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The updated podium from the 2005 Tour de France

Remember that guy Jan Ullrich who used to finish second (or third) to Armstrong all the time baring that one time he won the Tour in 1997 when Armstrong wasn’t racing? Well, here on February 9, 2012 he has been found guilty of doping offenses related to the 2006 Operation Puerto investigation and had all the results he achieved since May 2005 annuled after the Court of Arbitration for Sport upheld a UCI appeal into the cyclist. In the biggest case of “so what?” since Dennis Menchov was awarded a podium spot for the 2010 Tour on Monday, Ullrich was also banned from the sport until August 22, 2013 — not for life as the UCI had hoped — though they might have well just banned him until tomorrow afternoon given the difference it will make to a rider who has been retired for over half a decade.

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Like boss, like team leader: Contador arrives at press conference

In a press conference that will have shocked nobody to the bone, Alberto Contador sat down along side team-manager and former performance enhanced doping pin-king, Bjarne Riis, and revealed the mind shaking news that he is in fact innocent of the doping violation for which he was found guilty on Monday. Contador was banned for two years but due to the back dating of the ban, he’ll actually be available to ride come August 5 of this year. “The way I feel right now is deceived,” he sobbed before assorted hacks, and a handful of his mates who had gathered at the back to roundly applaud him.

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It was pointed out to The Cycle Seen this afternoon that Lance Armstrong finished third in the 2009 Tour de France as opposed to the 2010 Tour as mentioned in this article. It kind of negates the point of the article, but I felt that for the sake of good fun I’d leave it up anyway if you can stretch your imagination to believe that Armstrong’s third place (now second and as below will reveal, soon to be first) did in fact come in 2010. I mean, you won’t take it seriously anyway . . . we all know it requires 88 miles-per-hour to engage the flux capacitor). — Ed.

You wouldn’t believe were one of these can take you when fitted to your seat pin

The Cycle Seen has climbed onto it’s bike with a flux capacitor fitted to the seat pin and sped down the steepest hill in sight to a speed of 88 km/h (yes I know it’s only kilometers) and blasted forward twelve months into an uncertain future. Here’s what we found leading the way on this very website…

In a phenomenal turn of events, 2012 Tour de France runner-up, Andy Schleck, has admitted he used performance enhancing drugs through the early part of his career up to and including the 2010 Tour de France of which he was elevated to winner of just twelve months ago when Alberto Contador was found guilty by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) of ingesting the banned substance Clenbuterol. As a result, the UCI have stripped him of that Tour win and awarded it to the man who originally finished third, but who is now the eight time winner of the Tour, Lance Armstrong.

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The man on the right has been bumped up to second today, which — if WADA take up the baton left beind by the US Feds this week — could prove to be his best Tour result!

It’s been a good day for anti-doping as this morning the tortoise in the relay race in the case against Alberto Contador that has seen the baton pass from the UCI to WADA to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) finally crossed the finishing line with a decision on the guilt of the beef eating Spaniard. The hammer of justice came thumping down with a “guilty, guilty, guilty” verdict and a two year ban, which by the mathematical calculations of CAS, expires on August 5th, of this year.

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In the end, these won’t be the arms of Lance Armstrong

Before it is confined to the annals of history — or until it comes up again in three or four weeks like a your mortgage payment that won’t go away — I thought I’d get a few quick words in on the latest development in the case (or as it is now, non-case) against performance enhancing drug denier, Lance Armstrong…

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When Francesco Schettino, the captain of the doomed Costa Concordia claimed that he “tripped and fell into a life boat” which took off before he had the chance to get out, his excuse went down in history as the second worst/best (depending on how you look at it) excuse of all time behind only that of Alberto Contador who once claimed his positive test for the banned substance Clenbuterol was the work of a tainted piece of meat he eat during a Tour de France rest day.

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I had hoped to get this site up and live around the turn of the new year but unfortunately time, among other things, conspired against me and so we find ourselves into the middle of the first month of the new year, but before the year of our Lord twenty-hundred and eleven disappears too far into our rear views, let’s hand out some awards for the year that was…

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I just so happened to have opened up this site on the eve of the first WorldTour race of the season. It wasn’t planned that way but since the the pro season is about to kick-off, I might as well say a few words about it and indeed give you someone as a prediction to put your hard earned cash on, but with no guarantees it’ll actually make you rich.

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