The Irony from Riis on Schleck

October 4th, 2008 by Ricky Blayney

I’m sure by now you have all heard that Frank Schleck who wore the Yellow jersey for a few stages this year has been busted for making payments once upon a time to Dr. Fuentes the performance enhancing drug lord of the cycling world. I’m not going to bother getting into that but there was one thing that made me laugh:

Bjarne Riis (his team principle at CSC) said:

“We were very disappointed to hear that Fränk has been in contact with people who have done great harm to the sport and ruthlessly tarnished the most important principles that we all should adhere to in the fight against doping,” calling his behaviour “irresponsible towards himself and his team.”

Anyone else see the huge irony in that?

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