"It's done" -- Lance Armstrong
After much speculation over whether or not Discovery Channel would sign a prominent rider under a cloud of suspicion, Basso will now be trading red and white for blue and grey. I'm a little surprised: Basso was cleared, but he steadfastly refused to submit to DNA sampling that would have definitively cleared him. I'm not saying that Basso is guilty for not submitting DNA; I'm just surprised that Discovery -- one of the few teams not impacted by Operation Puerto -- would sign him without such a test.
Comments (4)
Just found your blog off a post from sportvelo via the alto velo list. I'm poking through your archives and it's good reading.
Hope to see you on an AV ride sometime!
Posted by erik | December 4, 2006 6:56 PM
Hey erik,
Thanks for stopping by -- I appreciate your comment. I'm working my way up to an AV ride one of these days, but I don't quite got the legs yet ;).
Posted by kwc | December 4, 2006 8:22 PM
Hehe. Just join up on the Saturday B ride, I do those and there are a range of riders.
btw, did you hear that Levi Leipheimer is gonna be @ Lombardi in SF on the 18th?
http://www.lombardisports.com/events.aspx
Posted by erik | December 6, 2006 9:44 AM
B ride sounds good. Maybe when the weather is less... Alaskan :).
Thanks for the Levi info. I'll post it here to help spread the news.
Posted by kwc | December 6, 2006 10:05 AM