More Fresh Juice: Obee Again
01 Aug 2009, written by moto 1 CommentsIt’s a busy day at the Juicer today, with more domestic news that Kirk O’Bee has been entangled in another Juicing operation. The sad word here: domestic. O’Bee was lucky to even get a spot on Bissell, I hope he doesn’t bring the squad down, because I’ve got friends there who are clean, work hard, and earn every penny of their paychecks. One thing for sure, O’Bee was clean at Cascade, where he finished off the back with the amateurs most days and then DNF’d the last day. The real Kirk O’Bee. Anybody picking up a little bit of resentment that guys like this racing in the U.S. get paid salaries to race, and the only way they can do it is with the extra %? Must be all the pressure of competing in international events like Superweek. Velonews has the details.
The Waiting Game. Astarloza Popped.
01 Aug 2009, written by moto 0 CommentsThe Tour has been over for a few weeks, and now the real fun begins, waiting for the results of the dope controls to come back. The first lying cheat to be exposed is stage 16 winner Mikel Astarloza, who tested positive for good old fashioned straight-up EPO in an out of competition pee party just prior to the start of the Tour. Hey Mikel, didn’t you know, they test for that shit now? Read the words on velonews.
Why Did The Chicken Cross The Road?
27 Jul 2009, written by moto 2 CommentsWhy did The Chicken cross the road? Probably to go see his doctor. As if the end of the Tour isn’t enough of a letdown (we basically now have to wait a full year for Lance to kick Alberto’s ass), we see news that The Chicken is racing again. In Denmark, which hardly counts as racing. Read up on Chicken’s plans to join the ranks of the unemployable after serving out his two-year ban for climbing way faster than anyone (even Alberto) in the Tour. Besides stories like this, we must now suffer being bombarded with headlines of meaningless races that take place between now and the World Championships.