On the same day Lance Armstrong announced his second retirement from competitive cycling (that's bicycling, not steroid cycling), Alberto Contador was cruising the Tour of the Algarve on his Trek Madone to European cheers, basking in the glow being cleared of doping charges.
In an earlier post, I talked about how Alberto Contador was most definitely doping during his Tour de France win, but hadn't been stripped of his laurels because Europeans are not held to the same exacting zero tolerance when it comes to performance enhancing drugs as Americans.
Apparently, the Spanish Cycling Federation believes that it is very European to consume "tainted meat" through a plastic IV bag (the plastic residue of which was also found in Contador's bloodstream). So Contador is free to continue peddling through the hearts of continentals while Lance Armstrong, even as he retires, is STILL enduring probes for potential performance enhancing drug use.
The take home message for me is twofold. First, one cannot win the Tour de France without some kind of dope. Two, one cannot win the Tour de France without a European Union passport.
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment