so phil can’t figure out where the drugs come from…
we could always speculate. take one thom weisel for example. thom weisel the cycling fan who was behind subaru-montgomery, the team that would eventually become us postal. same thom weisel that assisted usa cycling in its time of difficulty.
surely you ask this couldn’t be the same thom weisel of montgomery securities, the same montgomery securites that funded a certain biotech company (to great profit) back in the eighties. what were they called? oh, that’s right – amgen. and they made what? that would be epo.
but would then be the same amgen who would be facing massive fines for its unethical pratices with regard to cancer patients and epo. the sort of stuff you can read about in (fairly long winded and a bit dull) fashion in kathleen sharp’s book blood medicine. but we wouldn’t want to cloud the issue of routine and institutional exploitation of thousands of ill people with the fact that some people’s viewing enjoyment of a bike race was spoiled because some blokes enjoyed the benefits of corporate sponsorship.
not that i’d ever suggest that just because someone has links with the company who makes the drug they were taking would ever do such a thing. because the likes of thr uci wouldn’t be up for that. no, because, say, if you were hein verbruggen and you had a team sponsor or backer doing something like handling your investments, someone who knew their way around such things, someone like thom weisel for example. you wouldn#t want to be doing that cos it would look like a conflict of interest or something.
but that would be a red herring because the issue at hand is that once the armstrong cancer (sic) is excised from cycling, sport and hopefully exiled into space then all cycling fans can rest easy and get down to the business of pretending they understand all that physiology and biochemistry stuff and watching the wonderful new era of clean cycling unfurl into 2013.
and it is a clean world of cycling and things really have changed, when a break has been made between what’s happening now and the bad old days of epo. me, i can’t wait for the start of the racing, the classics, the tour of california, oops, that should read the amgen tour of california. wait a minute tho…