Poor Fränk Schleck. I can’t find it in my heart to judge him if he resorted to a diuretic. Think how he must’ve felt all these years, lugging around that hideously unattractive water weight.
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Poor Fränk Schleck. I can’t find it in my heart to judge him if he resorted to a diuretic. Think how he must’ve felt all these years, lugging around that hideously unattractive water weight.
Tags: Fränk Schleck
July 17, 2012 at 4:04 pm |
Ha ha.. Wonder what’s going through the mind of LA just about now…what with his RS team and all.
July 17, 2012 at 4:07 pm |
I bet he peed a drop or two his own bad self.
July 17, 2012 at 4:30 pm
Too busy worrying about the piece on the NYT homepage.
July 17, 2012 at 10:25 pm
Oh, yeah. Read that through the back door, via a Twitter link. That could get ug-ly in a public arbitration hearing. If I were Big George I would be careful as regards sitting with my back to doors and suchlike.
July 18, 2012 at 4:06 pm
Lancy Pants still has a foundation to run. I mean, lend his name too. And I think the cancer Jesus stuff can survive the doping scandal. But not if he acts like an asshole. Which is what giving big George grief for telling the truth would make him
July 17, 2012 at 4:30 pm |
Been some rough rest days, yeah?
July 17, 2012 at 4:33 pm |
Obtw, loved the headline. But needs a picture of Burt Ward and Adam West.
July 17, 2012 at 10:24 pm |
To the Bat’room!
July 17, 2012 at 5:09 pm |
Fer fuck sakes. Bring on Championship Wrestling.
“…The positive test came from the WADA-accredited lab in Châtenay-Malabry. Xipamide is banned for its use as a masking agent for other drugs…”
http://velonews.competitor.com/2012/07/news/uci-announces-positive-doping-test-for-frank-schleck-2_230302
July 17, 2012 at 5:20 pm |
Thanks, Khal. I was wondering if Xipamide could be used as a masking agent, and now I know.
July 17, 2012 at 5:34 pm
I imagine if Frank Schleck was taking it for legitimate medical reasons, it would be on his chart. And one certainly doesn’t need to flush fluids when one is humping the bike at 90% effort for several hours a day.
Sheesh. Won’t these guys ever learn? Or is this another case of Heather’s famous three word answer to the eternal question being appropriate: “People Are Stupid”.
July 17, 2012 at 6:41 pm
Especially in the summer heat. I sweat like a doper with the vampires at the door come summertime. Diuretics I don’t need … though of course I take one anyway. I self-prescribe a daily dose of 5 Barrel Pale Ale or its generic equivalent.
July 17, 2012 at 6:35 pm |
Well, the guy WAS getting a little water weight paunch. Every day around 6AM.
July 17, 2012 at 6:52 pm |
I imagine LA is thinking, “do I have to show those guys EVERYTHING?”
July 17, 2012 at 9:30 pm |
It’s hard to ride a bike when you have that horrible bloated feeling.
July 17, 2012 at 10:27 pm |
And the commissaires are always there to whip a fine on you should you tinkle at roadside. Is there no one who will rid me of these meddlesome priests of cycling?
July 18, 2012 at 11:56 am
I hate it when some scribe employs an arcane reference which I am unable to track down. Wasn’t that Peter O’Toole in “Henry II”?
RLong
July 17, 2012 at 9:43 pm |
Yeah. If they tested for IPA, I’d be hung out to dry.
July 17, 2012 at 10:27 pm |
As you know, K, IPA is rarely a performance enhancer, unless you’re entered in a pissing match.
July 17, 2012 at 11:11 pm |
“Sometimes when I reflect on all the beer I drink, I feel ashamed. Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery and all of their hopes and dreams. If I didn’t drink this beer, they might be out of work and their dreams would be shattered. I think, “It is better to drink his beer and let their dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver.”
-Babe Ruth
http://beerandwhiskeybros.com/2010/09/16/great-quotes-from-beer-history/
July 18, 2012 at 4:08 pm |
Appropriate line of conversation for Hunter S Thompson’s birthday
July 17, 2012 at 11:55 pm |
Well, Le Beeg Shew (so far) has been pretty boring, the only real entertainment has been the soap-opera called RadioSchleck. Ya can’t make this s__t up, as they say. They could sell tix to BigTex’ arbitration hearing, dontcha think?
July 18, 2012 at 8:27 am |
Beeg Tex goes before the Inquisitio Haereticae Pravitatis this weekend, right?
July 18, 2012 at 8:30 am |
Now we go on to influence pedaling. http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/influence-game-lance-armstrongs-supporters-turn-to-capitol-hill-in-doping-probe/2012/07/18/gJQAqLXqsW_story.html
July 18, 2012 at 11:18 am
OK so you win by cheating, then you get away with cheating by buying your way to senators and representatives. Not sure which is smells worse. And his main argument is fair-play? Give me a break.
July 18, 2012 at 10:39 am |
That Belgian fellow must really be losing his grip on the RadioSchleck squad….a positive dope test from a rider on his team? So far it’s been only AFTER they’ve moved to another team that they’ve been nabbed….BigTex’s current problems excluded.