Breaking News: Vino Tests Positive, Astana Withdraws from Tour

I had to go the the linked site just to be sure you were not kidding.

Damn! Just damn!!

Unbelievable.

I finally figured out how Cantador (or anyone for that matter) can beat Rasmussen tomorrow. Throw his drugs back toward the starting line just before you crest the next to last mountain of the stage!

Okay, it’s a bad joke, but I am trying to cut this foul mood with some humor. Besides, this way when it appears in every magazine and newspaper tomorrow you guys can all know that I said it first. Can I collect money from plagiarists?

just makes me want to cry. why on god’s green earth would he dope when there was absolutely NO WAY he could pull himself back into GC contention?!?!

and are ANY of them clean?!

Vino is now officially the dumbest man on this planet. At least until tomorrow when another rider does something equally stupid.

What I keep forgetting in all of this is that the entire Astana team has withdrawn themselves from the race. Was it because they’re embarrassed, or because people like Kloeden and Kashechkin have something to hide, too? T-Mobile didn’t withdraw after Sinkewitz’s positive test from June. What more is going on here?

I do not want to draw too many conclusions until we have some more facts. Remember, Vino did request an immediate test of his B sample so there might be some room here for him to be cleared. But given the few world-class athletes I have known I can understand how he might have been willing to risk getting caught just to have one more day in the sun. I sure hope it is not true.