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The governing body said the fine was for "unseemly or inappropriate behaviour during the race and damage to the image of the sport".

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[-] [email protected] 253 points 1 week ago

Damage to the image of the sport?! The one that constantly has people cheating and being stripped of their medals? Oh yeah, wouldn't want to ruin that!

[-] [email protected] 124 points 1 week ago

Remember when they stripped Lance of his win, and they were going to award it to the next place finisher who didn't also cheat, but they didn't have one?

[-] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago

Pepperidge farm remembers.

[-] [email protected] 99 points 1 week ago

They have no imagination when it comes to cheating in the Tour de France these days. Now, it's all performance enhancing drugs. But back in the good old days-

“They would trail a thin piece of wire right behind a motor car, which, at one end, had a cork fixed on to the end of it,” Cossins explains. “And the rider would wedge the cork between his teeth. And then get towed along with this thing, this wire, pulling him along.”

https://www.wbur.org/onlyagame/2017/06/30/tour-de-france-maurice-garin-peter-cossins

[-] [email protected] 46 points 1 week ago

There was a cool hightech one where they hid an invisible motor inside the frame of the bike. It could not move the bike by itself but it added a few watts that gave a clear advantage. https://road.cc/content/news/uci-warns-it-impossible-use-motors-tour-de-france-309061

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

"How do you beat a man on drugs if you are not on drugs"

And apparently here is an answer.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

"And this year's prize for the best pharmacist goes to..."

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