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All perfectly clean races in a new era of clean, clean racing.
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23-28 Apr 2013 Tour de Romandie (Sui)
4-26 May 2013 Giro d’Italia (Ita)
2-9 Jun 2013 Critérium du Dauphiné (Fra)
8-16 Jun 2013 Tour de Suisse (Sui)
29 Jun-21 Jul 2013 Tour de France (Fra)
27 Jul 2013 Clasica Ciclista San Sebastian (Esp)
27 Jul – 3 Aug 2013 Tour de Pologne (Pol)
12-18 Aug 2013 Eneco Tour (Ita)
24 Aug – 15 Sep 2013 Vuelta a España (Esp)
25 Aug 2013 Vattenfall Cyclassics (Ger)
1 Sep 2013 GP Ouest France – Plouay (Fra)
13 Sep 2013 Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec (Can)
15 Sep 2013 Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal (Can)
5 Oct 2013 Giro di Lombardia (Ita)
9-13 Oct 2013 Tour of Hangzhou (Chn)
16-20 Oct 2013 Tour of Beijing (Chn)
via UCI confirms 2013 WorldTour calendar.
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He’s one of those triathlon guys when it’s all said and done.
…In the end, no matter how much Tygart and Armstrong had fought each other, they still needed each other. Armstrong, 41, would like to resume competing in triathlons and running events that are sanctioned by organizations that follow the World Anti-Doping Code. Tygart wants to know how Armstrong so skillfully eluded testing positive for banned drugs for nearly a decade.
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“I think it’s very valuable to them to know exactly how Lance avoided getting caught and how tests were evaded,” said Jonathan Vaughters, a former Armstrong teammate, a vocal antidoping proponent and a current co-owner of the Garmin-Sharp professional cycling team. “They need someone on the inside to tell them how it was done, and not just anyone on the inside, someone on the inside who was very influential. Someone like Lance.”
via What Would Lance Armstrong and Usada Gain With Confession? – NYTimes.com.
Bunk-owski. Tygart knows exactly how Armstrong dunnit, because the other guys who had also “eluded positive tests for nearly a decade” testified all about it. And those guys are on Vaughters’ team. He reaches the seventh level of weasel in his quote above.
(After 6-month suspensions those fellas will be back racing and cashing in on their doping by next season. But of course, they all decided at exactly the same time not to do it any more, and race totes clean now. ALL CLEAN NOW. Go home.)
When reading or listening to Vaughters it’s important to keep in mind some things: THE SAME PEOPLE
