Re: No B sample for Ricco


"samson" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxx> schreef in bericht news:MPG.22fac46c51e0ad129896c4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In article <6fcf75FavdmpU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, benjo.maso@xxxxxxxxx
says...

"jean-yves hervé" <jyh@xxxxxxxxxx> schreef in bericht
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> In article
> <ffa6e2ec-19a4-4f51-9cca-50b8a35c799e@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> Amit Ghosh <amit.ghosh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>> Riccò has withdrawn his request to have a counter-analysis done on the
>> B-sample, but said that the testing procedure needed some work. "Of
>> the 10 controls taken, only two were positive. In theory all the tests
>> should have been positive, therefore the method needs to be checked,"
>> he said.
>
> Doesn't the English translation have the cool parts where he says that:
>
> 1) He was 100% clean during the Giro
> 2) Nobody helped him. He just found out about the stuff and ordered it
> on the Internet.
> 3) He thinks that his admission is a nice gesture
> 4) but he was not looking for clemency.


He also said that what blessed him most in all this business was the
hypocrisy of the cycling world. Hypocrisy?! What is he talking about?
Haven't we entered the era of 'new cycling', clean, honest and frank (except
a few rotten apples of course)?

Benjo

Check your translation. "Blesser" in French is "to wound."

You're right. My only excuse is that I translated it immediately after writing a message in french. It should be 'hurt' of course.

Benjo

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