Boonen boast

Latest Cycling News, March 5, 2009
Edited by Bjorn Haake
Boonen justifies exclusions from Milano-Sanremo


Tom Boonen would find the potential exclusion of Milano-Sanremo
hopefuls Alessandro Petacchi and Danilo Di Luca (both LPR Brakes)
justified. Boonen said that teams who don't follow the UCI
regulations, such as the blood passport programme or the whereabouts
rules, should not be allowed to compete in the big races.
Only ProTour teams and those teams with wildcards can participate in
Milano-Sanremo. "If LPR Brakes follows the rules then there is no
problem at all," Boonen told Belgian paper Sportwereld. "The racers
have to follow the whereabouts rules. I do that out of total
conviction, but everybody needs to do the same. I already had to do
that from the first year [the whereabouts system started]. Initially
we were only 20, then 100 and now everybody."

Currently LPR Brakes does not have a wild card. The Italian team has
not signed up for the biological passport programme yet, which also
endangers its Giro d'Italia ambitions.
LPR Brakes was already excluded from Paris-Tours last year for the
same reason. It also had some trouble receiving the UCI Professional
Continental status for 2009.
The list of contenders in Milano-Sanremo is getting smaller, in
addition to the potential non-start of Petacchi and Di Luca. Former
winners Oscar Freire and Fabian Cancellara are out due to injury and
four-time winner Erik Zabel retired last year.

He's concerned about everyone else following the drug rule, But it's
ok to powder your nose pre-race. ??
Rick in Tennessee

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He's concerned about everyone else following the drug rule, But it's
ok to powder your nose pre-race. ??

Boonen like a lot of people is just saying what the press wants to report.

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cycledogg wrote:
Latest Cycling News, March 5, 2009
Edited by Bjorn Haake
Boonen justifies exclusions from Milano-Sanremo


Tom Boonen would find the potential exclusion of Milano-Sanremo
hopefuls Alessandro Petacchi and Danilo Di Luca (both LPR Brakes)
justified. Boonen said that teams who don't follow the UCI
regulations, such as the blood passport programme or the whereabouts
rules, should not be allowed to compete in the big races.
Only ProTour teams and those teams with wildcards can participate in
Milano-Sanremo. "If LPR Brakes follows the rules then there is no
problem at all," Boonen told Belgian paper Sportwereld. "The racers
have to follow the whereabouts rules. I do that out of total
conviction, but everybody needs to do the same. I already had to do
that from the first year [the whereabouts system started]. Initially
we were only 20, then 100 and now everybody."

Currently LPR Brakes does not have a wild card. The Italian team has
not signed up for the biological passport programme yet, which also
endangers its Giro d'Italia ambitions.
LPR Brakes was already excluded from Paris-Tours last year for the
same reason. It also had some trouble receiving the UCI Professional
Continental status for 2009.
The list of contenders in Milano-Sanremo is getting smaller, in
addition to the potential non-start of Petacchi and Di Luca. Former
winners Oscar Freire and Fabian Cancellara are out due to injury and
four-time winner Erik Zabel retired last year.

He's concerned about everyone else following the drug rule, But it's
ok to powder your nose pre-race. ??
Rick in Tennessee

In article
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cycledogg wrote:

Latest Cycling News, March 5, 2009
Edited by Bjorn Haake
Boonen justifies exclusions from Milano-Sanremo


Tom Boonen would find the potential exclusion of Milano-Sanremo
hopefuls Alessandro Petacchi and Danilo Di Luca (both LPR Brakes)
justified. Boonen said that teams who don't follow the UCI
regulations, such as the blood passport programme or the whereabouts
rules, should not be allowed to compete in the big races.
Only ProTour teams and those teams with wildcards can participate in
Milano-Sanremo. "If LPR Brakes follows the rules then there is no
problem at all," Boonen told Belgian paper Sportwereld. "The racers
have to follow the whereabouts rules. I do that out of total
conviction, but everybody needs to do the same. I already had to do
that from the first year [the whereabouts system started]. Initially
we were only 20, then 100 and now everybody."

Currently LPR Brakes does not have a wild card. The Italian team has
not signed up for the biological passport programme yet, which also
endangers its Giro d'Italia ambitions.
LPR Brakes was already excluded from Paris-Tours last year for the
same reason. It also had some trouble receiving the UCI Professional
Continental status for 2009.
The list of contenders in Milano-Sanremo is getting smaller, in
addition to the potential non-start of Petacchi and Di Luca. Former
winners Oscar Freire and Fabian Cancellara are out due to injury and
four-time winner Erik Zabel retired last year.

He's concerned about everyone else following the drug rule, But it's
ok to powder your nose pre-race. ??
Rick in Tennessee

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On Mar 5, 8:58*am, cycledogg wrote:
Latest Cycling News, March 5, 2009
Edited by Bjorn Haake
Boonen justifies exclusions from Milano-Sanremo

Tom Boonen would find the potential exclusion of Milano-Sanremo
hopefuls Alessandro Petacchi and Danilo Di Luca (both LPR Brakes)
justified. Boonen said that teams who don't follow the UCI
regulations, such as the blood passport programme or the whereabouts
rules, should not be allowed to compete in the big races.
Only ProTour teams and those teams with wildcards can participate in
Milano-Sanremo. "If LPR Brakes follows the rules then there is no
problem at all," Boonen told Belgian paper Sportwereld. "The racers
have to follow the whereabouts rules. I do that out of total
conviction, but everybody needs to do the same. I already had to do
that from the first year [the whereabouts system started]. Initially
we were only 20, then 100 and now everybody."

Currently LPR Brakes does not have a wild card. The Italian team has
not signed up for the biological passport programme yet, which also
endangers its Giro d'Italia ambitions.
LPR Brakes was already excluded from Paris-Tours last year for the
same reason. It also had some trouble receiving the UCI Professional
Continental status for 2009.
The list of contenders in Milano-Sanremo is getting smaller, in
addition to the potential non-start of Petacchi and Di Luca. Former
winners Oscar Freire and Fabian Cancellara are out due to injury and
four-time winner Erik Zabel retired last year.

He's concerned about everyone else following the drug rule, But it's
ok to powder your nose pre-race. ??
Rick in Tennessee

Kind of comical that from the Paris Nice Passport Mini-Scandal we
found that LPR was paid up on the passport, while Quickstep was not.