Following the success of the US Postal team the English Post Office are to enter a team in next year's tour.

Lance Armstrong has agreed to lead the new EPO team and every other rider will have a place guaranteed. Every official and trainer has agreed to support EPO and will turn a blind eye to EPO when necessary. They are expected to shoot up the rankings.

Only cheats need apply.

Very punny. :D

Wish I'd thought of that :rolleyes:

Very amusing Donut :rolleyes: [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Yep, very funny, don't know where he gets 'em from [img]smile.gif[/img]

Some of us have got it and some ain't!!!

BTW - Neil's coming to visit me tonight, don't get jealous! ;)

I sense a certain bitterness there in your initial post... I take it you're not bothering to watch the Tour this year? ;)

Interesting. This will be true when pigs will fly.

Xen, I think this is what Donut was playing with. And just when I thought it had crept under his radar :D

from the ABC site

"An investigation into allegations of drug use by five of Australia's elite cyclists has found that there is insufficient evidence for any charges to be laid.

Banned rider Mark French had accused team-mates Graeme Brown, Jobie Dajka, Sean Eadie, Shane Kelly and Brett Lancaster of using his room at the Australian Institute of Sport in Adelaide as a 'shooting gallery' to inject illegal substances.

Retired Supreme Court judge Robert Anderson QC handed his report into the allegations to the Australian Sports Commission (ASC) on Friday night.

Finding there was not enough evidence to substantiate the claims, Mr Anderson reportedly called French's reliability as a witness into question.

Mr Anderson reportedly wrote that French had qualified his claims of drug abuse "almost to vanishing point" and said that in effect he had almost withdrawn the allegations.

Cycling Australia (CA) chief executive officer Graham Fredericks welcomed the dismissal of the charges.

But he warned that the sport now faced a tough battle to regain the trust of the Australian public."


I hope the go through the whole lot of them with the strictest of drug checks every day. Drug cheats Like French really piss me off and the stain they leave on others that surround them never really goes away.

I don't think he means just these guy's, the sports rife with it, some people are just a bit shrewder than others.

On the topic of sport Lanesra, I hear that your cricketers got the Bronze a couple of days ago in the Nat-West thingy. Congratulations on achieving a podium finish - your lads must be rightly proud :D

Is it true that I hear that Saddam will accept the death penalty as long as he gets to chose the taker - I am betting he has David Beckham in mind ;) .

Stop me if you have heard these before [img]graemlins/heee.gif[/img]

Q: Why aren't the England football team allowed to own a dog?
A: Because they can't hold on to a lead.
Q: What's the difference between the England team and a tea-bag?
A: The tea-bag stays in the cup longer.


Q: Why do English make better lovers than Portugese/Germans?
A: Because English are the only ones who can stay on top for 90 Minutes and
still come second!

Q: What is common between a 3 pin plug and the England football team?
A: They are both useless in Europe!


Q: What's the difference between O J Simpson and England?
A: OJ Simpson had a more credible defence


Rumours that David Beckham was seen successfully seducing a young woman in a
Spanish nightclub with a one-liner have been completely refuted by the English
FA, their chief publicity officer stated: "I find it totally preposterous to
suggest that one of our players could make a successful pass to or at anyone."

Apparently David Beckham has been offered the job as stadium announcer
for all England's Euro 2004 games. An FA Spokesman said "We heard David comes
over the PA very well"


Oxo were going to bring out a Euro 2004 Commemorative cube painted red, white
and blue in honour of the England squad. But it was a laughing stock and
crumbled in the box.

Who cares about cycling anyway? It's got to be THE most boring sport to watch except for maybe curling. [img]graemlins/yawn.gif[/img]

I really do admire Donut's subtle sense of humour [img]tongue.gif[/img]

[ 07-07-2004, 07:00 PM: Message edited by: Vaskez ]

Is Shane taking part in the tour this year ?

Knock, knock

He's got to ask his Mum!

I can't watch it without wondering who's on drugs. Bit like the athletics.

Not really Wellard. What sparked it off was David Millar's admission that he's taken EPO three times.

At least he had the balls to come clean about it.

I disagree, it's not that bad. Especially not during one of the classics or in any uphill stages in the Tour. [img]smile.gif[/img]
Now a tennis match, that's just plain torture. ;)

For completeness' sake, he admitted using EPO at a time in his career when it hadn't been banned yet under UCI rulings.

;) I dunno, tennis can be quite enthralling to watch at times, although it can also be boring as you say. At least it's not boring ALL the time.

The boring image of cycling is only used to discourage the neanderthal/hooligan type of sports fan. ;)

Bwahaha, that's brilliant, G. The "boring image"! So what you're saying is that underneath that there's an immensely exciting phenomenon just waiting to get out and enthrall the masses? [img]graemlins/hehe.gif[/img]

You'd be surprised.

Gee - no response on the Nat West Medal - I thought you English types were proud of your sporting successes? :D

Gee - no response on the Nat West Medal - I thought you English types were proud of your sporting successes? :D </font>[/QUOTE]Knock, Knock..

For completeness' sake, he admitted using EPO at a time in his career when it hadn't been banned yet under UCI rulings. </font>[/QUOTE]And he had saved the syringes as "souvenirs". As you do!

Such wonderful baits I am throwing out, and I just can't get a nibble [img]smile.gif[/img] .

Norway won this day Thor Husov is the champion hehe i like that hoho :D :D

Who's there?

Biggish