Comments on: Coeur de grimpeur – part 4 – ride of redemption http://le-grimpeur.net/blog/archives/38 A cycling blog for everything climbing Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:48:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Robert http://le-grimpeur.net/blog/archives/38/comment-page-1#comment-43688 Robert Fri, 22 May 2009 17:50:13 +0000 http://le-grimpeur.net/blog/archives/38#comment-43688 Chris,read the article again and you might see why Virenque denied his drug use - everyone was doing it in those days and a great deal are still doing it today. You simply could not compete at the highest level without PED's - that's a fact. He's done nothing that Pantani, Zulle, Ullrich Riis, Armstrong etc etc haven't done. You have to understand that drugs are engrained in the culture of cycling - that's the way it has always been and will always be. Robert Chris,read the article again and you might see why Virenque denied his drug use – everyone was doing it in those days and a great deal are still doing it today.

You simply could not compete at the highest level without PED’s – that’s a fact. He’s done nothing that Pantani, Zulle, Ullrich Riis, Armstrong etc etc haven’t done. You have to understand that drugs are engrained in the culture of cycling – that’s the way it has always been and will always be.

Robert

]]> By: Chris Schultz http://le-grimpeur.net/blog/archives/38/comment-page-1#comment-15266 Chris Schultz Sun, 14 Sep 2008 04:27:29 +0000 http://le-grimpeur.net/blog/archives/38#comment-15266 I really enjoy this site, but I cannot understand your Virenque apologist stance. Do you have a personal connection with him besides that of a blogger? This guy quite possibly qualifies as one of the greatest "poster child" of the dope generation. I appreciate how you skipped over his Polti time and the controversy around that signing. I was living in France at the time and even there my cycling friends and the press were incredulous that anyone would sign him. Remember, "Mes produits, comment je vais faire maintenant?". More to the point, "a l'insu de mon plein pre". Pathetic writing here about the suffering of the "great climber" Virenque. Why are you perpetuating this shit? I really enjoy this site, but I cannot understand your Virenque apologist stance. Do you have a personal connection with him besides that of a blogger? This guy quite possibly qualifies as one of the greatest “poster child” of the dope generation. I appreciate how you skipped over his Polti time and the controversy around that signing. I was living in France at the time and even there my cycling friends and the press were incredulous that anyone would sign him. Remember, “Mes produits, comment je vais faire maintenant?”. More to the point, “a l’insu de mon plein pre”. Pathetic writing here about the suffering of the “great climber” Virenque. Why are you perpetuating this shit?

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