Armstrong's luck running out?

[Eddie Teach]

Something to do with bones and entrails.

[mongers]

A local has been caught out by develpments:

I'm stuck with 10,000 Lance Armstrong DVDs to shift

A POOLE entrepreneur is looking for creative suggestions after becoming stuck with 10,000 DVDs featuring disgraced former US cyclist Lance Armstrong.

Karl Baxter of Wholesale Clearance UK at Willis Way bought the discs before the seven times Tour de France winner's name was fatally tarnished in a doping scandal.

Armstrong had persistently denied rumours that he had used performance-enhancing drugs, but last August decided not to challenge the decision of the US Anti-Doping Agency to strip him of all his competitive results since 1998 – including his record-breaking run of consecutive Tour de France victories. Last week he admitted, in a two hour interview with Oprah Winfrey, that he had indeed cheated his way to all seven Tour de France victories.

A rueful Karl said: "I bought the DVDs at a good price. The idea was to sell them in small job lots so traders could go on eBay, Amazon or car boot sales and sell them on.

"There was a slight amount of risk. There was suspicion but he wasn't admitting to it.

"I was hoping the problem would die down and I would be able to find a home for them. Now I don't think I would get a tenth of the money back."

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Rest of item here:

http://www.thisisdorset.net/news/tidnews/10174271.I_m_stuck_with_10_000_Lance_Armstrong_DVDs_to_shift/

[mongers]

There's supposed to be some surprising/not so surprising news in the works about a Spanish Doctor who's been helping all sorts of athletes to dope.

See if I can find a link anywhere.

[crazy canuck]

There's supposed to be some surprising/not so surprising news in the works about a Spanish Doctor who's been helping all sorts of athletes to dope.

See if I can find a link anywhere.

Dr. Who?

[mongers]

There's supposed to be some surprising/not so surprising news in the works about a Spanish Doctor who's been helping all sorts of athletes to dope.

See if I can find a link anywhere.

Dr. Who?

Found the article I was reading last night:

Spain accused of a doping cover-up as doctor implicated in cycling's Operation Puerto scandal goes on trial

The Spanish government has been accused of suppressing evidence linking footballers and tennis stars to a notorious doctor who will go on trial in Madrid next week and has been described as a "one-man Wal-Mart" of doping.

By  Nick Hoult

11:00PM GMT 21 Jan 2013

Detectives in Spain have been gathering evidence from all over Europe about Dr Eufemiano Fuentes since first raiding his offices in 2006. The investigation, known as "Operation Puerto", has revealed one of the most extensive drug rings in sports history.

When Fuentes finally appears in court next Monday charged with public health offences, it will mark the start of a trial expected to last two months and at which cycling's rampant culture of drug use will be exposed again, just days after Lance Armstrong's dramatic confession on US television to Oprah Winfrey.

But despite Fuentes freely admitting to working with professional footballers and tennis players as well as cyclists, the Spanish authorities have ruled that the case will only cover his involvement in cycling.

The failure to explore in court Fuentes's work outside cycling has infuriated the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and led to accusations of a cover-up to limit the impact on Spain's sporting reputation.

"We have been banging our heads against a brick wall to get access to the evidence that was gathered," Dave Howman, WADA's director general, said. "It is not only frustrating and disappointing but it also means that many athletes who might be dirty have been allowed to compete."

When police sifted through evidence at Fuentes's office they found fridges filled with bags of blood and labelled with code names such as Bella, Son of Ryan and Zapatero as well as extensive written records. Fifty-four cyclists were implicated in the doping ring and star names such as Tyler Hamilton, Ivan Basso and Jan Ullrich were eventually suspended, but many others were cleared.

"We were always told that the patients this man was treating were across a number of sports so it was disappointing that cycling was the only sport isolated," Howman added.

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Rest of article here, including alligations about World Cup football:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/cycling/9816922/Spain-accused-of-a-doping-cover-up-as-doctor-implicated-in-cyclings-Operation-Puerto-scandal-goes-on-trial.html

[Maladict]

Rasmussen to make a full confession today. Will anyone care?

[Liep]

Rasmussen to make a full confession today. Will anyone care?

Probably not, but Danish newspapers seem to think they have to care. This is already getting old, how many years after his retirement will it take for Wiggins to confess?

[Liep]

He's also supposed to rat on other riders to get his sentence reduced from 8 years of suspension to 2. Are there anyone left to rat on though? Maybe Rolf Sørensen, did they ride together on Rabobank at any point?

[Liep]

He admitted doping from 1998 all the way to 2010, uninterrupted. That's, I think, the latest date of an "okay, I did it" confession. Allegedly he also gave evidence against Nicky Sørensen who is still active.

[Maladict]

Michael Boogerd confessed to using doping from 1997 up to retirement in 2007. He refuses to rat out his team mates, including the one major Dutch cyclist still at large, Erik Dekker. It probably won't take long, though, the media are hunting these guys down ferociously. I wouldn't be surprised if major athletes in other sports are starting to be exposed soon.

edit: fixed wrong year

[Syt]

Michael Boogerd confessed to using doping from 1997 up to retirement in 1997.

[Liep]

Michael Rasmussen told a Dutch court that Menchov was using doping while they were riding together at Rabobank.

[Maladict]

Michael Boogerd confessed to using doping from 1997 up to retirement in 1997.

Heh, 2007.

[Liep]

The last remaining clean Danish cycling great has admitted to the use of doping. Rolf Sørensen was not clean.

http://politiken.dk/sport/cykling/ECE1924892/her-er-rolf-soerensens-pressemeddelelse/

[Liep]

This bugs me more than it ought to. Of course I knew, everybody did, it was a long lasting joke that he was the only one left. But there wasn't really any good reason for him to come clean, sort of speak. He was the last vestige of the untainted 90's cycling heroes.

You should've kept quiet, Rolf.