Ho ho ho! Merry xmas! Just in time for the Tour de France, another big pro cycling star goes down, this time for. . .you guessed it, EPO! Wheee! This time it’s the kid sensation Thomas Dekker, currently of Silence Lotto fame (and a would-be key support man for Cadel come next week), formerly a Rabo superstar circa the Rasmussen has AIDS/got busted for doping scandal. Man, what a trip. What a totally expected, predictable trip.

The only strange thing about this particular deal is that Tommy boy is being popped for the presence of EPO in a 2007 sample. Really? It takes that long to put the pieces together?

At this point, a star athlete can go out, dope his/her ass off, rake it in, then get busted and have enough money to essentially say fuck you all, it was worth it. That’s an irremediable problem, but just look at Manny Ramirez. Same dealio yo.

 

This will not be the last dope storm re: the Tour de France. I predict a minimum of three big names will go down for doping in this Tour, and they’re not going to be the people you expect to be doping either. Think ‘clean as a whistle’ types. Because those types don’t in fact appear to exist in modern professional cycling anymore (if they ever did). Tadow.