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Millar in Commonwealth Games but little chance for the 2010 Olympics

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  • #2
    55x11
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    I really don't know why his ban has been lifted. Everyone seems to think he is a saint but he was one of the dirtiest riders back in the day and probably still would be if he hadn't got caught. Also I doubt there will be any likelihood of seeing him in 2012, GB are already priming up guys who will suit the circuit they choose in London, guys like Swift, Kennaughs, Bellis, Thomas and of course Cav.


  • #3
    Junior
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    55x11 wrote: »
    I really don't know why his ban has been lifted. Everyone seems to think he is a saint but he was one of the dirtiest riders back in the day and probably still would be if he hadn't got caught. Also I doubt there will be any likelihood of seeing him in 2012, GB are already priming up guys who will suit the circuit they choose in London, guys like Swift, Kennaughs, Bellis, Thomas and of course Cav.

    I think that's a bit of an overstatement there - it's not as if he was buxom buddies with Ferrari or Cecchini, he did drugs got caught, got banned and has come back. He hasn't been one of those riders who constantly did them, based their season around them and did everything in their power to rip off the public by claiming they are the greatest knowing they were doped to the gills.


  • #4
    IM0
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    thats good I think, Ive read some stuff about millar and he's been so pro active on the anti doping thing now its good he's been rewarded. When I read some of that stuff it really made me change my mind about him from then on.


  • #5
    blorg
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    His "lifetime" ban has been lifted for the Commenwealth Games because he is already back competing at the top level of the sport, has shown promise, they want him and there aren't a ton of other Scottish options.

    Britain in the broader sense presumably doesn't need him to quite the same degree.

    Personally I like the guy, he is certainly no saint but I do think he is reformed.


  • #6
    Slideshowbob
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    He should have got a life ban

    Makes me sick to hear ex druggies pontificating about doping / anti-doping!


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  • #7
    Chips Lovell
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    You prefer them to be unrepentant?


  • #8
    Beasty
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    The UK does not allow anyone (from any sport) to compete in the Olympics after a drugs man. Dwain Chambers, who had represented Team GB in the 100m at the Sydney Olympics, failed a test in 2003. He went to Court to try and get a place in the 2008 team, but was unsuccessful.

    There is no such rule, however, in respect of the Commonwealth Games


  • #9
    Slideshowbob
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    el tonto wrote: »
    You prefer them to be unrepentant?

    I'd prefer them not to dope in the first place. I'd prefer they got life bans when caught. I'd prefer them not to be welcomed back to the sport.

    There's a difference between repenting and pontificating.


  • #10
    Lumen
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    blorg wrote: »
    little chance for the 2010 Olympics

    Does he ski?


  • #11
    Beasty
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    Lumen wrote: »
    Does he ski?
    Funnily enough, Alain Baxter, the alpine skier who was stripped of his bronze medal at the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics for a positive drugs test (claimed to have been due to taking a cold remedy where the UK equivalent did not contain banned goods) is trying out for the Scottish (track) cycling team for the 2010 Commonwealth Games.


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  • #12
    TinyExplosions
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    Beasty wrote: »
    The UK does not allow anyone (from any sport) to compete in the Olympics after a drugs man. Dwain Chambers, who had represented Team GB in the 100m at the Sydney Olympics, failed a test in 2003. He went to Court to try and get a place in the 2008 team, but was unsuccessful.

    There is no such rule, however, in respect of the Commonwealth Games

    Apart from Christine Ohuruogu of course, who went down the "I'll leave Britain and compete in the Olympics for another country if you don't change your mind" route


  • #13
    Beasty
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    TinyExplosions wrote: »
    Apart from Christine Ohuruogu of course, who went down the "I'll leave Britain and compete in the Olympics for another country if you don't change your mind" route
    Yes - I think her argument was she never failed a test (just failed to turn up for one, or two, or was it three?)


  • #14
    RobFowl
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    Beasty wrote: »
    Yes - I think her argument was she never failed a test (just failed to turn up for one, or two, or was it three?)
    She missed 3 (including one where she was phoned anf told to turn up where she said she was going to be but didn't) which in WADA'a terms is the same as failing a test


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