VeloNews asks, What’s Next For Vino? The Taint says: Give the man a top hat and let him be ringmaster of the doping circus. Dopers have done many stupid, bad things, but Vino’s rabbit in a hat trick belongs in the lowest rung of fallen hero hell for perpetuity. Too bad he didn’t get a lifetime ban. But if he had, you can bet your ass he wouldn’t have gone down without throwing half the peloton under the bus. The man knew too much to be gotten rid of for good. And he has the Kazakh government behind him. There’s not a UCI official out there who would want to risk downing a piece of poisoned sushi just to keep the Kazakh ‘hard man’ (as in hard in the head) from racing.

 

Vino, we used to love ya. Now you’re just a powder blue puff that may float to the top of a podium or two, but see if we believe it.