Re: Jeanson, episode 2
- From: ilanpsi@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 22:08:27 -0000
On Sep 29, 7:55 pm, "GoneBeforeMyTime" <F...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"lewdvig" <lewd...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1191084649.064249.199390@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Sep 29, 10:46 am, ilan...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Sep 28, 2:09 pm, ilan...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
The 2nd part of the CBC program is now online
athttp://www.radio-canada.ca/sports/cyclisme/2007/09/27/004-Jeanson22h....
She tells how she started taking EPO at 16 because she was anemic and
it was a choice between taking the rest of the season off or
continuing with EPO. Amazingly, her father was present when she got
her first shot. He said he was for it because she was anemic and
losing weight due to her hard training. He said that he later refused
to do anything about the EPO abuse because he didn't want to denounce
his daughter.
GJ also describes how Aubut beat her up and gave her a black eye when
she could not complete a 100 mile ride in training.
So now, we really get the full scope of Aubut's ignorance and
stupdity, he used EPO as a substitue for rest.
-ilan
The show also highlights the ignorance of Jeanson's father. I am
referring to the part where he is interviewed after her Nth victory on
the Mt. Royal hill in Montreal, and he describes her as cannibalizing
her competition, like Eddy Merckx, though he then says he never saw
Eddy Merckx race. OK, so after seeing this, I'm asking myself, didn't
he see Merckx race in Montreal at the 1974 Worlds? Well, maybe not,
but then it occured to me that he probably had no clue that Eddy
Merckx won Worlds in Montreal, and that he constructed that victory on
the same climb up Mt. Royal that his daughter had just raced. That
does take some monumental lack of knowledge.
-ilan
Pretty sad tale, but this is just one part of the story.
The real blame should be on the parents - truning a blind eye to drug,
mental and physical abuse while the cheques kept coming in. I think
90% of parents would have done a better job of protecting their kids.
The one that is mind blowing, is that she cannot complete a training ride,
perhaps really tired from the day before, or whatever reason. So it seems he
takes her out in the desert weeds and beats the crap out of her! That is so
bizzare, you would never hear of that today with top US womens teams. A
manager like that today, would get eaten alive I would think surely, or
perhaps the girls would beat the crap of him!
I remember when I went to school, teachers used to beat the crap out of
kids, I got the board several times from my PE and math teacher. Today,
those guys would be fired instantly, fined plus court preceedings. Perhaps
Aubut had the mentality from those years.
Exactly. In the video, Jeanson describes how that day she was
completely dead tired from racing days before, and that it was
supposed to be a 100 mile ride with intervals, but from the very first
one, she could hardly move forward she was so tired. As you can read
in any book, that is the sure sign of cutting the session short.
Like I said before, there are still a number of 40 or 50 something
Montreal ex-racers who are goon-like, as were many of the riders of
that generation (in a 1982 Montreal race, I got punched in the face
because I went for a prime), so people of Aubut's generation. It's
really too bad for Jeanson, because there are very pleasant,
knowledgeable riders of that generation, e.g., Eric van den Eynde, who
was a top Quebec racer in about 1982 and later became Canadian
national track coach.
-ilan
-ilan
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