Author Archives: Steve Tilford

Taking Tucker to the Northwoods

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I’m driving up to Wisconsin to let Tucker run around in Bromont’s old favorite stomping grounds, the Northwoods around Cable.  That isn’t the only reason, but it is a good one.

I’m also getting a tooth fixed that has been bugging me for the past month.  Bad teeth and health go hand and hand.

Tucker and Hawkeye are super buddies, so maybe Hawkeye will show him around.

I thought it was great how many suggestions I got yesterday why I was riding badly and how to fix them.  Anywhere from you’re getting too old to race and should just hang it up to you just need some coaching to figure out how to go fast.  Someone has to be right and then then rest wrong.  I’ve had pretty good “luck” throughout my sporting life preserving during slumps.  I can’t see why this one would be any different than the others.

It is a little different because I put it out the publicly, I guess.

The weather in Kansas was going to be extremely hot.  I was a bit hesitant to leave because sometimes riding super slow, in the heat of the day, during hot spells, snaps me back into form.  I’m not sure why that is, but it has worked in the past.

Tucker has no idea where he’s going to end up.  I hope he is pleasantly surprised.

Tucker was looking for anything to cool off on the walk before we left.  He obviously got a bath.

Tucker was looking for anything to cool off on the walk before we left. He found a mud puddle.  He obviously got a bath.

Puerto Blood Bags Released

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I have a hard time believing that the Spanish authorities have released the blood bags confiscated in Operation Puerto 10 years ago.  If I were a betting guy, which I can be, I would have put a lot down that those blood bags were going to be destroyed.

It is weird thinking that it has been 10 years and it is the same old.  I bet Valverde is happy that the Italians set him on the pious path and that he’s already served his suspension.  Supposedly there are 35 different athletes associated with the 211 bags of blood. The chart below is a good guestimate of who’s blood is there.   I still can’t believe Mancebo had 20 bags.  I’m not sure how you get that many bags of non-stale blood stored.  They must of drained him dry after putting some of the older stuff back in?

Seems like most everyone is getting a sample of the blood.  Maybe not  USADA.  Seems like they like to be part of the party.  They are again, supposedly, sending the samples off to Spanish cycling federation, the UCI, WADA and the Italian Olympic Committee.  Seems like enough to start with.

The rumor was there were a bunch of Spanish football players that did the World Cup, plus a very famous Spanish tennis star involved, so that is why this all took so long.  I guess we’lll see if those rumors come true.

The weird thing is that the same judge that ruled on releasing the blood acquitted the doctor at the heart of the investigation, Eufemiano Fuentes, and three others involved for crimes against public health.  He ruled that blood isn’t a medicinal product.  Wow.  I think that blood is pretty medicinal.  Like the most “medicinal product” our bodies contain.  But, law is law.

Anyway, this should be interesting  I guess we’ll find out who was hiding under some of those rocks.

 

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Tucker and Hawkeye acting all good.

Tucker and Hawkeye acting all good.