Dealing with the dopers American style

Submitted by News on Sat, 08/12/2006 - 3:37pm

Party boy Jan Ullrich's problems keep getting worser and worser. Now his former team, Coast, is turning on him. They want to look into those Operación Puerto records to see if Ullrich was doping while on their payroll. If so they want their money back.

Jan's got to like them apples.

Disgraced German rider Jan Ullrich may be forced to pay money back to his former team Coast, who he rode with in the 2003 season, with former team sponsor Gunther Dahms accusing him of a breach of contract.

The 32-year-old former Olympic champion was barred from competing in this year's Tour de France after being implicated in a doping scandal when he was accused of collaborating with a doctor organising a blood-doping network.

Dahms is now keen to discover whether Ullrich breached his contract when he rode for the Coast team and could seek financial compensation if evidence is forthcoming.

"In the Coast team contract we reached an agreement with Ullrich that doping was prohibited," Dahms said in Spiegel magazine. ... Read more

Makes you wonder about whiney boy Floyd Landis. Mr. no-Credibility himself might lose his yellow jersey, but that might only be the beginning of his problems. The International Association of Professional Cycling Teams (The pro teams themselves have their own organization. Who knew?) is threatening to sue Floyd for the damage he's done to the image of cycling.

We should take him to court for what he is now doing to cycling.
-- Patrick Lefevere

Lefevere is President of the association. He might have a case too. Comunidad Valenciana just announced they will drop their association with pro cycling as of August 20. (scroll down for the article)

Maybe that's the answer to cycling's dope addiction. Deal with it American style, take everyone associated with it to court. Sue them back into 1997.

bobber's picture

Everyone

bobber wrote 5 years 25 weeks ago

Too much whining by everyone I'd say. They need to let this process run it's course. See this blog for some good discussion.

Unit's picture

So....

Unit wrote 5 years 25 weeks ago

I am some guy who cycles in central Missouri....since I am a cyclist, should I feel entitled to something....since Floyd has damaged cycling....

Man, what the world needs now is a few more litigations.

Running its course

News wrote 5 years 25 weeks ago

Can't disagree with you there. Half the fun is guessing which course this river's going to take next. Like Floyd's reasons for failing the T/E test:

  1. He ate something that raised his testosterone
  2. His cortisone shots for pain in his dead hip
  3. Drinking beer and whiskey the night before the test (An excuse which never worked for me in college.)
  4. His thyroid medication, natural metabolism and dehydration

I can't wait to see what he comes up with next.

Like a river that don't know where it's flowin'
I took a wrong turn and I just kept goin'.
-- Bruce Springsteen, "Hungry Heart", The River (1980)