Double Serving Of The Juice
06 Oct 2009, written by moto 0 CommentsAs if I didn’t have enough to do today, Velonews released all sorts of Juicy stories, aggregated here in the Juice report:
Italian cyclist Gabriele Bosisio (LPR Brakes) got popped in an out-of-competition test for EPO. He was the stage 7 winner of this year’s Giro d’Italia, and was targeted for this out-of-competition due to abnormalities in blood values throughout the season. What did David Millar once say? If someone’s performance looks to good to be true, it’s probably not. Read the whole story.
And in local amateur “donkey-trying-to-race-with-horses” news, a Houston-based amateur named Mitch Comardo (Bike Barn) tested positive for a a whole grip of substances. Not to take the farm animal analogy and further than needed, he claims all of these substances entered his corpus through an over-the-counter male enhancement supplement, but my guess is the old bodybuilder trick of hooking up with a local vet as a supplier. Read the whole story.
Surprise Call From Dark Meat aka Dave Zabriskie
23 Jun 2008, written by 2 CommentsSo my phone rings and it’s an unfamiliar SLC number. Turns out, it is founder and CEO of DZ Nuts chamois creme, Dave Zabriskie. Dave is a professional cyclist with Team Slipstream and a former winner of the Maillot Jaune in the Tour de France. In that opening time trial a few years back, he shocked the world by beating all comers including a retired, silly well-known Texan (see Dickipedia) and everyone’s favorite recreational drug-using former Eastern bloc talent-squanderer Jan Ullrich to claim the leader’s jersey in dramatic fashion in the world’s most televised biking contest. Dave has had his flashes of brilliance on the bike since that historical moment, but some who know him well would argue his real talent is in making people laugh. Here’s to Dave and his wife and new baby, and to a speedy recovery from a nasty fall in the Giro d’Italia, right after helping his team win the opening time trial (editor’s note: Dave is still the only American to have won a stage in all three of the Grand Tours). Shaka.