EPO ... the song

Caroline_ie

I know it's in french, but I am sure you'll understand most of it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaZLlrwvzPQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaZLlrwvzPQ

Danbo!

I didnt understand any of it, so I therefore dont understand why I found it so funny. :D

fish-head

That was fun. Didn't understand alot of it, I gathered that he prefers EPO to Champagne possibly because it makes him as strong as Raymond Poulidour.

Caroline_ie

fish-head wrote: »

That was fun. Didn't understand alot of it, I gathered that he prefers EPO to Champagne possibly because it makes him as strong as Raymond Poulidour.

Basically he says:

* EPO I love you, thanks to you I'll be Number one/ Thanks to you I'll have the best of all jerseys.

On the French roads I am enjoying the scenery; I can't spend too much energy if I want to win the tour. I am wandering around with my bike, with no effort and no complex, far ahead from the peloton, I'm singing a song: EPO I LOVE YOU.

When I feel a bit tired I stop by a field, and I take out from my bottle, a good old remedy. And when the stage is over people the crowd cheers me like a hero, I don’t care about Champaign, I prefer my EPO.

Cuter than Laurent Fignon and stronger than Poulidor, Crazier than Virenque, and better looking than Bernard Hinault.

Thank you my EPO

Brian?

That's gas, I am wondering if its a bit racist though seeing as he's dressed as a Spaniard. Or is it sour grapes about all their recent tour wins.

fish-head

It's just a big jab at Ricco I'd say.

Caroline_ie

briankeating wrote: »

That's gas, I am wondering if its a bit racist though seeing as he's dressed as a Spaniard. Or is it sour grapes about all their recent tour wins.

No, I think it's a pi$$ take of an old singer famous with our grannies in France singing with a very strong spanish accent. ( Obvioulsy it could be the spanish winner connection too )

Hermy

fish-head wrote: »

It's just a big jab at Ricco I'd say.

Big jab indeed!:P

Caroline_ie

fish-head wrote: »

It's just a big jab at Ricco I'd say.

No: Ricco is italian.

cantalach

briankeating wrote: »

That's gas, I am wondering if its a bit racist though seeing as he's dressed as a Spaniard.

I wondered how long it would take for the PC brigade to chime in with a comment to that effect...

Seeing as you've brought up the whole nationality issue though, lets look at the facts. Some time ago, Pat McQuaid made a comment to the effect that he was confident the Anglo/Germanic world would tackle the doping problem in a serious way but that he wasn't so convinced about the will of the Latins and others. He specifically named Italy and Spain and said that the cultural lassitude often associated with these countries would hinder the clean-up efforts, or words to that effect. He was heavily criticised for such "racist" remarks and I would agree that this probably isn't the sort of thing that a man in his position should be saying in public. Just looking at the evidence from the most recent Tour however, he might have had a point. The dopers were two Italians, two Spaniards and a Kazakh. I'm obviously not suggesting that an Anglo/Germanic rider will never again be caught but 0 from 5 ain't bad!

(N.B. Before somebody starts trotting out Anglo/Germanic names like Ullrich, Hamilton, Millar, Zabel, Riis, Jaschke, etc. please remember that McQuaid's comment was specifically referring to the ongoing efforts to clean up the sport - not what might have happened in the past.)

fish-head

Caroline_ie wrote: »

No: Ricco is italian.

Fish-Head is an idiot.

Diarmuid

Riccardo doesn't seem too happy with the quality of the EPO checks

From Cycling News

Italian Riccardo Riccò confessed to taking EPO to the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) prosecutor, Ettore Torri on Wednesday. Riccò tested positive for the drug following stage four of the Tour de France, forcing his team to pull its entire squad from the race.

The 24-year-old initially denied using the drug after being indicted on charges of "use of poisonous substances" in a court in Foix, but took responsibility for his actions, saying that he "made a mistake" by taking the drug. "What I did during the Tour is done. I made a mistake and the mistake is only mine," Riccò told ANSA outside the closed hearing.

Riccò was second overall at the Giro d'Italia, and was not originally scheduled to race the Tour de France. But he asked team manager Mauro Gianetti to add him to the roster in the weeks before the race. He went on to win the Tour's first mountain top finish in Super Besse before news of his positive test was announced.

"After the Giro, I had no plans to go to the Tour, and that is why I have taken the substance," Riccò said. "I made a mistake of youth."

Riccò has withdrawn his request to have a counter-analysis done on the B-sample, but said that the testing procedure needed some work. "Of the 10 controls taken, only two were positive. In theory all the tests should have been positive, therefore the method needs to be checked," he said.

The scandal resulting from Riccò's positive test led title sponsor Saunier Duval to withdraw its support from the team, although it did find a replacement sponsor last week. Ricco regretted the impact his actions had on the team. "My first thoughts go to my team and the staff who may have lost their jobs because of me, and my fellow team-mates who were forced to withdraw from the Tour de France."