No Giro For You!!!

The powers that be in professional cycling have broken out the Seinfeld equivalent of the Soup Nazi. In the case of the Grand Tours, call it the Triumvirate of Cycling Nazis: UCI President, Pat McQuaid, Tour de France Director, Christian Prudhomme, and Quick-Step boss, Patrick LeFevere.

All three have recently agreed to bar any questionable cyclists from the three Grand Tours, until the implicated (defined as guilty in this case) can prove their non-involvement/innocence in their respective scandal (Operacion Puerto in this case).

If this holds true to form, the biggest loser of the bunch may be Tyler Hamilton (Tinkoff Credit Systems), who not only served a 2 year suspension for alleged homologous blood transfusion, but is facing a case of what I can best describe as reverse double jeopardy (double jeopardy meaning that the accused cannot be tried for the same crime twice) by being newly implicated in Operacion Puerto.

This point is lost on Oude Granny. Perhaps my mind has dulled in the aging process.

So Hamilton who served a suspension for a doping infraction is essentially being barred from this year's biggest races because they have potentially found new evidence that he actually did dope two years ago??

Isn't that the biblical justice equivalent of cutting off the arms of a man who has already had his hands cut off for stealing?

"Yeah, you know that bread that you stole?"
"Darn right I do, you took my hands for it!"
"Well, now we really know you did it...WHACK!"

No Racing For You!!!