Comments on: Professional Cyclist Returns Clean Blood Sample!

By: Thomas

Thomas — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 17:33:52 +0000

Testing clean is wonderful after today’s horrible results of Landis! There is a back up test and hopefully that will be different.
Landis and orothers should be turning to the best kept secret that there is for increased energy, endurance and stamina. The secret is finally coming out with The Real Story Behind The Patches. And, yes, tested and green light given, by WADA. What is it! See for yourself the benefits and a who’s who in the Sports World that are using thie patches. http://www.patchsmart.com or http://www.lifewave.com/ffe You will be glad you did.
Have A World Class Day!
Thomas Burke

By: Unknown

Unknown — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 18:03:12 +0000

What?! So YOU’RE not the clean cyclist?Figures.

By: tayfuryagci

tayfuryagci — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 12:33:34 +0000

3 days…no fatty…FAS (fatty abscence syndrome) kicking in…so weak…don’t want to study for the finals (hey its this friday man!)…shivering….cold….darkness…

By: Unknown

Unknown — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 11:00:18 +0000

Now that the Grand Tours have pulled out of the Pro Tour, maybe we’ll our dream tour. Something like your Tour de Trump meets WWF wrestling. No need for drugs tests. No holds barred sprinting. Dirty tricks in the mountains. Spiked water bottles. It could be great.

By: Fat Cyclist

Fat Cyclist — Sun, 11 Dec 2005 19:49:00 +0000

stormcrowe – glad you liked it. and you’re right, this would have hit a hotbutton w/ many readers @ sponsors cyclingnews. i think they were right to pass on this one.rocky – are you telling me that ricky’s not clean? oh, and i made your christmas present today. it involved a hacksaw, a vice, and a heavy-duty file. you’re going to love it.keepYerBag – glad you liked it. i very nearly named the nutritionist Stephen J Solarz, by the way. but in the world of instant research, decided against it.big mike – accurate, me? you insult me, sir!scotxc / tyafur / mochamomma – thanks for the support, man. to be super-duper clear, though, i don’t have any grudge against cyclingnews for not using this piece. they didn’t ask for it, and it would have probably been disruptive to the productive conversation about doping in cycling they’re trying to have. cyclingnews has definitely shown a number of times that they’re not afraid to talk about doping. i think right now they just want to talk about it seriously. to some people, joking about it could make it seem like cyclingnews doesn’t think it’s a serious issue.rickmx – "virenque tests clean" is just too wacky. people wouldn’t be able to suspend disbelief.chucky – but you’re clean, right? cuz if you’re not, man, that would just be too much to take. i couldn’t handle it.mochamomma – hey, congrats on being in "what’s your story" this week. i’m digging your blog. big time.kalmpanick – when you say that piece sucks, you mean it in a nice way, right? botched – "fatire?" that’s genius. next time i come out to utah, let’s ride. i want to see what you’re like in real life.juvenile – i’ve got to admit that i care more about the spectacle than whether they’re clean. give me a show, guys.schmidt – you mean i’m only worth $105K? man, i’ve got to pimp out more links. also, to be clear, i don’t see myself as the "best of" rainmaker. that’s muse monkey. once you’re on her list, it’s only a matter of time.al – what you’re basically proposing is that pros become gladiators. part of me agrees — the more amazing the feat, the more drama, the more danger, the better. but as the gap widens between what those guys can do and what i can imagine myself doing, my personal attachment to pro cycling weakens.pilgrim – is garth brooks the guy who makes those famous saddles?

By: Stephen

Stephen — Sun, 11 Dec 2005 19:21:07 +0000

In the immortal words of Garth Brooks:"Good ride, cowboy. Good ride!"steve

By: Unknown

Unknown — Sun, 11 Dec 2005 18:57:18 +0000

I’m not sure I really want the Tour de to be drug free. The last time they did that – around 1912 – the guy taking the polka dot jersey by winning the Mt. Ventoux climb asked for a handgun, so he could shoot the first Tour organizer he could lay his hands on. Even the great Fausto Coppi faced doping questions when it was discovered that one of his rivals took amphetamines once in a while to help out on the really tough days in the Giro and the Tour. "Do you dope like ____ does?" asked one reporter. "Of course not. Only when absolutely necessary," replied Fausto. "When is that?" asked the next reporter. "Almost all the time." And there you have it. Unlike Ty Cobb’s inside baseball, pro football with 195 pound linemen, the NBA with 6′2" white guys in Chuck Taylors throwing up set shots, and hockey with just toothless Canadians, there probably never was an age when cycling was "clean" and totally in conformity with the politics, the time and the place of its age. And thank God for that. How boring would that be to watch 185 moderately fast, soft spoken and politically correct guys ride decently on bikes, but abjure drugs, excessive suffering, public controversy, needling their opponents for their immutable physical characteristics (Il Elefantino?), going too fast on potentially fatal descents, and engaging in rock-star like off-bike hijinks.

By: Holy

Holy — Sun, 11 Dec 2005 18:43:26 +0000

Thx for the fyi – you were one of many, incidentally, whose name crops up time and again – it’s just kinda weird, that’s all – the ghost of fatty – but heh, your site is worth $105K in Technorati speak or some such #, so $ talks. And Schmidt happens. And your sister IS funny. But I wonder – is it really evolution to go from Air Supply lip syncing & Jordache jean cross dressing to lycra short livin’?

By: Unknown

Unknown — Sun, 11 Dec 2005 17:59:12 +0000

There are obvious flaws in this piece of satire which are probably the reason that it was refused by Cycling News.1. Nobody in pro cycling really cares whether riders are clean or not, so long as there is plenty of suffering on the Tour.2. It too close to the truth.

By: Unknown

Unknown — Sun, 11 Dec 2005 17:56:05 +0000

KalmPanick, I think that there is a spectrum of satire. On one side you have the barely vieled truth slightly twisted for maximum bite and sting. The purpose of this type of satire is to affect social change. Somewhere on the other end of the spectrum is Fatty’s satire (I almost wrote "fatire" but decided that this confused the sentence). It is hyperbolic and it’s purpose is to entertain.Unfortunately, some people (especially attorneys who litigate) can’t tell the difference.Botched