Exactly iahoooooooo- the delay is unacceptable, especially since the King of the Mountains jersey should have now gone to a different guy and 3rd podium place awarded to whomever (IF Kohl is confirmed positive)?
Similarly, who can readily recall the 2006 TdF winner after Landis was later stripped of his title- it was a Spaniard but the name escapes me.
Decent people lose out of fame and sponsorship when drug positives are delayed so much.

The UCI should take some action , and they should do it now , TODAY !

They should announce that any Rider caught using durgs will be band from professional cycling for a prriod of ten ( 10 ) years !
Any taem that have two riders caught using durgs during the same season will be band from professinal racing for 5 years .

Schick Israel

I think anyone caught should be banned from the grand tours for life. That should stop most of them.

how is it possible to have ricco found on cheating right at the tour and guys like schumacher and kohl only 5-6 months later ? there is something definetly wrong with testing and they dont know themselves what that is, so for now i dont even trust those results. I find it unbelivable that they couldnt tell who was cheating for 6 months

cer-soloist......are you dim? Using your figures is bad enough. The perception though is what is left. This is just data on those who have been caught THUS FAR.

What else is waiting in the wings?

Tour de Farce, tainted sport, no credibility. Lets watch your figures slowly increase eh?

how about kohl and schumacher team mate .... LANG .... and the Schleck brothers .. where the heck did these guys come from .... ? ?

Here I am!!! Lets take a mathmaticle look at this percieved epidemic. 8 out of 180 makes 4.4%. Oh my! Run away! Run Away! The sky is falling! The sky is falling! As I stated before, do the math for the whole peleton on the entire season and see what the actual percentage is. It's a wonderful attribute that people are being caught. 4.4% from one race does not constitute anything near an epidemic of cheating.

Let them all take what drugs they want! Then its a level playing field for all! Blood transfusions no problem!

I welcome these positives. It shows that now doping is harder to get away with as a test for a new drug is now only a few months away. In the past riders would be getting away with it for a few years before being cuaght. The stupidity of these riders astounds me. Ricco & Piepoli have outstanding mountain rides. Schumacher & Kohl confound past form & history to do unusually well. You would think they would hold back & only win by a little bit so as to minimise suspicion.

But then again, they took drugs in this day & age so their total lack of brain activity is understandable. More worrying perhaps is the fact that its more than one rider from certain teams which is suggestive of something more systematic.

This is a gruelling sport and those who do not cheat deserve every admiration. Regrettably owing to the money and prestige in all sports these days there will be those who take drugs, but when caught they fade into oblivion fast thank goodness. Remember Florence whatever who actually died a few years later and the Irish swimmer whose times were slow before the Olympics. You cannot discount the fact also that sportsmen and women may take recreational drugs rather than performance enhancing and that should be detected more than it is. Fallon is the most famous at the moment but I wonder sometimes about the footie boys.

Is this really a surprise? I posted this line 5 days ago "....we are probably only days away from hearing that another podium placer was doped...." and Kohl was exactly the rider I was thinking of.

CERA\EPO is a wonder-drug that creates champions from journeyman professionals. You have to be suspicious of any rider that improves this rapidly...and unfortunately that erodes my belief in many heroic performances of the last few years....which is very sad because that is what cycling is all about.

Where is that muppet who was trying to convince us that 'cycling was the cleanest sport in the world'.

Everyone that hasn't tested positive Eddy. If your cynicism won't let you root for them, than maybe a "clean" sport is more your taste........... good luck finding one.

Your guilt by association is flawed, and here is why. If my best friend gets busted for drugs does that make a me a druggy too? He's my best friend and we hang out together all the time, so if he is guilty I must be as well, right? And how about you? Im sure some of your friends or family have had run-ins with the law. Does that make you a law breaker too?

Here is the problem with your philosophy. The only reason cycling looks dirty is because they are actually trying to catch the cheats. Would you rather them not try, so you can sleep well at night?

Don't bunch everyone together just because a "few" (3% this Tour) idiots think they can fool the system. That is just @#$%-backwards thinking. What about the other 97% that are actually trying to race clean? You actually think you are so great as to condemn them as well?.........I don't think so. Who died and made you judge, jury, and prosecutor?

French lab no french riders found guilty hmmmm, bit like F1 and FIA (French International Assistance!!!) simple ban every non french rider for drugs and they might win their home tour, bet all french riders on something just remember Veronique

IF YOU CAN NAME THE CLEAN RIDERS YOU MAY JUST HAVE A POINT!

The @#$% is really going to hit the fan now. At this rate i wouldn't be surprised if all of the top 3 were doped

So Edward B, we are suppose to throw out the baby with the bath water? What about the clean riders? There are actually clean riders you know. Your narrow-minded view just shows your ignorance.

And as for the "old guard", didn't Sastre ride for the past 10 years? That argument it bogus as well, since many of those old guard riders are still riding. Feel free to turn your TV off, cycling doesn't need your ignorant, backwoods views.

WHAT SHOW MUST GO ON....THE FREAK SHOW! CAUSE THAT'S WHAT THIS IS AND WITH THE OLD GUARD COMING BACK 'VINO AND LANCE' NEXT YEAR IS GOING TO BE A TOTAL SWITCH OFF. I CANNOT RESPECT THESE GUYS CAUSE THEY HAVE NO RESPECT FOR THEMSELVES. FANS VOTE WITH YOUR REMOTES AND DO NOT GIVE THIS CROWD OFF FREAKS A PLATFORM!

dont forget that Carlos Sastre allways make good results in the tour, and allways make the tour and vuelta inside the top 10 for several years, in the tour i was 10th (2002), 9th (2003), 8th (2004), 3rd (2006), 4th (2007), 1st (2008), he's not like Ricco or Kohl he did not came from nowhere, so i dont really think if CSC ryders are cheates i dont think Sastre is one of then, but i could be wrong, anyway i think Sastre results in the last six years justified is winning in this year TDF

We'll probably have to wait 10 years to find out if any CSC riders have doped.

OK, who's going to be next, anyone want to stretch their neck out and say?
I don't think anyone from CSC saxo bank because Riis is too clever to be caught, so... ay ideas?