Rasmussen out of Tour.

by xRio • 25 Jul 2007, 22:19 • Journals
The Rabobank team has put their own rider Michael Rasmussen out of the Tour because he supposedly would have broken the internal rules of the team.

It's not sure whether the rest of the team will continue the Tour de France.

More information will come tonight.

:<

*EDIT*
It turns out that instead of training in Mexico, as he said to the UCI Anti-Doping testers, he has trained in Italy for over a month. There's is still no real proof of Rasmussen using doping but one can surely ask why would you lie about your training location.

I guess we'll never know...
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florian 25 Jul 2007, 23:21
http://www.lequipe.fr/

RASMUSSEN QUITTE LE TOUR !
L'équipe Rabobank a décidé mercredi soir de retirer immédiatement de la Grande Boucle le Danois Michael Rasmussen. Mis en cause pour avoir manqué plusieurs contrôles inopinés avant le début de l'épreuve, il avait consolidé son maillot jaune le jour même en remportant la 16e étape au Col d'Aubisque. Le Maillot Jaune devrait revenir à Alberto Contador. Le Tour de France est plus que jamais dans le chaos.

french roxx.
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koek 25 Jul 2007, 23:21
Weird news, sucks.
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FaClon 25 Jul 2007, 23:21
c'est vrai, for real, echt ?
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Quinne 25 Jul 2007, 23:26
right decision
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maverick888 25 Jul 2007, 23:26
Tour de Cheats.....should be banned on TV
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Vindicator 25 Jul 2007, 23:26
So... Is there actually anyone left? :s From what I hear there's some ppl who've used forbidden stuff?
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Deactivated5637 25 Jul 2007, 23:26
Who is the best now ?
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Quinne 25 Jul 2007, 23:29
Contador, as the french article says
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schNee 25 Jul 2007, 23:26
fucking hackers
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fewx_ 25 Jul 2007, 23:27
haha cycling
so ridiculous.
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faerydae1337 25 Jul 2007, 23:27
LOL more cheaters
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Bitmap 25 Jul 2007, 23:29
Wow, will anyone be left by the time they get to Paris? :<

(The Cofidis team is also out after Moreni tested positive.)
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Boefje 25 Jul 2007, 23:31
"Boefje on 24/07/07, 18:51:29 Del | Edit | Reply

50 years ago the best cycler won the Tour de France. Nowadays the best cycler who manages to hide his usage of doping wins the Tour."


Hmmm....
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chronos_ 25 Jul 2007, 23:57
/bind j "Boefje: Chinese has always seen the world in widescreen"

Thanks boefje <3
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Boefje 25 Jul 2007, 23:59
You're welcome <3
But I made a grammar mistake. It's supposed to be: "Chinese have". Hope you can fix that ;-)
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wipeout 25 Jul 2007, 23:32
brb, going to win tour de france
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flame 25 Jul 2007, 23:34
dont forget the epo !!!
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Deactivated5637 25 Jul 2007, 23:35
Posted
A statement
To everbody
How
Easy to
Tell you,
I
Cheat
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darnok 25 Jul 2007, 23:43
who cares about cycling :/

more "cheaters" than in ET
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Nizou 25 Jul 2007, 23:44
Perhaps that's exactly the reason why it is so popular among ETPlayers!
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pheex 25 Jul 2007, 23:57
chaos!
i like it
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Otternase 26 Jul 2007, 00:07
this tour de france is such a joke! they should cancel the whole tour now.
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Rhand 26 Jul 2007, 00:07
Haha, I told you he dopes. And don't come telling me he doesn't, cos if he didn't this wouldn't happen.
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faerydae1337 26 Jul 2007, 00:18
It turns out that instead of training in Mexico, as he said to the UCI Anti-Doping testers, he has trained in Italy for over a month. There's is still no real proof of Rasmussen using doping but one can surely ask why would you lie about your training location.
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cristolo 26 Jul 2007, 00:35
rofl please,dont say "i knew it,rasmussen busted!" as far as i see,there is no proofs of doping yet,he just left the tour.

ofc he dopes (imo) but they still didn't find anything,just suspicion ... L.Armstrong ?
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Rhand 26 Jul 2007, 00:37
I didn't say he got busted. I said "told you guys he doped".
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Kallomena 26 Jul 2007, 00:11
gg easybash
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Oeglie 26 Jul 2007, 00:22
Sad day for cycling :<. And a shame for the rest of the rabo team who worked really hard the last few days.
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Trixor 26 Jul 2007, 00:23
omfg rabobank fcking noobs plz die k thnx
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xRio 26 Jul 2007, 00:33
Why would you hold on to a rider who is more likely to be thrown of his bike by a French moron than to finish in Paris. The facts about him staying in Italy and lying to the Rabobank team and the UCI would have come out anyway and the French press and other press teams would've just verbally killed Rasmussen and of course also the Rabobank team.

This is pure self preservation and I think it's a good move by de Rooy.
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Rhand 26 Jul 2007, 00:38
Evans is going to win the Tour !!!

Contador will loose easily 2 minutes in the time trials. Moehahaha.

And Soler wins the polka dot jersey <33333
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xRio 26 Jul 2007, 00:42
hahaha go Predictor Lotto xD
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Rhand 26 Jul 2007, 00:48
I feel a bit sad for Boogerd and Dekker atm, u know. They really drove a fenomenal Tour, and for what...
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xRio 26 Jul 2007, 00:55
Yeh idd... Boogerd said that he was "compleet stuk".
Must be very sad :<
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Rhand 26 Jul 2007, 00:57
I hope the dokter had some glue, cant be healthy.
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dinev 26 Jul 2007, 00:30
i said it last week already that he dopes
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WSFGeneralz 26 Jul 2007, 01:01
haha the tour is getting better and better every day
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kiss 26 Jul 2007, 01:18
Sad, they should have thrown him out before the tour.
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