"Crescentius Vespasianus" wrote in message
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Riis just killed the sport known as pro-cycling. The European police in
Italy and France were in the end correct and the people who criticized
them
were wrong. I think David Millar was the first to crack under those warm
interrogation lights. In the end he told them all they needed to know
about
this cycling-Mafia. Kudos to all of the European police agencies, in
cracking this Mafia wide open for all to see. All that crap about these
guys going up grades 8% at 26 mph were simply an illusion. Where does
Carmichael go now, when people now know it wasn't his training, but what
he
had in the medicine bag. What about Liggett, will he now return to being
a
shoe salesman? Trautman can now compare his steroid perfected Yankee team
to the EPO perfected CSC team. It was the perfect illusion,......all of
it.
We should all give them a giant round of applause for this magic trick of
the century called pro-cycling.



Actually, this could be the best thing to help cycling clean up and recover
some measure of credibility. At least I hope so. It was a beautiful sport
to watch prior to the 1990s.