something about the name.. Schumacher and cheating.. has a familier ring to it.

well i doubt the likes of ricco, schumi, basso and anyone else who @#$% up the tour will be allowed to participate again.. well not immediately anyway.
basso will never ride it again, and i think schumi might retire after this (he was going to retire last season after the acquisitions near the WC lol) as for ricco, maybe one day, but he will have a hard time doing so.

The UCI two year ban is inadequate, the Grand Tour Organisers have selection in their own hands - they should ban riders like Ricco, Schumacher and Vino from ever riding a Grand Tour again.

sad schumi, hope u get a banned from the sport. period. the fact that Hans-Michael Holczer didn't doubt the news speaks volumes to schumi's credibility.

"If a rider from one of the "clean teams" should appear in the press this week, I think it's all over."

yeah if a team like rabobank or silence had a doping incident it would hurt the sport big time.

also i wonder if Lefevre has any regrets about the way he treated bettini now :D

if you want orgs and sponsors to take notice, stopping supporting those events/products. simple bottom line.

hahahahahaa! Just noticed the last sentnce of the article. 7 positives at the 08 Tour. The only one cleared of any wrong doing is a Frenchman. Lol...what a joke!!!!

Let me see if I have the no gooders logic correct. 5(?) stages were won by people on CERA. Since Sastre, Evans and Kuhl (team mate of Shumi) beat the dopers they too must be on CERA. Therfore we have no winner of the Tour. If Lance was on dope because he beat the other dopers. Then so must the 08 winner. Riise admitted to doping. Induraine was beating dopers, therfore he had to of been doped up. There hasn't been a true winner of the TdF in 18(?) years. Wait a minute!!! Anquitel(sp?) admitted to being on dope and so did Coppi. Guess it's really been closer to 60 years that there hasn't been a true and honost winner of the TdF. But then again, in the earliest days riders cheated by hopping on trains. Guess there has never been a true and honost winner of the TdF. Oh screw it. The TdF is the problem. Shut down the race.

@ infinite.loop1...

man you sure have some faulty logic going... what does passing drug tests have to do with guilt or innocence... how many test did Ricco pass, did Beltran pass, did Heras pass... etc, etc, etc... Millar has never failed a drug test, Basso never failed a drug test, contrary to popular belief even Pantani never failed a drug test... looks like Lance is in good company.

do you know that it is believe that 3 CSC riders are also on the list of riders getting their blood re-tested this week (rumored to be the scheck bros... and cancellar)? c'mon, the vast majority of the field is on something... and if they are on something and you are beating them and beating them badly that should tell the people watching someting... some are just better at cheating or just more lucky that other and beat the tests...

if wall street can get away with cheating, why cant these guys?

you could tell this was coming. Going from a good rider to twice tour TT stage winner in such a short time. It really is time to make a stand (if you are caught you are out for life). The teams need to be hit hard so to discourage any more foul play, can't see how a rider can hide such ability way above there norm without anybody else in a team seeing it and a least raising the question.

Number 6 and 7, and most likely more to come. So much for "the cleanest Tour in years" Pruhdomme, you biased self serving hypocrite. Now go back to your regularly scheduled bashing of Lance, whom "never" tested positive. Jesus, are all the French this retarded?

What about Casper? A Frenchman Cleared....?????????
He was caught and should be banned!!

I think that Schumacher was on a lot of people's wish lists to be caught. It's going to be an interesting week. I read one article over the weekend that had the new head (boo, hiss) of the ASO asking why the biological passport system wasn't catching people like Ricco. It sounded like they were doing the testing but not a lot of comparing and evaluating. If a rider from one of the "clean teams" should appear in the press this week, I think it's all over.

Everyone knew Schumacher was cheating by just looking at the way he attacked senselessly on every stage... i hate his guts... he should rot in jail for the rest of his "career"

Its HIGH TIME that DRUG "CHEATING" sports persons were JAILED!!!!!

They are CHEATING in order to make MONEY and that's CRIMINAL so why not face JAIL terms of 4to 5 YEARS!!! (Yeah they would be out in 2 or 3 YEARS?)

This is fast becoming another sport where there is too much money and the chances of cheating through drugs is more common. Sadly we are never going to stop it now, the train is rolling. Good on those who graft day by day on these courses as this is a hard sport.

The Snake and his sidekick slimy snail can hide out in the grass together for the next two years, should be more!