Hmm

Well, Vino seems to be keeping schtum. Which is interesting. He also seems to have taken the heat of Rasmussen, not that I'm accusing the doping testers of conspiracy, or anything of the kind. I just find it quite odd that he's only just been caught. You see, much though I'd love him to be innocent (and if he is, I may well charge at the UCI with a sword) but I really don't think he is. Which given that he was having trouble keeping up on a fair few of the stages may well suggest that certain other people on the tour aren't exactly clean either.

I'm not going to condemn any of them. Although when Bradley Wiggins tests positive, I shall be very amused.

I told you his excuse would be fantastic

From Eurosport, excuse bolded:

But the 33-year-old, who bounced back from losing nearly 30 minutes in Sunday's mountain stage by winning in the Pyrenees on Monday, has denied the allegation.

He told L'Equipe: "It's a mistake. I never doped, that's not the way I see my profession.

"I think it's a mistake in part due to my crash. I have spoken to the team doctors who had a hypothesis that there was an enormous amount of blood in my thighs, which could have led to my positive test.

"I heard that I made a transfusion with my father's blood. That's absurd, I can tell you that with his blood, I would have tested positive for vodka.

"The setting up of our team made a lot of people jealous and now we're paying the price. It's a shame to leave the Tour this way, but I don't want to waste time in proving my innocence."

I love him.

Heroes

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I feel I shall be watching more of this.