View Full Version : Is Astana the new Discovery or is Discovery the new Astana?


Pablo
10-23-2007, 09:28 AM
http://www.velonews.com/race/int/articles/13559.0.html

I'm not sure what to make of the mass transfer of Disco riders to Astana.

Will this mean that Astana turns clean (assuming that Disco was) or will Astana's directors continue the same old?

Was it ever the directors or was it the riders?

I'm confused.

Dwayne Barry
10-23-2007, 09:33 AM
Let's wait and see if Bruyneel takes his old ONCE doping docs with him or if the riders start relocating to Girona.

Seriously if they can do it under the nose of Damsgaard and assuming the UCI goes thru with their blood passport idea, under its nose, well good on 'em.

Pablo
10-23-2007, 09:43 AM
Let's wait and see if Bruyneel takes his old ONCE doping docs with him or if the riders start relocating to Girona.

Seriously if they can do it under the nose of Damsgaard and assuming the UCI goes thru with their blood passport idea, under its nose, well good on 'em.
So Bruyneel is the mastermind in your opinion? I had sort of thought that teams were hands off with doping now and it was more on the riders.

Dwayne Barry
10-23-2007, 10:09 AM
So Bruyneel is the mastermind in your opinion? I had sort of thought that teams were hands off with doping now and it was more on the riders.

I certainly don't know the nature of the relationship. What I suspect is something similar to Kelme and Fuentes took place at some point at USPS/Disco with the ex-ONCE docs. That is, they were no longer officially employed by the team and set up there own "clinic" in Valencia that riders continued to use.