Doping Cases and Bans 2018 Thread

[bestmen 2,827]

this is for heywoodu

 

Cycling   

 

Karsten Kroon revealed that he used the doping during his career

[heywoodu 15,174]

21 minutes ago, bestmen said:

this is for heywoodu

 

Cycling   

 

Karsten Kroon revealed that he used the doping during his career

Yep, somewhat interesting way that happened:

 

Kroon would work for the AD newspaper as analyst during last year's Giro, and to get the job he would confess his doping use publicly. Due to personal reasons he couldn't accept the job, but now, a year later, the journalist with who he would make the analyses of the daily stages revealed it anyway "because I can't stay quiet when I know something like this"  

 

Now Kroon didn't get the job + had no choice but confessing publicly + won't get money (because he burned the journalist by saying he only wanted Kroon to confess so he could write another book, like with Thomas Dekker). 

 

Oh well, nowdays Kroon is mostly known for being a co-commentator on Eurosport and having anecdotes about stuff like angry dogs during his trainings or "ah, rider X, I've been in his team for some years...*minutes going by*....so then we drank a beer.".

[bestmen 2,827]

he won many stages/trophies

[dcro 10,210]

1 hour ago, heywoodu said:

Oh well, nowdays Kroon is mostly known for being a co-commentator on Eurosport and having anecdotes about stuff like angry dogs during his trainings or "ah, rider X, I've been in his team for some years...*minutes going by*....so then we drank a beer.".

 

[heywoodu 15,174]

2 hours ago, bestmen said:

he won many stages/trophies

Kroon? Many?  

[heywoodu 15,174]

1 hour ago, dcro said:

 

The non-existing chemistry with the commentator is always fun and cringeworthy too. Kroon talking about the beautiful nature during a stage for minutes on an end and the commentator staying completely silent for a while until it's not so painful anymore to bring up something completely different. Or Kroon spending (literally) 5 minutes talking about buying a 180 dollar pair of swimming shorts in Oman or something (true story), followed by the commentator with an audibly painful time of trying to come up with anything to say.

[Gianlu33 4,607]

32 minuti fa, heywoodu ha scritto:

Kroon? Many?  

What? Where? How?  I remember only a Tour de France stage.. maybe

[Dragon 1,848]

1 hour ago, heywoodu said:

The non-existing chemistry with the commentator is always fun and cringeworthy too. Kroon talking about the beautiful nature during a stage for minutes on an end and the commentator staying completely silent for a while until it's not so painful anymore to bring up something completely different. Or Kroon spending (literally) 5 minutes talking about buying a 180 dollar pair of swimming shorts in Oman or something (true story), followed by the commentator with an audibly painful time of trying to come up with anything to say.

Who is the other commentator with Kroon?

[heywoodu 15,174]

8 hours ago, Dragon said:

Who is the other commentator with Kroon?

Most often Jeroen Vanbelleghem, a Belgian who usually does the Nordic combined in the winter and is one of the main commentators for cycling in the rest of the year. Sometimes Kroon works with José Been (TourDeJose on Twitter) being the main commentator, but more often she works with another former cyclist (Bobbie Traksel).  

[heywoodu 15,174]

By the way, with Kroon's confession, after 12 years we now have a full bingo card for the top-10 

 

 

And behind that we've got the likes of shady Italians Paolo Bettini and Eddy Mazzoleni in 12th and 14th, Juan Jose Cobo from the most shady Saunier Duval team ever in 15th, Igor 'one year fly and abnormal blood values' Astarloa in 16th, Maxim Iglinskiy in 17th, Iban Mayo (EPO) in 18th, Chris Horner of shady Saunier Duval (who later won the Vuelta as a great-granddad in terms of age) in 19th...

 

How fun, of the entire top-19 (!), 11th placed Fabian Wegmann seems to be the only one who doesn't have either a simple positive doping test or at the very least the stench of a huge shithole around him  

Edited April 25, 2018 by heywoodu