In what could be the final chapter in the T-Mobile doping saga, Deutsche Telekom elected to terminate it's sponsorship of it's ProTour cycling team. Team General Manager Bill Stapleton stated that the team will continue through 2008, though under a new name.
In a related story, the dog that knocked T-Mobile rider Marcus Burghardt to the ground during stage nine of the Tour de France was to have his appeal heard by CAS this week. Eliminated from the race for "Unsporting behavior", the dog which answers to the name "Rex", later tested positive for an autologous blood transfusion. Although earlier implicated in the "BARKO" doping scandal, Rex has continued to maintain his innoncence.
Medical experts for Rex claim that the extra blood found in his A sample was that of Marcus Burghardt. The "transfusion" apparently occured when the rider came into contact with the canine during the accident this summer. Rexs' defense team used video attained from VS to illustrate the "transferrence of biological substance between the athletes."
The USADA arbitration panel reached a 2-1 decision against Rex leading to the animals' appeal to CAS.
The lengthy appeal process was put into doubt the animals' participation in the upcoming Iditarod.
An annonymous source from the T-Mobile camp has claimed that Rex is in fact the personal pet of Lance Armstrong and has suggested that the accident was part of a plot by the American superstar to undermine the success of the Magenta Machine.
Representative from the Armstrong camp could not be reached for comment.
-BS News Reports
3 comments:
Dude a few things.
1. That was f$ckin funny.
2. The dog should sue for the following.
-Getting hit by the rider
-Defamation for being related to Lance.
I know! That dog has a serious case for both!!!
At least Rex didn't pull the all too used vanishing twin defense.
That wreck was bad but I think the one with Sandy Casar and the dog later in the Tour was much worse.
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