Friday, October 22, 2004

Rest day today. The knee continues to make progress although there is still a slight amount of pain with certain movements.

Since it is a slow day I thought I would show a couple pictures of last Sundays CX race. First is the "A" race tackling the first barrier and then an example of what looks like synchronized CX.

News Item of the Day: Banned Cofidis cyclist David Millar has denied accusations made by his former teammate Philippe Gaumont that he used illegal performance enhancing drugs to win the final time trial in the 2003 Tour de France. Although Millar did admit in July that he had used EPO in 2001 and 2003, he has always maintained that he did it independently of any of the other riders in the team apart from Massimiliano Lelli, whom he claimed introduced him to EPO. But in August, Lelli said that Gaumont's testimony was truthful, and that Gaumont was one of the main riders in Cofidis responsible for procuring doping products.

Both Millar and Gaumont were questioned again by judge Richard Pallain in Nanterre, who is trying to ascertain whether there was drug trafficking going on within the Cofidis team. After charges against Cédric Vasseur were dropped on Friday, nine people remain under investigation in the Cofidis affair: Massimiliano Lelli, David Millar, Philippe Gaumont, Robert Sassone, Médéric Clain, Marek Rutkiewicz and Daniel Majewski, trainer Boguslaw Madejak, and former Oktos director Oleg Kozlitine.

Viewpoint: What a mess.

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