Just when everything was going great, some dope decides to be stupid and gets busted for using EPO.
I don't know about you, but I was really starting to enjoy the wide open competition of this year's Tour de France and the lack of the daily reports of riders getting busted for testing positive for one drug or the other. While I not totally naive to believe that no one was going to test positive for drugs this year, I thought there was a great chance.
Since everyone is going to be tested a zillion times, who would be that stupid and disrespectful to the great sport of cycling to try and get away with taking performance enhancing drugs? Well it seems we had at least one taker for that title this year and he is Manuel Beltran. For a 37 year old guy whose best days were well behind him, and who had zero chance to win anything, what was the point? I guess maybe it was his only way to stay on the team and make a living. Sad really.
All the rest of the world (who don't follow cycling regularly) will take from the headlines is that the cyclists are still a bunch of druggies. Obviously not the case. If anything, the rest of the sporting world should take notice and follow the lead of cycling. They are catching the cheaters, unlike to others who are ignoring the issue or sweeping it under the rug.
I appreciate the efforts of the cycling establishment in getting rid of the dopers (I didn't like how Astana was left out of the Tour but that is another story), and I admire the immense talent, skill, and toughness of the cyclists. So I will always be watching my TV every July from day 1 right to the end when the race ends in Paris.
No only if OLN would show more cycling up here in Canada then things would be perfect.
Link to the #$%@*! getting busted yesterday.
http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5i1yQ9pzKB7WfHIg02Ua83vcbmMkw
Til next time.
RH
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