Thursday, August 30, 2007

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PSG is it magic? OM

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Topic 1: The PSG is it magic?

Topic 2:
Champions Quidditch Through the Ages.

Topic 1: The PSG is it magic?

To verify the claim of supporters Paris Saint Germain that "Paris is Magic!", it is necessary to examine the club from the French capital under different aspects: its origins, its leaders, its supporters, its legendary coach, its iconic player, and finally his historic game.

I - Origins

A-The cast
The first witch to have looked at the cradle of the GMP in 1970 did so in order to offer Paris a football club High level worthy of the name so that all major European capitals they have at least two representatives. To achieve their ends, they employed an incantation very powerful for the merger of the club Stade Saint Germain with that of Paris Football Club. In memory of this magical ceremony the crest of the club is now composed of an Eiffel Tower that spans a lily on top of a cradle. Version of this story intended for muggles is that these two symbols actually represent the city of Dauphin, birthplace of the future Sun King Louis XIV. The power of enchantment is such that it allows, in his first season at PSG FC newly created de France champion finished second division and join the elite in the wake of French football.

B-division
In 1972, the council of Paris then conditioned its grant to several factors including the fact that the club finally take the name of Paris FC. This requirement is unacceptable for "commuters" of Saint-Germain en Laye (city where today the training center and training center) therefore causes a rift between Paris FC remaining in D1 and Section Amateur PSG CF, it is downgraded to Division 3. Despite this setback in June 1974 after two successive promotions PSG FC found the first division and crosses the PFC which falls in D2. PSG has since then been the only French club to have continuously maintained at this level. If evidence is need the magic formula used in its creation, always protects effectively.

II - Leaders

A-era
Hechter Daniel Hechter's presidency from 1973 to 1978 was mainly marked by the creation by him of the famous magic club shirt (blue with a wide red stripe middle) whose supporters in Paris, very attached to the symbols, got back last season.

era B-Borelli
Hechter adventure ended after the scandal of double tickets to the Parc des Princes. Then comes the era of the charismatic president from 1978 to which Borelli 1991 provides for PSG's first major trophies: 2 cups of France (1982, 1983) and a champion of France in 1986 with players like Fernandez Susic, Rocheteau, Bats headed by a young novice coach named Gerard Houllier. It was then that the magic of PSG jersey is really beginning to manifest itself in obvious ways. How else to explain the resounding defeat of Jean-Luc Largardère with Matra Racing during his attempted implantation of a second professional football club in Paris between 1987 and 1989?

C - The era Canal +
But starting in 1991 that the magic will really to express themselves fully within the capital club. That year, Canal + took control of the PSG and offers highly talented international players: Bernard Lama, Alain Roche, Ricardo, Valdo, David Ginola, George Weah, Rai, and Youri Djorkaeff. This financial effort of Canal + is designed to offer an opponent the OM at its height to maintain the outstanding performance of his favorite customers (one of its two pillars with the adult film released on the first Saturday of the month ... ). In 1994, the club spent under the thumb of George Arthur won his second championship of France. The year before PSG might even benefit another security following the decommissioning of the OM after the famous case "VA-OM (OM cf Files investigation Marseille). League legally attributed this song to Paris but Canal Plus refused, even threatening to withdraw completely from football if the title was awarded to PSG. Indeed Canal did not want to finish the trash all decoders of many supporters of OM throughout France. The chain went so far as to deny that PSG dispute the Champions League after excluding OM European competitions. But it is in that Cup magic version of the GMP + channel operates most often. The balance sheet not less than 5 Cups of France (1993, 1995, 1998, 2004 and 2006), 2 League Cups (1995 and 1998) and cherry on the cake a European Cup Winners Cup in 1996 under the leadership of Luis Fernandez.
In 1998, the seven-Michel Denisot magical ending. The influential Biétry Charles takes over, but was forced to resign after only six months spent in club head. He leaves behind a bloodless as heavily indebted club following a recruitment policy for the least risky. His successor Laurent Perpère have nothing to envy with masterly missed the return of Nicolas Anelka, sold € 700 000 FC Arsenal and bought more € 33.2 million to Real Madrid for results far from what might be called a return on investment (39 games, 10 goals).
In 2002, the return of Luis Fernandez as coach does not really change things in sports performance despite the presence of talented players including Ronaldinho the magician. In an attempt to resolve the debt problem abysmal, Canal + then uses Francis Graille and Vahid Halilhodzic. Despite a drastic reduction in spending by nearly 40%, PSG sign a great 2003-2004 season with a Cup of France and a runner-up in Ligue 1, which opened the doors of the Champions League. Doors that PSG will take heavily on the fingers during the following season. Sport in crisis and at war with their fans, PSG got rid of Coach Vahid and then his ex-friend "Francis Graille recovery plan which the club failed to win the leadership of Canal +. Pierre Blayau was then appointed to find a buyer might be interested in the club. In April 2006, the principal shareholder announced the sale of the GMP to a U.S. investment fund (Colony Capital) with a French investment fund (Butler) and a U.S. bank (Morgan Stanley).

III - Supporters

A-The "People "

The magic power of the GMP is maintained by its exceptional media exposure. This probably because of the relentless pressure that many talented players lose their ways as if by magic by signing with Paris Saint Germain and end up just as mysteriously leaving the club. The media interest is such that the PSG is supported by a whole galaxy of personalities from the entertainment, media, sports and politics which regularly honors with his presence the "trash" the ultimate of rostrum of the Parc des Princes. Among the celebrities openly declared their commitment to PSG ago: Nicolas Sarkozy, Olivier Besancenot, Kool Shen, Enrico Macias, Roselyne Bachelot, Philippe Lucas, Christophe Dominici, Fabien Galthié, Jamel Debbouze, Gad Elmaleh, Patrick Bruel, Patrick Chesnais, Dominique Farrugia, Adamo, Ramzy Bedia, John Paul Belmondo, Paul Belmondo, François Berléand, Julien Clerc, Gérard Darmon, Jean-Luc Delarue, Lorant Deutsch, Mouss Diouf, Ladji Doucoure, Guillaume Durand, André Dussollier, Fabrizio, Richard Gasquet, Stephane Guillon, Hubert Henno, Francis Huster, Jean- Luc Lemoine, Michael Llodra, Nagui, Fabien Onteniente, Tony Parker, Cedric Pioline, Frédéric de Saint Sernin, Jean Tiberi, Dominique de Villepin Michaël Youn, Roschdy Zem, among others ...
Henri Salvador, it provides room for four adults living at Parc des Princes after a lifetime subscription offer for 10,000 francs instead launched under the chairmanship Hechter. But the palm of the VIP stand back no doubt that Frank Sinatra did not hesitate to cancel at the last concert at the Zenith in Paris to attend the match between PSG and Barcelona March 15, 1995.

B-ultras
The proof of the presence of powerful black magic Voldemort in this club is symbolized by the recurring problems with its fringe of his most violent supporters. The infamous Kop Boulogne (Boulogne Kop Of told KOB) was born in 1978 following the creation of a map of "young supporter" cheap giving access to this part of the Parc des Princes, so widely open to opposing fans. This group of supporters are calling upon creation of the British model whose watchwords of the day are punk exuberance, anarchy and violence ... In 1982, the punks are partly replaced by skinheads (often the same, past haircut ...). This forum has seen many racist outbursts and violent incidents even among its own members with the proponents of one side the British school and the other followers of the Italian school. In 1991, the pay channel that wants to end the violence of this forum opens the forum for "Auteuil" in the Italian ultras. Since 2005 many violent clashes opposed the Tigris Auteuil (mostly from the suburbs of Paris) to the "Independents" from Boulogne (nationalist extreme right). Gratuitous violence and hate the stupidity of these pseudo fans eventually led to the tragic death of one of their post-match UEFA Cup PSG-Tel Aviv 23 November 2006. In attempting to attack an Israeli club supporter and black policeman who was trying to protect an aggressive crowd shouting anti-Semitic and racist abuse of a regular forum Boulogne was killed and another was wounded by a bullet fired by the police (in self-defense in court).

IV - The legendary coach

A-The size
In 1995, Luis Fernandez, a former champion of France as a player with PSG in 1986, made his return at the Parc des Princes this times as' coach. His first season was a success. He won the Coupe de France, finished third in the championship and makes a great epic in the Champions League (including Barça cons of Johan Cruyff) signed an elimination against AC Milan in the semifinals. In 1996, Luis won the Cup Winners Cup against Rapid Vienna and at the same time becoming the first French coach of the victorious European Cup with a French club.

B-decay
Four years later, after an interlude in the Basque Athletic Bilbao, Fernandez is back in Paris. For two and a half seasons, and despite leading players like Okocha, Anelka and Ronaldinho, who was expected by the Parc des Princes as the messiah will not get the results live up to its previous passage. As Dumbledore said, "the magic formula effective one day is not necessarily one that will be the next ...».

IV - The iconic player

A - The day
Although the Brazilian Raimundo Souza Vieira de Oliveira (known as Rai) remains in the hearts of fans in Paris as a player and a captain of exceptional talent, c ' is his compatriot Ronaldinho remains the most magical player who one day wore the jersey of the GMP. Its fast, its inventiveness and exceptional technique enabled him to invent a new gesture in every game and score goals fabulous whether on kicks or at fantastic rides through opposing defenses. 2002 world champion with Brazil and the Ballon d'Or 2005, it is now considered the greatest dribbler of all time. In 2004, he left PSG for FC Barcelona for 30 million Euros.

B-Night
However like many other talented players before him was a little burned Ronaldihno lugs profit more than reason many opportunities for nightlife in the city light. These numerous misconduct affected largely consistent performance and have undoubtedly prevented from enriching few extra lines on the club charts. Luiz Fernandez was even forced to leave several times on the bench to try to resist the siren song of the captivating Parisian nightclubs.

V - The historic match

A - regulation time
On 18 March 1993, PSG is playing in the quarter-final second leg of the UEFA Cup against Real Madrid after losing the first leg 3 goals to 1 in Santiago Bernabeu. Holders Paris this evening are: Lama, Ricardo, Le Guen, Sassus, Kombouare, Guerin, Colleter, Valdo, Ginola, WHEA, Simba. From the 33rd minute, George Weah back victoriously to head a corner of Waldo. 1-0. The game is launched. The Parc des Princes is boiling. Throughout the match the Parisians grow but can not find the fault. Until the 81st minute. David Ginola, who is nicknamed "El Magnifico" by the press and Portugal to end the game, doubled the finding and action carried out efficiently by Valdo, Weah and Bravo. His shot has no chance to goalkeeper Buyo Madrid. (2-0). There are a few minutes for men in the capital for the 3rd goal inscire documentation of qualification. This will be done in the 89th minute when Valdo makes a superb feint shot that leaves behind a defender Madrid and adjusts Buyo. (3-0).

B-Additional time
In the 92nd minute twist. So we thought the qualification gained, the park celebrated the qualification, Real reduced the mark by Ivan Zamorano on a free kick off center. The qualification is challenged by the English view that allows to hang the extension. The disillusionment of Parisians have conceded that goal murderer of Chilean Zamorano in stoppage time is enormous, but all is not lost ... In the 96th minute, Mr. Puhl the match referee who does not yet seem to want to whistle the end of the match to give PSG a free kick 25 meters from the goal of Real. This is the free-kick the last chance before overtime. Brazilian Valdo is the head of Antoine Kombouare who deceives the English goalkeeper a headbutt exceptional. PSG qualifies for the semi-finals after a late winner crazy and magical entrance from the legendary French football club.

Conclusion

Considering all the evidence presented above we can only answer yes to the question of whether or not Paris is magical. But if the white magic has long prevailed over black magic, for ten years, the influence of the followers of Voldemort, which tends to take over. Demonstrates, the inconstancy of the results, the recurring problems of fan violence and the ongoing legal cases concerning fraud committed by tax and social club for transfers of players between 1998 and 2003. Alain Cayzac, the new president of PSG, historical shareholder and board member of the club since the late 1980's mission is to solve all these problems. To achieve this rather ambitious, he wanted from the start based on the glorious past of the club. Therefore, one of his first acts as president was to appoint Ambassador Raí PSG in Latin America, demonstrating to fans its commitment and respect for the club's history. In early 2007, is still to a "historic" the big time in the person of Paul Le Guen he turned to succeed in saving the PSG announced a relegation to Ligue 2. At the offseason recruiting, PSG did not, contrary to his custom, recruited big names but rather invested in the long term by signing promising young players like Gregory Bourillon (Rennes), Zoumana Camara (Saint- Etienne), Didier Digard (Le Havre) and incorporating even more players from his own training center which Chantôme Clement, David Ngog and Granddi Ngoyi. For now, the new sports policy geared towards youth at the expense of aging stars (Yepes, Gallardo, Pauleta) does not prevent a new MTP start of the season winded. Nevertheless, one can legitimately expect, given the current level of play in Paris, this new Paris on the future winner and he will soon allow the PSG soon find all the power of the white magic of yesteryear.


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Friday, August 10, 2007

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Files: Survey Marseille

agents Dana Scully and Fox Mulder Department unclassified FBI is specialized in finding the truth about the paranormal and more complex, it was logical to entrust them with the file " OM. " Their goal in this investigation, "go straight to the point" to see how this club was created in 1899 was first conquered the heart of Marseille city before extending its influence to the whole of France in the late twentieth century as the most popular of all football clubs of France.

Marseille - Stade Velodrome - August 10, 2007 - 5:55 p.m.

Scully: Mulder , why did you ask to join you here?

Mulder: To better understand the passion for their club Marseille is where it all begins. The first stone of the stadium was laid in 1933 but, due to financing problems, construction was suspended for two years. It is the organization by France to World Cup football in 1938 has revived the project of construction of the stadium of 35,000 seats at the time. His inauguration took place June 13, 1937 with a match between Olympique Marseille to Turin for a win 2 goals to One of the club.
In this stage, the fervor of the fans and the songs make this release a real 12th man can literally transcend the team he supports but clearly express his displeasure if deemed necessary. The seven groups of supporters of OM (Winners, Yankees, Dodgers, Fanatics, Commando Ultra 84, MTP, Club Central fans), despite their divisions, are a full member of their club because they controlled themselves a part of the sale of subscriptions and they often have the ear of the City Council when making important decisions for the club. This stage is inhabited
such a passion for football that sometimes attends paranormal beyond comprehension. And June 23, 1984, at the European Championship of Nations, 54,848 spectators attended the miraculous goal from Michel Platini at the last minute extensions of the semi-final France-Portugal and sending the Blues win a few days later the first title their history. In 1991, during the second leg quarter-finals of the Champions Cup OM-Milan AC, one minute of the match a pylon Velodrome gave up the ghost and the referee interrupted the match Karlsson. Taking advantage of this incident still unexplained, the left Rossonneri Lawn arguing that the game had to be rejoué.Après few minutes of incomprehension, the projector began in part to illuminate the lawn. Given the refusal of the Milanese to resume the game, the referee whistled the end of the match sending the OM in the semifinals. The last historical event that took place here was held at the 1998 World Cup. Following a further expansion of the stadium before 60,000 spectators is unbridled Christophe Dugarry, whose presence in the France team was challenged to say the least, scored the first goal of the epic magic of the Blues during the France match -South Africa.

Scully: Speaking of magic, when I asked people around the Velodrome I learned that in the late 80's a magician from the north of France, went regularly to trigger real scenes mass hysteria in this stadium. I'm fairly skeptical that such a hypnotic power can exist. Have you any info on this JPP which I have been so much talk on the side of the Canebière?

Mulder: Scully Absolutely. JPP are actually the initials of Jean Pierre Papin great instinctive striker who scored by some of his best goals with volleys and returned Acrobatics can be properly described as supernatural. They called these acts of techniques from elsewhere papinades. They earned him five times consecutively as the best scorer in France and even a ball of gold in 1991. These incredible goals in impossible angles and distances remain forever engraved in the memories of all fans in Marseille so much that they elected him "Player Olympian of the Century". But it is without him (and even against him) that OM is entered in the legend of French football, winning the Champions League by beating the big 1-0 AC Milan Berlusconi May 26, 1993 at the Olympic Stadium Munich .

Scully: By accessing the archives of the FFF and UEFA, I actually noted that at that time under the leadership of its president Bernard Tapie some, OM won between 1989 and 1992 at four times the championship of France of football. He even obtained a series of excellent results on the European scene until the game legend and famous headed goal from Basile Boli.

Mulder: True, at the final whistle of the match, the head "not beautiful" (the author's own admission), allowed all the people to exorcise the memory of Marseilles painful lost final against Red Star Belgrade two years ago. This headbutt's friend "Basilou" has also achieved the feat of drawing tears of joy to its president Bernard Tapie (his own wife had never seen him cry in twenty-five years together!) And miraculously make her coach, the old sorcerer Belgian Raymond Goethals, legs of a young man for a frenzied sprint on the turf in Munich.

Scully: So after this peak began the long descent into hell of OM, is not it?

Mulder: Yes, six days before the final of the Champions League, Olympique Marseille moved Valenciennes championship and imposed 1-0. While a fifth consecutive title was beckoning to the OM, the libero northerner Jacques Glassmann accused the leaders of Olympians have to try to bribe him and his teammates Christophe Robert and Jorge Burruchaga through Jean-Jacques Eydelie player OM and Jean-Pierre Bernès right arm of Bernard Tapie. On June 24, 1993, during the survey, 250,000 francs were found buried in the garden of her aunt Valenciennes player Christophe Robert. This corruption was to ask Valenciennes lift the foot to prevent the players from the OM to be injured just days before the final in Munich. Two years later the Criminal Court issued its verdict in Valenciennes in Case "VA-OM: the Marseille were stripped of their title of champion of France 1993 and Bernard Tapie was sentenced to two years imprisonment with one year closes, three years ineligibility and 20,000 francs fine (lighter penalty to two years eight months with farms on appeal). Jean-Pierre Bernès charged received for its two-year suspended sentence and a fine of 15,000 francs, Jean-Jacques Eydelie one-year suspended sentence plus a fine of 10,000 francs, Christophe Robert and Jorge Burruchaga took them six months suspended match a fine of 5,000 francs. He then had to wait until the 1996-1997 season to see how his OM back among the elite of French football after two years of purgatory in the second division.

Scully: Then at that time that Robert Louis Dreyfus, known as DRC, took control of the club right?

Mulder: No, It's the following year, 1997, that this brilliant and iconoclastic French businessman (the wealthy heir of Louis-Dreyfus family whose fortune was made in the trading of grains and the maritime industry) who was then president of Adidas, (company bought by Bernard Tapie in 1993), became majority shareholder of OM. For 10 years, this avid football and poker will engulf more than 200 million euros in the club without getting any respect (except for an unfortunate Intertoto Cup in 2005). In the end, all that this seasoned businessman, having obtained from his "dancer" is a condemnation of Marseille Marseille criminal court for abuse of corporate assets, three years suspended sentence and fined 375,000 euros at the trial said " Accounts of OM. This trial is bound to fifteen transfers in the period 1997-1999 that would have resulted in more than 22 million euros in bribes for the players, intermediaries and players' agents. In this case, Rolland Courbis is the former coach of this era that has been hit by the heaviest penalty. He was sentenced to two years imprisonment, eighteen months more farms to its partial revocation of suspension of previous convictions. In this case, the Fifth Chamber of the Court of Appeal of Aix-en-Provence, will deliver its final deliberation on October 17.

Scully: is probably for this reason that the respected businessman wants to sell the OM for several months?

Mulder: is indeed the most likely explanation. Although it has long taken a back seat in managing Daily Om entrusting the keys to the club of the prisoners (as Pape Diouf, Jose Anigo and Albert Emon at present), this questioning of his honesty was deeply bruised. It is within this context that legal disputes surrounding the announcement of the sale of the club was announced on March 1 at a certain Jack Kachkar businessman born Canadian of Armenian origin high-Syrian Lebanon. He wanted to buy the club 115 million by promising a virtually unlimited budget recruitment supposed to come to Marseilles some of the biggest players in the world including Samuel Eto'o, Carlos Tevez and Michael Owen. But given the uncertainty over its banking guarantees, the sale transaction OM failed to end of March 2007. Although took to Robert Louis Dreyfus because today the company headed by Inyx Kachkar been several complaints from its American creditors and was placed in receivership. DRC, meanwhile, has to engage the services of master Peter Haik, a tenor of the Paris Bar, to defend its interests on the complaint he filed for forgery and fraud and forgery against Kachkar on warranty bank of 115 million euros that he had produced to buy OM.

Scully: And in sports it happens right now to how the club eight times Champion of France and holder of ten cups of France?

Mulder: is pretty average, it must be recognized. At the end of last season's defeat against Marseille Sochaux Cup finals in France after the shoot on goal was even the straw that broke the camel's back to 200 million euros by Robert Louis Dreyfus. In the locker room, his frustration at having failed once again in the finals like last year against PSG (hereditary enemy of any self-respecting bear Marseille) was so great that he did not hesitate to treat his players of "petty bourgeois pile of crap, but are not!". However it may be thanks to this memorable gueulante a week later his club imposed itself 2 goals to 1 in the cauldron of "little green men" of Saint-Etienne allowing him to clinch second place in the championship and direct qualification for the next Champions League.

Scully: You really think OM can legitimately hold any hope of winning this competition again?

Mulder: I do not know but in any case, it will be very difficult since, given their Taxation and Bosman, French clubs are now much less well armed than their European counterparts to attract the best players and then win at the highest European level. In addition, OM lost in the offseason one of his best in the person of Franck Ribery. Nevertheless, 26 million euros of the amount of his transfer to Bayern Munich (over four million in case of qualification for Bayern's Champions League) led the club to make a quality recruitment including purchases of very Good players like Djibril Cisse, Karim Ziani, Benoit Cheyrou, Gael Givet or Boudewijn Zenden. If we add to that, promising young talent Samir Nasri and intervention of the good mother, why can not very optimistic, perhaps consider the possibility that OM meet in June in the final at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow to republish his feat of 1993. But even if the OM can not win the trophy again supreme all lovers of Olympique Marseille dream only of one thing (besides the fact, of course, to beat PSG!): That their club Preferred finally put an end to the domination of the OL on the championship of France.

Scully: OL ... ? Ah yes, Olympique Lyonnais ! This is the club headed by Jean-Michel Aulas, the ambitious president, manipulative and pretentious who for six years without sharing dominates the league every year but one is unable to surpass the quarterfinals of the Champions League ? But wait, maybe it's the real secret of the love of French for the OM: having been the first club to win this race tricolor that famous May 26, 1993!

Mulder: Scully Well done. I think you've just completed our investigation Olympique Marseille. Indeed, beyond the court cases, the lack of trophy won last ten years and rumors of the influence of the local mafia on the lives Olympian is no doubt the memory of the conquest of the cup "with big ears" which explains why the number of supporters of OM s student still more than 9 million across the whole of France. So finally a done deal! We can now return to the search for evidence of conspiracy to conceal the existence of an imminent invasion of Earth by aliens!


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The good old days of OM triumphant
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Wednesday, August 1, 2007

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Bike Wars saga continues

Not so long ago, in a universe not so far away ... the Tour de France 2007. UCI Empire led by Pat "Dark" McQuaid, a disciple of the former emperor Hein Verbruggen, wants to impose the law of his ultimate weapon the "Pro Tour" and its ambiguous approach towards the problem of doping in the whole galaxy cyclist. The rebellion led by ASO Christian "Luke" Prudhomme and Patrice "Yoda" Clerc, refuses the dictates of the UCI Empire to save the Tour de France from destruction Total. While the "War of Bicycles" between the UCI and ASO has just been officially declared, it is currently difficult to predict the outcome of this conflict that largely determines survival in the short term this wonderful sport of cycling.


Episode I - The threat doping
While all cycling fans wanted this 94th edition of the Tour de France is that of "reconquest" Doping has again been the object of attention throughout the month of July. Hosted by ASO (Amaury Sport Organisation), the most beautiful cycling event on the planet that is integral part of French cultural heritage and sport is now more than ever under the direct threat of doping. For proof, sponsors Adidas such historical or Crédit Agricole and, for the first time, broadcasters of the event (the German public broadcasters ARD and ZDF) have decided to throw in the towel following the scandals that have occurred this year. This is probably why Christian Prudhomme, the Tour director, said after the exclusion of Vinokourov that "those who cheat to play Russian roulette. They have to put that right in the head "(sic). To prevent this type of suicidal behavior organizers Tour have therefore initially refused to register the riders involved in Operación Puerto and then imposed on the UCI (Union Cycliste Internationale) a charter to be signed by all riders before the start of the competition. The document stipulated that the riders were willing to give their DNA to the English court and pay the amount of their annual salary in case of doping rule violation during the Tour de France. This last measure that addresses the last name of the game is money really has not had the desired effect with regard to the proliferation of new doping scandals that have tainted this race again.

Episode II - Attack of the doped
the first to have been taken by the patrol appointed Patrick Sinkewitz. The German team T-Mobile (itself already at the heart of a scandal without precedent in Germany following the revelations made by Jeff d'Hont his former masseur from 1992 to 1996) was caught during the Tour by a testing positive for testosterone after a test conducted unannounced during a workout. The second case of doping, even more sensational was that the Kazakh rider Alexandre Vinokourov. Favorite for the race, he offended the eve of the departure of the great London loop that can be surprising for its collaboration with the infamous Dr Ferrari (great friend of Lance Armstrong ...). Victim of a fall that he took off his chances of victory, the leader of the Astana team which had won two beautiful stages at the Tour in 2007 he has been guilty of doping by homologous transfusion (or the use of blood from a compatible donor to enhance his hematocrit). He therefore, as tradition dictates, was excluded from the competition with his team. Another rider was also found positive for testosterone in the person of Italian Cristian Moreni of Cofidis. To finale, we just learned that the Basque Iban Mayo of Saunier-Duval team has taken her hand in the pot of EPO during the rest day July 24.

Episode III-Revenge of the UCI
But the biggest controversy of the 2007 Tour is the one linked to the case of Denmark Michael Rasmussen. At four days of arrival on the Champs Elysees, the yellow jersey was disheartened that all his opponents on the slopes of the Alps and the Pyrenees which should logically win the 450,000 € devolved to the winner was excluded from his Rabobank team for lying Driving at his place during its preparation to avoid random checks. The UCI was aware of this serious breach of its rules has willfully failed to report these violations to the organizer of the large loop that if he had known would certainly have refused the participation of the rider and his team . From there to see a move of the Union Cycliste Internationale designed to discredit an event with which it has long been antagonistic relations there is only one step. Not that ASO, the voice of its chief executive Patrice Clerc, has not hesitated to carry openly accusing the UCI of trying to deal a fatal blow to the Tour de France. With this Dirty Tricks, the UCI would have to pay the ASO conflict between them since the creation in 2005 of his "Pro Tour". This system requires that the 20 elite teams selected by the UCI to participate in 27 events to his calendar is supposed to give a world ranking individual and team clearly intended to promote the image of cycling. ASO wants his side to retain the power to invite whomever he wishes on events that it organizes (The Tour de France, Paris-Nice, the Criterium International, Paris-Roubaix, Fleche Wallonne, Liege-Bastogne-Liege The Tour de Picardie, Le Tour de l'Avenir, Paris-Tours). Its aim is thus to avoid hypocrisy some team managers in selecting only teams who have the willingness to effectively fight against doping.

Episode IV - War of the bike
By the end of the Tour, Christian Prudhomme and Patrice Clerc, denounced concert incompetence and even the malevolence of the UCI and its president for them. Pat Mc Quaid, meanwhile, criticized the repeated doping scandals affecting the Tour for many years and the choice made by ASO for inviting the Astana team of Vinokourov (not a member of the Pro Tour!). Rasmussen regarding the case, the UCI, in its defense argues that Article 45 of the Rules provides that non-participation of a rider who has been notified within 45 days of a great ride "is not proportionate to the offense" and that it could have been caught court if it decided to apply ... Patrice Clerc, meanwhile, responded by saying that the Tour de France now wants to emerge from the "acting, lacks transparency and professionalism" of the current leaders of the UCI, turning to the federations, governments and agencies fight against doping. War of the bikes that was masked for many years is So today officially declared.

Episode V - The doping-cons attack
Just Alberto Contador he was crowned on the Champs Elysees that suspicions regarding its performance are already on the agenda. Like many of his predecessors (Delgado, Riis, Ullrich, Pantani, Armstrong, Landis) performance of the English member of the Discovery Channel (the former team of Lance Armstrong) quoted and cleared in Operación Puerto, is already in doubt. Indeed his recent victory is regarded by the German expert of the fight against doping, Werner Franke, "more big swindle in sporting history. " This specialist known for his wit, sometimes a punch, says possess the protocol list of doping Contador containing insulin, a hormone that stimulates the secretion of testosterone and a product for asthma. He also denounced the fact that the English sports authorities cover their rider in this case. It is therefore appropriate to ask whether the proponents of the fight against doping will end one day they catch up on cheaters (Rasmussen has undergone 17 anti-doping controls, but only one has been positive. ..). The evolution of the doping molecules appear soon gene technology is a dramatic problem that must concern all those who legitimately want to restore credibility in the short term cycling.

Episode VI - Return of cycling
To fight against doping in sport in general and cycling in particular, Jean-François Lamour, current vice-president of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), spoke recently the need for better detection methods, increased random checks during the preparations, as well as increasing penalties for an athlete guilty of doping. These measures could be adopted as early as November, at the next World Anti-Doping Conference in Madrid. Conference during which Jean-François Lamour run for the estate of Dick Pound as head of WADA. Cycling to save him Patrice Clerc suggested the creation of an "ethical passport" that would be issued to teams within the rules of the fight against doping and the study of the launch of a new formula for the Tour de France with the return of national teams. Some French and German teams worried for their own survival they have taken the lead in founding a "Movement for cycling credible." It remains to
Hopefully all these measures will be effective enough to save the Tour de France, the most popular sporting event after the World Cup Soccer and Olympic Games. All those who love the bike and still continue to follow each year with passion the Tour de France have only one hope: that the Force is finally with those who really want to save the galaxy cycling doping!


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