David Millar Interview

petethedrummer

http://nyvelocity.com/content/2009/millar-interview-podcast

and the transcript: http://velocitynation.com/content/interviews/2009/david-millar-interview

Pretty interesting and hopefully he's being honest. I'd love to give EPO a go, just for a week. To see what its like.

Lumen

petethedrummer wrote: »

I'd love to give EPO a go, just for a week. To see what its like.

Millar wrote:

You wouldn't notice it unless you were a high level athlete, an elite athlete.

I dunno about you, but that blows my plans out of the water.

Junior

as I mentioned in the NY comments pity they never asked him about Lim and the rumours..

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Millar

I find the dark area of our sport, the dark places, there's no other sport in the world that has had three or four major champions commit suicide through drug overdoses. You've got Jimenez, Pantani, Vandenbrouke - these were big guys in our sport - and they were talented, healthy. Can you imagine the amount of drugs it takes for them to kill themselves? It's something that we forget about. And that's the dark place that some of these guys go to.

Quite shocking when you hear him say this

SACH Central

Junior wrote: »

as I mentioned in the NY comments pity they never asked him about Lim and the rumours..

What rumours are they Junior?

RobFowl

SACH Central wrote: »

What rumours are they Junior?

Coached Landis at Phonak and now off to the Shack

IM0

RobFowl wrote: »

Coached Landis at Phonak and now off to the Shack

So? Ferrari 'advised' lance and he's clean .

Junior

Promises of time & leeway for scientific study, for coaching innovation, and for technological experimentation -- all in the name of bettering the team which he never got, basically that JV bullsh1ted him to keep him on board. LA woo'd him away with a 500k salary and a chance to work with the riders more closely esp. Taylor Phinney.

The other questions then followed him moving to the shack looking back at his interview with Kimmage, he comes across as being an innocent abroad and he didn't know about Landis's doping, yet he moves to the biggest enforcer of the omerta 'hear no evil, see no evil" which again brings Lim's 'vision/integrity' into question.

petethedrummer

Lumen wrote: »

I dunno about you, but that blows my plans out of the water.

Thats rubbish, its bound to work for anyone who tries it. More oxygen = go faster.

SACH Central

Junior wrote: »

Promises of time & leeway for scientific study, for coaching innovation, and for technological experimentation -- all in the name of bettering the team which he never got, basically that JV bullsh1ted him to keep him on board. LA woo'd him away with a 500k salary and a chance to work with the riders more closely esp. Taylor Phinney.

The other questions then followed him moving to the shack looking back at his interview with Kimmage, he comes across as being an innocent abroad and he didn't know about Landis's doping, yet he moves to the biggest enforcer of the omerta 'hear no evil, see no evil" which again brings Lim's 'vision/integrity' into question.

Ok. I don't know about Lim. I read Kimmage's article at the time and agree with you there. I was shocked when I saw he was moving to the shack. I would have thought he would have despised everything l.a. stood for. I followed/or used to follow him (until his 'big' move) on twitter and there's a whole load of his stuff on youtube. I would have thought that he was 'fulfilled' working with Garmin. They are IMO the only totally clean team in top flight pro cycling.

If he's as inocent as he made out in Kimmage's article then he's in for some shock with the shack. But there again there were guys caught doping on various bruyneel/l.a. teams in the past which l.a. claims he knew nothing about. So maybe it can go on under his nose and he won't see it.

I bet though that by this time next year he'll be a dab hand at giving transfusions!