Right here

A donkey doesn’t byump twice to the same stone.. Do they?

Would be my headline

And put it down in normal letters please… He doesn’t deseve this much attention!

And there goes his Tour… But he can prepare for the World Champio now.. It’s also a beautifull course

B ecause it’s his second time he can have go to prison.. He had, google say, suspended sentence.. Because it’s the second time they are going to punish him.. They say a punnishment is unavoidable..

Nice to know.. It was 15 days after his victory in Parijs Roubaix

Reaction Boonens laywer: Human mistake

Hope he gets thrown in the slammer for a bit in July so he can turn his act around. Quick Step should have written in a rehab clause into his new contract.

http://www.eurosport.fr/cyclisme/boonen-encore._sto1933424/story.shtml

And the damning comment that as one year follows another they are all alike for Boonen!

If Im reading it right -it also says as sentence last time is still suspended his bail money from the last offence will now be automatically forfeited.

“Je kunt je inbeelden dat ik hier niet sta te dansen in mijn living. Ik ben diep ontgoocheld”, zegt Patrick Lefevere, “maar zal niet officieel reageren voor ik de sponsors van ons team, en dan vooral de hoofdsponspor, heb gesproken.” "Ik wil me niet laten leiden door woede. Ik probeer nu de gevolgen in te schatten, maar weet het allemaal niet meer. Of ik Tom al gesproken heb? Ja, maar daar wil ik niets over kwijt.

What a category 1 idiot. WHY? All that talk about having turned his life around…..what rot. I forgave him last time but I don’t know how I can support him again now. I cheered myself hoarse for this guy in Arenberg. Why did I bother?

Will QS forgive him this time I wonder? To wreck your great career for a high which surely can’t be as great a high as winning PR….I just don’t understand….especially as he knew he was risking prison….ugh, I just don’t know what to think any more.

here

“If he was racing with any other team, he would have been thrown out already,”

Belgian federation (LVB) chief Tom Van Damme

Now I’m no coke-expert but that’s not the end you put it in Tom.

and seeing if he’s all right.

Let me say first off that I’m sure there were discussions about this last year on this site, I didn’t take part in them. Also, I don’t know much about coke, how addictive it is, etc.

But to my knowledge – not very substantial, admittedly – this is a party drug. I have a very good friend who grew up in Mexico City with quite a bit of money. When she was in her late teens and early twenties, she would go out most weekends, do a bunch of coke, and stay up til dawn. Then, somewhere in her late twenties, she just stopped doing it as she stopped going out so much. In other words, she describes it as a party drug – it wasn’t anything she ever became addicted to (unless maybe you can describe this as an addiction), just something she did to have fun. If anything it sounds less abusive than kids who go out every weekend and drink themselves sick.

Anyways like I said I’m hardly an expert on this stuff – maybe the effects of coke are way worse than I understand. But to me, reading nothing but this report, it just looks like Boonen’s young and loves to party. Am I missing something…is this really so bad?

here – the Google translation makes it sound like he’s saying the problem is actually alcohol, “Someone should teach me to understand what happens when I drink too much” – can anyone confirm/clarify the translation?

it’s generally acknowledged that drinkers frequently exercise poor judgement… A dependent personality often has more than one substance issue.
Note too that many people comment on the addictive quality of winning. While not saying anything specific here, I’m just seeing some traits that might be linked…

Always saw him as a big Dufus but couldn’t put my finger on it. Then he started his premature celebrations at the line or celebrating with guys up the road, but this is some serious confirmation of his Dufus-dom.

That’s two big strikes and probably another exclusion from the Tour. What will QuikStep do now? What will the sanctioning bodies do? Looky bad for Boom Boom

Cocaine isn’t illegal out of competition. Why are anti-doping officials testing for it? Neither the UCI nor WADA has any business testing for substances that they can’t take action on. And both those organizations have ethical prohibitions against leaking things to the media.

You can expect a rant on this topic from me later today.

reportedly also had traces of cocaine in the A sample of his drug test.

Maybe Boonen wants to be banned from the Tour because he does not think he can compete well with Cavendish for the Green Jersey…

I’m sure somebody out there could remind me of the details from a story last year. There was a Belgian continental pro that got popped for cocain then cited BoomBoom as his dealer. If I recall, he claimed it was a well known and well kept secret that
 he scored coke for others as well. Seems to me that he’s probably not suffering from a habit so much as a lack of will power while in the midst of the nightclub environment. This spiral (from the 190km drunken car wreck to the underage womanizing, to the recreational drug indulgance) reminds me an awful lot of Jan Ulrich’s ecstasy bust/car wreck/etc. Hopefully he’ll come back in the way of a certain 6X KoM TDF champ and housewife favorite, more popular and likable than ever.
It seems like recreational drugs that have no sporting effect, are given a bit of a one time pass by the governing bodies that be, since it doesn’t prove a person to be a cheat, just suceptable to moronic behavior like the rest of us. Remember Gilberto Simoni’s coke positive a few years back? He claimed it was a throat lozenge that got him popped, but really…..I mean seriously, its as bad an excuse as anybody, but he still got a pass – but once.