F. Schleck Cleared

Raam · 10-12-2008 9:50am #1

I'm sure many of you have already seen this news. Here it is anyway...

http://sports.yahoo.com/sc/news?slug=ap-doping-schleck&prov=ap&type=lgns

Luxembourg cyclist Frank Schleck was cleared Tuesday by his national anti-doping agency of involvement in a Spanish scandal.

The Grand Duchy’s anti-doping authorities said that after a two-month probe nothing illegal could be established beyond the fact that Schleck had transferred some money to a Swiss bank account of Spanish doctor Eufemiano Fuentes, the man at the heart of a major cycling doping scandal...

Caroline_ie · 10-12-2008 9:51am

... meh

RobFowl · 10-12-2008 10:03am

Suppose it's fair enough, most cyclists I know pay gynaecologists they have never met €6000 for "training advice"

Raam · 10-12-2008 10:04am

RobFowl wrote: »

Suppose it's fair enough, most cyclists I know pay gynaecologists they have never met €6000 for "training advice"

I wonder what the advice was that he couldn't get it from his own team?

Diarmuid · 10-12-2008 10:07am

the fact that Schleck had transferred some money to a Swiss bank account of Spanish doctor Eufemiano Fuentes, the man at the heart of a major cycling doping scandal.

“to receive training advice by experts who presumably worked with some of the biggest names in the sport.”

No comment needed. Good to see cycling cleaning itself up :rolleyes:

TinyExplosions · 10-12-2008 10:20am

He's the new generations LA -there you go, I've said it! Dodgy payments to dodgy doctors... kinda like having someone store your blood but 'never' using it isn't it....

Diarmuid · 10-12-2008 10:26am

I smoked dope but I didn't inhale.

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