably has more to do with me being on the wiser side of 30 and understanding better that the decisions I make now never really go away. White shorts would not be something I'd be proud of...." - David Millar, in Rouleur.

by Albertina on Oct 6, 2009 4:53 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Second verse

same as the first

by Jimbo... on Oct 6, 2009 9:55 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Wow...Another shining example of why I am just so damn proud that the UCI isn't going to require Pro Conti Teams

to be in the bio passport starting next year. Those teams are always so clean and do it the right way…

by Vlaanderen90 on Oct 6, 2009 11:56 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

But they are required to be in the bio passport program

If they want wild card status and participate in the “historical” races. Or will UCI change that?

Staring at the swim team gets you killed by a gang of dancing ninja men who know how to twirl.

by TheFigurehead on Oct 6, 2009 12:17 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

They changed it for 2010...I found the article on cycling news that they stuck it into but it says that

“Meanwhile, it was also decided that the separate classification for Professional Continental teams participating in the UCI’s biological passport programme will be scrapped due to a lack of interest. "
It would be in there best interest to be in some kind of program but it isn’t required

by Vlaanderen90 on Oct 6, 2009 12:40 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

yeah I remember that...

Lack of interest on the part of whom, precisely? Teams? Race organizers? The UCI?

As I understood it, the main prohibiting factor for teams (apart from sheer unwillingness) was the amount the UCI were charging to be part of it. That might be what caused the “lack of interest”, I guess. But it is worrying.

by civetta on Oct 6, 2009 2:54 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

I didn't think that there was any lack of interest

a few of the smaller teams were a bit hacked off that the UCI rather arbitrarily rejected their application to join the whole team programme and instead stiffed them for the rather more expensive per rider version, but they pretty much all signed up.

by Monty. on Oct 6, 2009 4:09 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

You can read the original UCI press release

here. I’ve still no idea what “decided to abandon the classification of UCI Professional Continental Teams participating in the biological passport programme as it had not stimulated the anticipated interest” actually means

by Monty. on Oct 6, 2009 4:11 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Thought the title said Basso at first...whoof luckily not

eh another Di Luca puppet got caught, what’s new? How on Earth is LPR not dead yet?

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 6, 2009 12:16 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

A little loss of blood.

Nothing an IV won’t fix right up.

by fancan on Oct 6, 2009 2:32 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

but if untreated an infection can get in

and you could lose a limb. Best to amputate the LPR team and hopefully save the peloton.

As soon as I saw the LPR logo on the photo (I’m not as knowledgeable as you guys) I thought “Oh, no suprise there, then”.

by Simon_E on Oct 6, 2009 4:56 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

He just considered testing positive

Didn’t actually go through with it.

by LurkerMcLurkerson on Oct 7, 2009 7:40 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

You are on a roll tonight :)

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

by Seahorse on Oct 7, 2009 7:44 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

(Bosisio, not Bosiso)

by tedvdw on Oct 6, 2009 1:03 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Marco Pinotti

tweets:

flashback: national champs TT, I look left and right, but the two spots are empty…

by civetta on Oct 6, 2009 3:12 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Biondo was also the name

of this year’s Romanian entry to the Eurovision song contest

by Monty. on Oct 6, 2009 4:14 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

I'm stunned and appalled that you remember that

"If I were World Road Race Champion, I would wear black shorts. That probably has more to do with me being on the wiser side of 30 and understanding better that the decisions I make now never really go away. White shorts would not be something I'd be proud of...." - David Millar, in Rouleur.

by Albertina on Oct 6, 2009 5:00 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

How about

Italy 1958?
Norway 1966? (she would have walked it with “Er hat ein knallrotes Gummiboot”)

by Monty. on Oct 6, 2009 5:18 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

that was cool

i like that guy.

by gavia on Oct 6, 2009 4:37 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

It was good

but not so good I really meant to post it twice.

Always interesting to see who he says he’s out training with, Pinotti, too.

by civetta on Oct 6, 2009 7:54 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Marco Pinotti

tweets:

flashback: national champs TT, I look left and right, but the two spots are empty…

by civetta on Oct 6, 2009 3:13 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Pinotti

unrivaled.

ABRUZZIAM...uh oh

by Chris... on Oct 6, 2009 4:09 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

but then

we are talking about the crono, and we all know this discipline is biased against Italians (not named Pinotti or Coppi).

ABRUZZIAM...uh oh

by Chris... on Oct 6, 2009 4:09 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Oy LPR

Will Irish Cycling ever recover?

ABRUZZIAM...uh oh

by Chris... on Oct 6, 2009 4:08 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

SO Please tell me

Why he was tested only a month ago and they were able to share test results …. and yet for anyone famous it seems to take much longer.

Moo

by Willj on Oct 6, 2009 4:21 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Famous?

don’t you mean Spanish?

by Monty. on Oct 6, 2009 4:26 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

post summer holidays too

the labs appear to be shut for all of August, for some reason

by civetta on Oct 6, 2009 5:57 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

tis true, actually

once spent a whole August in Paris & nearly died of starvation because it was practically impossible where I was staying (Passy, horribly enough) to find anywhere to eat or buy food

by civetta on Oct 6, 2009 6:49 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

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