Valverde is a big-time doper.
A Fine Gaggle of Dopers

Barloworld is ending a cycling team sponsorship. Saunier Duval is saying they will too. The dopers are killing the dollars that make the sport a professional one. They remind me of selfish children. Their individual needs for acknowledgment are greater than the needs to compete fairly and live with honor. The icon of the age [...]

I think like the “Jerky Boys” Ricco’s shoes just came off.
That’s a “big fish” as VeloNews says.
I believe Ricco.
Has “Tricky” flipped on Lance yet. I’ll make some popcorn.
Update: story at cyclingnews.com

Lance-Trek decided to dump Greg Lemond. Lemond was suing them it looks like. Because they were dissing Lemond Bikes, I think. That’s what is alleged in the complaint, read items 9-13 here, Lance-Trek provides the link. Lance Trek Bikes
Greg Lemond just isn’t enough of a whore. Because if he was, when confronted with the reality [...]

The ramifications of doping spread out like fire through a house of sleeping people. It takes jobs, it sends people into severe moral quandaries, it exposes them to legal jeopardy that can cost then tens of thousands of dollars just for being around.
It’s a game played by narcissists that brings down the good.
From Velonews
The soigneur [...]

pretty good on line live video of the Amgen race
www.amgentourofcalifornia.com/…AdobeTourTracker.html

Bombshell

Steroid Nation could use some help, if you’re game, pitch in.
I am sure we could find some interesting doping stories from the bike side of things and contribute.
Check this link: grg51.typepad.com/steroid_nation/2008/02/any-juiced-writ.html

Let’s see, Rock Racing, headed by a fucknuts by the name of Michael Ball (I wonder if he’s gonna gonna sit down with Dick Pound and share Ann Gripper; whatever), has added such doping luminaries as Botero, Tyler (yeah, that one), and made statements about how winning is the only thing.
Frankie says fuck-it. Yeah, yeah, [...]

Birth defects for your kids – Physical deformities, mental handicaps
Emotional problems – Severe depression and suicide
Miscarriage and Still birth rates 32X higher
Steroid Nation Post on German Research 
Let’s hope Tyler and Haven don’t have kids.