suspended pending further notice
A day after offering Olympic time trial champion Tyler Hamilton their support, cycling's Phonak team have suspended the American for failing dope tests.
"The team leader (Hamilton) has been suspended pending further notice," the team said Wednesday.
"He will remain so until the proceedings are completed. If Hamilton is not able to prove his innocence, then the contract will be canceled effective immediately."
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"...so long as we're not 100 percent certain that he's guilty of manipulation, we will believe him," Rihs said in a statement. He said results of the B tests were expected later on Wednesday.
Neither the International Olympic Committee (IOC) nor cycling's ruling body, the UCI, have made an official comment about Hamilton's test results. Athletes inject oxygen-boosted blood from other people to increase their endurance.
Reuters 22.Sep.04
Look at the bikes they ride. Look at the exercise regimens, the training scientists employed full-time, the control of every variable in their lives including thought. What the hell difference does it make if they get blood transfusions? It's absurd, it's been taken so far beyond any real human contest, it's a competition between technologists, between trainers and theories, the actual human body's in the way.
The results are meaningless in any human context, "doping" or no.
