Tommeke in Monaco...
by gregm on Jul 1, 2009 11:15 PM EDT
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Look who just arrived in Monaco!
via www.sport.be
L'affaire Boonen sera examinée aujourd'hui par la Chambre arbitrale du Comité olympique français, qui se prononcera immédiatement et de manière définitive. Le Belge est interdit de Tour de France pour un contrôle positif à la cocaïne.
(http://www.arcinfo.ch/journal/sports/tout-le-sport/article/178213.html)
...which works out to "Boonen's case will be examined today by the French Olympic Committee, which will immediately make a definitive ruling. The Belgian has been blocked from the Tour due to a positive test for blow."
Hit reload on these news.google.be and news.google.fr links... that's what I'll be doing tonight! Midnight Pacific is 9am in France...
-Greg
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He moved back to Belgium to be with his girlfriend and try and stay out of trouble
But yeah he did..
"When he accelerates, he's like Superman emerging from the telephone booth!" La Gazzetta journo Paolo Condo talking about Edvald Boasson Hagen.
by Helsy33 on Jul 2, 2009 10:05 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Age of Consent
is 15 in Monaco. 16 in Belgium.
by Sui Juris on Jul 2, 2009 11:01 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
OMFG
Please please please please
Let Tommeke Ride.
by samboo on Jul 2, 2009 12:07 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Thank god
this story might soon be over…
Your power is turning our darkness to dawn,
Roll on Columbia, Roll on!
by Chris... on Jul 2, 2009 1:07 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Good...
Can’t wait to see him start.
by Vlaanderen90 on Jul 2, 2009 1:26 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
+1
who will be at the team presentation? Please Tommeke! Not that I don’t like Davis…I just beleive that Boonen should be riding the Tour.
by cyclingdiva on Jul 2, 2009 9:31 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
That's a funny one...both? Neither?
Hell knows!
Adrenalina Italiana!
by Albertina on Jul 2, 2009 9:55 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Am I the only one
Who wants to see his team mate “Alby” get a start instead?
"Age and treachery will overcome youth and skill" - Fausto Coppi
by muk on Jul 2, 2009 1:29 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
I'm sure there are others...
and Alby was at the Giro and wasn’t half bad with one second place and 2 thirds. But you have to go back to the comment: would you rather want " a guy whose doping was detailed in Puerto or a guy who got busted for coke twice out of competition." I don’t really care who start…Alby is on my VDS but I have too much love for Boonen.
by Vlaanderen90 on Jul 2, 2009 2:01 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
The hearing will be held this Thursday at 15 pm at the Maison du Sport in Paris french. The verdict will be delivered no later than Friday 3 July, the day before the start of the Tour.
english google translation of le figaro
L’audience se déroulera ce jeudi à 15 heures à la Maison du sport français à Paris. Le verdict sera rendu au plus tard le vendredi 3 juillet, soit à la veille du départ du Tour
"Wizard's first rule. People are stupid. They will believe anything they want to be true or fear to be true." -- Terry Goodkind
by umwolverine on Jul 2, 2009 5:39 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
He'll have a lot of aggro
if he is allowed to ride. I think he’s capable of a “Theo Bos” under these circumstances.
That reminds me, wasn’t Theo up for an UCI hearing this week?
"Where there’s a will, there’s a way.": Alberto Contador, shortly after waking up from brain surgery.
by Lopex on Jul 2, 2009 5:43 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Theo Bos decision will be long delayed
as the court will need to read and re-read the PdC thread(s) on the topic many times before making an informed decision.
by Jens on Jul 2, 2009 5:45 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I think nobody will ever here from this case again
All for the better if you ask me.
"Where there’s a will, there’s a way.": Alberto Contador, shortly after waking up from brain surgery.
by Lopex on Jul 2, 2009 6:04 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
here = hear
Or was it hare or hair or heir or …
FRINKSTER I need some help here!
"Where there’s a will, there’s a way.": Alberto Contador, shortly after waking up from brain surgery.
by Lopex on Jul 2, 2009 6:05 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Boonen
is one of my favorite riders, and the idea that he would bring the tour into disrepute by riding is ridiculous. As if the Tours reputation was all that stellar in the first place. Anyway, no media will pay attention to Tommeke with HWMNBN back in the peloton.
by Huntero on Jul 2, 2009 9:38 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
+1 I agree!
People love Boonen. He is the nicest guy, so good to his supporters and the sport. This whole line of crap about bring shame to the Tour is all politics! He has done so much good for this sport it really pisses me off. Oh well. I really need to face the fact that he will not be riding the Tour, again.
by cyclingdiva on Jul 2, 2009 10:00 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
still can't stand him
"Wizard's first rule. People are stupid. They will believe anything they want to be true or fear to be true." -- Terry Goodkind
by umwolverine on Jul 2, 2009 10:52 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
That is one cool outfit it has to be said
Adrenalina Italiana!
by Albertina on Jul 2, 2009 11:01 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Love the jersey...love the whole kit!
and they got new bikes too.
by cyclingdiva on Jul 2, 2009 11:09 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Actually it is just a new bike for him...
he had it at the Belgian championships
by Vlaanderen90 on Jul 2, 2009 1:51 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
It sounds like just 3 of them
got the new bikes. Didn’t realize he had it for the championships.
by cyclingdiva on Jul 2, 2009 2:59 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Davis has one too. He tweeted it.
Adrenalina Italiana!
by Albertina on Jul 2, 2009 6:25 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
There was a picture and everything!
Adrenalina Italiana!
by Albertina on Jul 2, 2009 6:53 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
They have those bikes at my LBS
they keep them in the back. Away from the other bikes.
by Jens on Jul 2, 2009 3:49 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
witch-hunt
I love that photo! Is that the face of a pedophile (statutory rapist), drug dealin’ outlaw? More like a kid whose parents let him fly by himself for the first time.
by Koppenberg34 on Jul 2, 2009 9:43 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Well
Only because I feel compelled to fight back against the insanity that has gripped my dear old England on the matter will I point out that “pedophile” is a batshit insane label, here. Banging a 16 year old? Creepy bordering (perhaps more than) troubling. Pedophile? Let’s put away the pitchforks.
by Sui Juris on Jul 2, 2009 10:46 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
to be clear
I cant tell from your reply…so to be clear, my post speaks out against the bearers of the pitchforks with which you speak. He had a relationship with a 16 (going on 26) year old girlfriend that violated no statutary laws. I offer no more creedence to the notion that he was the coke connection to the peloton than I do the assertion that he’s guilty of statutory rape.
by Koppenberg34 on Jul 3, 2009 1:11 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Even in England that would be legal
unless he tried to take a photo. Or they shared a cigarette afterwards.
by Monty. on Jul 3, 2009 3:28 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
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