CrazyIvan
Reged: 18/07/2008
Posts: 50
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Of course it was only the once.... apparently.
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news/2008/jul08/jul30news3
"Italian Riccardo Riccò confessed to taking EPO to the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) prosecutor, Ettore Torri on Wednesday. Riccò tested positive for the drug following stage four of the Tour de France, forcing his team to pull its entire squad from the race."
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Smokin_Joe
Reged: 09/06/2006
Posts: 1677
Loc: Fishguard
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ARE YOU LISTENING, FLOYD?
-------------------- Nobody ever got laid because they rode Shimano.
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le_petit_grimpeur
Reged: 29/05/2008
Posts: 73
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ARE YOU LISTENING, FLOYD?
..feel better now?
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CrazyIvan
Reged: 18/07/2008
Posts: 50
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Ricco is having his samples from the Giro re-tested, this time for Cera and with the new testing capabilities. I guess his honesty will now be under the microscope so to speak.
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thatwomanagain
Reged: 30/07/2006
Posts: 1959
Loc: Hugh Porter country...
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While they're at it they should take a few of Sella's Giro samples out of the fridge too!
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MsTree
Reged: 28/11/2007
Posts: 229
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Good boy! Wonder who he was more frightened of? Coni or his mum not speaking to him?
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CrazyIvan
Reged: 18/07/2008
Posts: 50
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He is Italian, it is always the mama.
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bfergie
Reged: 19/04/2008
Posts: 1614
Loc: Wickerman land,Scotland
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Or the fear of waking up with a horses head!
-------------------- VOTE PENGUIN!!!
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ToneFloat
Reged: 13/08/2007
Posts: 67
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Or the fear of waking up with a horses head!
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bfergie
Reged: 19/04/2008
Posts: 1614
Loc: Wickerman land,Scotland
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. that has made my day!
-------------------- VOTE PENGUIN!!!
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thatwomanagain
Reged: 30/07/2006
Posts: 1959
Loc: Hugh Porter country...
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While they're at it they should take a few of Sella's Giro samples out of the fridge too!
Ha!! I got that one right then!!
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CrazyIvan
Reged: 18/07/2008
Posts: 50
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It was a good call too.
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Bluebeard
Reged: 27/03/2008
Posts: 329
Loc: Brixton innit
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From *ahem* another website that gives News about Cycling:
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Former Saunier Duval-Scott rider Riccardo Riccò has named Carlo Santuccione as the supplier of the EPO that he used during the Tour de France, according to Italian newspaper La Repubblica. Riccò who won two stages before being thrown off the race for a doping violation, told that he paid 700 euro for the third generation EPO named CERA.
"I have not paid, naturally," said Riccò. "Santuccione assured me you could not be found positive. So I did not give him the money."
Santuccione is widely known in professional cycling as 'Ali de Chemist' and in the late '90s the former doctor was suspended for his involvement in a doping affair. In 2004 he was also arrested after the prescription of the performance-enhancing drugs anabolic steroids, growth hormone and EPO.
This year the doctor was relieved from his post for life. Santuccione is the former doctor of Danilo Di Luca and former professional Rodolfo Massi, who was discredited during the Festina-Affair in 1998.
You have got to love his attitude: "I have not paid, naturally. Santuccione assured me you could not be found positive. So I did not give him the money."
-------------------- You can take a bike to water but you cannot make it drink
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