New team in next year's Tour de France

Donut · 07-06-2004, 06:34 PM

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.

johnny · 07-06-2004, 06:45 PM

Very punny.

Lanesra · 07-06-2004, 10:26 PM

Wish I'd thought of that

Lauren · 07-06-2004, 11:00 PM

Very amusing Donut

[img]tongue.gif[/img]

Lanesra · 07-07-2004, 12:11 AM

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

Donut · 07-07-2004, 09:20 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Lanesra:
Wish I'd thought of that

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

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

Grojlach · 07-07-2004, 12:25 PM

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

Xen · 07-07-2004, 03:06 PM

Interesting. This will be true when pigs will fly.

wellard · 07-07-2004, 04:45 PM

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

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that French had qualified his claims of drug abuse "almost to vanishing point" and said that in effect he had almost withdrawn the allegations.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

Lanesra · 07-07-2004, 05:43 PM

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

07-06-2004, 06:34 PM	#1
Donut Jack Burton Join Date: March 1, 2001 Location: Airstrip One Age: 40 Posts: 5,571	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. __________________ [img]\"http://www.wheatsheaf.freeserve.co.uk/roastspurs.gif\" alt=\" - \" /> <br />Proud member of the Axis of Upheaval<br />Official Titterer of the Laughing Hyenas<br />Josiah Bartlet - the best President the US never had.<br />The 1st D in the D & D Show

07-06-2004, 06:45 PM	#2
johnny 40th Level Warrior Join Date: April 15, 2002 Location: Utrecht The Netherlands Age: 58 Posts: 16,981	Very punny. __________________

07-06-2004, 11:00 PM	#4
Lauren Baaz Draconian Join Date: May 24, 2004 Location: Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia Age: 35 Posts: 721	Very amusing Donut [img]tongue.gif[/img] __________________ "So many thoughts running through my head, I know what you feel, I know what you dread; When a room's filled with laughter, when a room's filled with lies, you're the only one I know that's in disguise..."

07-07-2004, 04:45 PM	#9
wellard Dracolisk Join Date: November 1, 2002 Location: Australia ..... G\'day! Posts: 6,123	Xen, I think this is what Donut was playing with. And just when I thought it had crept under his radar 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. __________________ fossils - natures way of laughing at creationists for over 3 billion years

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07-06-2004, 10:26 PM	#3
Lanesra Symbol of Cyric Join Date: March 29, 2001 Location: Twititania, Europe Age: 63 Posts: 1,221	Wish I'd thought of that

07-07-2004, 12:11 AM	#5
Lanesra Symbol of Cyric Join Date: March 29, 2001 Location: Twititania, Europe Age: 63 Posts: 1,221	Yep, very funny, don't know where he gets 'em from [img]smile.gif[/img]

07-07-2004, 12:25 PM	#7
Grojlach Zartan Join Date: May 2, 2001 Location: Ulpia Noviomagus Batavorum Age: 43 Posts: 5,281	I sense a certain bitterness there in your initial post... I take it you're not bothering to watch the Tour this year?

07-07-2004, 03:06 PM	#8
Xen Symbol of Moradin Join Date: June 5, 2002 Location: Slovenia,Ljubljana Age: 36 Posts: 8,554	Interesting. This will be true when pigs will fly.

07-07-2004, 05:43 PM	#10
Lanesra Symbol of Cyric Join Date: March 29, 2001 Location: Twititania, Europe Age: 63 Posts: 1,221	I don't think he means just these guy's, the sports rife with it, some people are just a bit shrewder than others.

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