In cycling, the lesson still hasnt hit home: if its too good to be true, its not true. Ricardo Ricco, who earlier in the Tour won a pair of mountain stages in the dramatic fashion trademarked by to his late compatriot, Marco Pantani, has tested positive for EPO. His Saunier-Duval team has voluntarily withdrawn from the race.The widely-wielded Replica Breitling Windrider Chrono Cockpit Watch comparison to El Pirata turned out to be apt, although we dont wish the same end for Ricco as the one that befell Pantani. But Riccos performance winning stage 9 to Bagneres de Bigorre, where he gapped the lead group by over a minute in the final 1.1 kms, was truly out of of this world.
In worse news still, the French daily lEquipe reports that the urine samples collected by the French Anti-Doping Agency, AFLD, contained traces of a new blood booster called CERA. Since there is no WADA-approved test for this third-generation, Replica Breitling A7338011 Aeromarine Chrono Men's Watch delayed-action EPO, chances are good were in for another courtroom-media circus. At 24, Ricco provides a sad counter-argument to the hope that a new generation of cyclists would understand the sports focus on eradicating enhancement, and stay off the juice.
Assuming Ricco, who was sitting 9th overall at the start of todays race, will have his stage wins struck, for the record, Alejandro Valverde won stage 6, and Vladimir Efemkin won stage 9, by a reasonable 13 seconds. With Saunier out, there are new Replica Breitling A7836223-B5-87 Professional B-1 Men's Watch leaders in the mountains classification, and a new top ten in the GC.Is there any good news in all this? Scot David Millar (Garmin Chipotle - H30), who after serving a ban for doping has become somewhat of a spokesman for the sports effort to get clean, seems to know that the fight isnt over. We will catch more, he said to cyclingnews, this year, next year and the year after.--Matthew Fishbane
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