He has admitted he has worked with Ferrari since he left Telecomm in 2005, but like all the good Dr's clients states that Ferrari never advised on or gave him any drugs. Probably trying ot beat someone to the punch with the admission rather than on the verge of cracking but it's looking like he's a worried man about events on Monday.

his "physical trainer"? :rolleyes: that's like hiring alan dershowitz to contest a speeding ticket isn't it?

Astana is done. I think Canyon will be in.

Vino with the pre-emptive with Jorg coming out with the goods on Monday.

T-Mobile. Liberty. Jorg was there with Vino. Hmm....

What are the odds that Vino will actually be able to take the start in England?

Wouldn't it be interesting if they prevent a whole host of riders from starting? Would they really do this? Last year they prevented a handful (a few big fish mind you, but still only a "handful"). It's not really in their best interest to ban a whole host of riders is it? The fewer the big names, the fewer the viewership will be is my guess. I really hope that they stick to whatever policy they had to determine who could ride last year's race and apply it evenly to this year's race.

Time will tell.

BT

Booting Basso and Ullrich last year really hurt the ratings from what Prudhomme said so I think they are prepared to keep the suspects out of the race regardless. They are already losing TV rights because of the dirty reputation of cycling so they don't really have much choice.

Wouldn't it be interesting if they prevent a whole host of riders from starting? Would they really do this? Last year they prevented a handful (a few big fish mind you, but still only a "handful"). It's not really in their best interest to ban a whole host of riders is it? The fewer the big names, the fewer the viewership will be is my guess. I really hope that they stick to whatever policy they had to determine who could ride last year's race and apply it evenly to this year's race.

Time will tell.

BT

The difference between last year and this year is that with OP last year, it was a police investigation. This time around, if Jorg spill the beans and names names, it's his word against that of those he names who will obviously deny deny deny.

No matter what Jorg says, the UCI isn't going to do squat in the amount of time left before the tour. Heck, when they got the 6000 page OP documents they said it would take them what 6 months (a year? I don't remember) to go through them before starting to take any sort of action..

Last year the riders kicked out of the tour was based on circumstantial evidence, but IIRC, they still used the standard of "if you are subject to an investigation you are out" which is part of the ProTour code of ethics. The circumstantial part was that the riders named in the investigation was based on linking up codenames with riders. With brilliant codenames like "Jan" that wasn't too hard.

Maybe someone can refresh my memory, but I don't recall that ASO directly kicked anyone out, but that they demanded that the teams enforce the ProTour code of ethics they had signed. I remember thinking that was ironic becuase the GT organizers hate the ProTour but didn't hesitate to cite the ProTour ethics code as a means of getting suspected riders out of their events.

If Jorg names names (ridres, teams, directors) ASO is going to have to go further out on the limb to take action.

It wouldn't suprise me if they do though. At this piont, I don't think anything would suprise me.