Breaking News: Is Petacchi Admitting Abusing Asthma Drugs?
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1 comment | July 3rd, 2007 | Trackback
The husband found this article on Tuttobici, and says that the other Italian sites aren’t reporting it as strongly (that he admitted to this) - Petacchi did testify in the hearing today, and the panel is supposed to decide ASAP whether he can ride the Tour or not. A quick translation of the first paragraph of the article is:
Petacchi admits the abuse, now he risks the sting
Black clouds, charges of bad omens are gathering around Alessandro Petacchi and Gian Luigi Stanga. Goodbye Tour, goodbye French dreams: the immediate future of the sprinter called the world’s strongest is to defend himself regarding those excessive doses of Ventolin found in his urine called his career. The Tour is lost, this is really about defending his future as a racer.
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[…] You may recall my girlish fascination (to put it mildly) with Ivan Basso (who I still think is un figo), but then he got a 2-year suspension. Then I began to have a fondness for Alessandro Petacchi, whose raw emotions when he’s riding have always been charming to me. (Anyone who cries when he wins Milano-Sanremo is cool in my book.) But now even he’s looking at some suspension time after using a smidge too much of his asthma drug. What is a girl to do these days, with all her favorite Italian riders falling from pedestals left and right?!? […]