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Originally Posted by Blade6119
Like baseball? Its just reporters searching for a story, and finding one. Most likely if you looked close at any sport you would find this.
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In baseball, would the bookies' favourite team suspend it's star pitcher on the eve of the World Series, if that player had not been banned by MLB?
This is what has happened here - Ullrich was the favourite, the Telekom team leader, and although he has not been banned by the governing bodies, he and his team-mate have been removed by Telekom themselves.
In the past there have been high profile doping convinctions (not allegations,
convictions) of Marco Pantani, Richard Virenque, entire teams (most notably Festina, which was one of the leading two or three teams at the time) and every year two or three minimum seem to get caught at the Tour...