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Sparky
Joined: 08 Dec 2003
Posts: 19083
Location: PDX10/23/15 12:35 PM |
Now that LA is telling the truth and all. ;)
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dan emery
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 6890
Location: Maine10/23/15 1:05 PM |
Good grief
This is like a joke....
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JohnC
Joined: 10 Jan 2004
Posts: 1939
Location: Glastonbury, Ct10/23/15 1:22 PM |
Not defending anyone, but the practice of a rider paying a competitor a share of the winnings to help out is an old one in the sport. But this is on a more extensive and organized level, it seems to me.
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dan emery
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 6890
Location: Maine10/23/15 2:06 PM |
paying competitor
Well I'm no expert but I've understood that to be something like so a guy will work in a break, whereas this is like fixing a prize fight.
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PLee
Joined: 08 Dec 2003
Posts: 3713
Location: Brooklyn, NY10/23/15 2:39 PM |
It also seems like prosecutors are ready to go after the corruption more and more. The somewhat recent adoption in Europe of serious anticorruption and antibribery laws might have something to do with it.
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ErikS
Joined: 19 May 2005
Posts: 8337
Location: Slowing boiling over in the steamy south, Global Warming is real10/23/15 5:19 PM |
I look at it and go.
Duh, even then I thought the races were bought. I thought and still think a great number of races are bought or agreed to prior to the start and some during the race.
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daddy-o
Joined: 12 Apr 2004
Posts: 3307
Location: Springfield10/23/15 6:53 PM |
Tennis
Soccer
Rugby
Formula 1
Motorcycles, yeah, that's a pure innocent bunch
Going after cycling is easy given the history and not going after any of the other ones is safe, given the history.
I say 'good' but spread the enforcement around and do it from the start or else the enforcement will become corrupted too.
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daddy-o
Joined: 12 Apr 2004
Posts: 3307
Location: Springfield10/23/15 9:05 PM |
Ochowicz on the left, who's on the right?
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