Whereabouts of Michael Rasmussen
The director of the pro-cycling team Rabobank has been fired, the team-leader Erik Breukink is under suspicion as well. During the research about how Rasmussen had managed to fool the entire team some stunning explanations were given.
Breukink new all the time about the real location and intent to mislead the UCI he even had a meeting with Rasmussen during the period he said Rasmussen was in Mexico, while the meeting was in Italy.. can you do the maths? More and more it seems obvious where and what Rasmussen was doing, he even published his blood-test results himself which showed unnatural results for a cyclist in such circumstances.
Below a picture of our fallen hero, doesn’t he look like a man who needs some…….?
Rasmussen has been fired directly after the Tour de France, team manager Theo de Rooij followed him shortly there after, The downfall in the Rabobank team hasn’t finished yet, Erik Breukink might be next. the stories are building up around him and he’s getting in a harder position each day. At the moment evidence that Breukink knew where Rasmussen was, and even worse, he knew that Rasmussen lied to the UCI to be able to get his own programme with the proved but not jet official drug Dynepo up and running. The tests from the tour showed that Rasmussen used this drug to enhance his blood to unreal levels. it Say’s that Breukink is in more deep than you’d want to be if you where wearing his shoes.
Its not clear that Breukink knew what Rasmussen was using, but you can figure out that he must have known that Rasmussen was using something that couldn’t be honest all the way. So to say that Breukink isn’t to blame is rather stretched, what hopefully will happen is that the Rabo-team decides its a good learning experience for Breukink and that he won’t make the same mistake again.
all in all you could say that the career in cycling for Michael Rasmussen is almost over, no way anybody can trust him after the stories he made up to prevent him to be blamed.
Even using his marriage to give excuses is rather pathetic if you ask me, I hope for his sake that it will stay with his cycling career and that it doesn’t end up in the deep regions of his private live. Even Rasmussen is still a cycling product from before the big doping problems and is probably influenced to much by the old cycling habits to know any better…
November 16th, 2007 at 4:28 am
Awesome, This Michael Rasmussen seriously screwed up his career with this…. Too bad, I liked him until the tour this year, not many riders make it from the MTB to the top in professional road cycling. So he was a sort of role model for me.