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In The Old Tour

From Pau reported Joerg Schallenberg

Whether or Pantani Riis - in the Tour de France are the heroes of yesteryear celebrated safely, although they have doped. The old thinking is simply not from the minds of drivers and to get responsible and prevent a new beginning. The audience contact.

On the evening before the Tour de France began in 2008, as did a few German journalists necessarily tell Erik Zabel, as he was, 1997, the stage to Plumelec won - because there, in the 2000 Breton residents - Place during the next day the first section of this France-ending tour.

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Zabel, the former series winner of the green jerseys, hesitated a moment, but then he settled but breitschlagen and described in glowing detail how well the team works, as it was then his colleague telecom Bjarne Riis was approached for him and how he then Sprint competitors no chance left. Wohliges Revel in memories.
But moment. 1997? Team Telekom? Bjarne Riis? How big is the likelihood that the Dane, who has confessed in his 1996 Tour victory to have doped, a year later was clean? And that the superior performance of the Telekom rider was not yet systematically banned nachgeholfen funds? What then is a stage victory in 1997 still worth it? These questions were posed by this evening nobody. A day later, in Plumelec then the Spaniard Manuel Beltrán tested positive for Epo - once for the telecom competition fierce U.S. Postal had started.

It really has not long to the past, this Tour de France had sought - and the question of how to deal with it.
on Sunday the Italian Riccardo Riccň, in the past with unusual testosterone levels noticed the sechseinhalbprozentige climbing to the highest point of the Aspin pass in Eilzugtempo emporflog and all pursuers as brightly dressed Freizeitstrampler look was because the jubilierten the French television commentators about "a new Pantani.
On Monday mounted to the same corporate group as the tour organization owned newspaper "L'Équipe" Images of Marco Pantani and Riccň side by side, the similarity in attitude and facial expression is striking. All this is intended as praise, and you can get nowhere a statement that Pantani, winner of the Tour of 1998, as one of the worst junkies, it was in cycling. In 1999 he was due to a high of Hämatokritwertes Giro d'Italia excluded, 2004, he died of a cocaine overdose.

His friend and Teamkamerad Filippo Simeoni, a comprehensive Dopinggeständis ablegte, said later that he had at Pant anise current exclusion hoped, "now he will stand up and declare: dominions, the truth is that I'm doped. We are all doped to before our audience always spectacular performances. Let us now openly about, perhaps we can once and for all change ".

Pantani remained silent until his death. But not Simeoni, but the "pirate" is still the stated model of Italian riders such as Damiano Cunego and Riccň. How should it be otherwise when undoubtedly brilliant cyclist Pantani as Riis and until today celebrated for their achievements without being at the same time reminded that they were swindlers? And it is indeed no matter whether everyone else cheats.

We should probably not so long search to get those drivers would find that the premiums fettesten victory escaped because they do not want to use performance-enhancing drugs. It is not, then only two were on the Tour, but those who never made it into the squad managed.
But for such thoughts is the grßten races in the world has no place. The problem here is not that professionals like Beltrán still on the old methods, but that the old thinking not to get their heads. For drivers, team bosses, rapporteurs, for some fans - and the organizers.
If Patrice Clerc, head of the Tour Ausrichters Aso, questions about the doping suspicions against the Spaniard Alejandro Valverde publicly and loudly as "a pile of shit" abtut and race director Christian Prudhomme the ertappten Beltrán described as a single case, although the French Anti-Doping Agency on Friday about 20 and the World Federation UCI quite some time before the race with 23 drivers striking blood values represented, then the deliberate ignorance.

It is not a dopingbelastetes team so as to exclude Astana - although, in comparison to previous years, a remarkable advance. But one would have guessed, that when the Italians of Liquigas problems. A team that the doping offenders Ivan Basso during his lock under contract, and thus against the ethics code of the ProTour teams verstieß, has probably actually a "personal ethics", as racing team boss Roberto Amadio the "Frankfurter Rundschau said.
But it's not only the spectacular cases such as Liquigas, but the little comments on the edge, the stutzig. Milram team boss Gerry van Gerwen said in
Interview with Online Newspaper ONLINE long as the new plans for his team, then in a subordinate clause should be noted that it is a pity to Alessandro Petacchi, one had to suspend, "because the twice too often to his asthma spray down."
As long as this old thinking is not abandoned, cycling can not really renew. When German public waning confidence now. The audience fell in the first week of the Tour compared to the previous year, although a German rider in the yellow jersey went. But even this, Stefan Schumacher, has a past.