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As a matter of record, the teams that Bruyneel directed in his ten Tours de France were tested more frequently than any other teams. I’m not going to look it up for you, but it is true. The urine and blood samples from his teams have also been tested YEARS later by the French, and no rider has ever tested positive under those circumstances, either. The only other teams and/or riders to undergo this type of scrutiny were those caught up in the large, multi-sport and multi-rider doping rings that have been discovered (Operacion Puerto for one, and the current investigation being carried out by Italian authorities. Teams and riders not implicated in these scandals have not endured anywhere close to the scrutiny that Bruyneel’s teams have, and his teams have done nothing except win a lot of bike races. It is now common practice to test retroactively for substances that could not be tested for in previous years, but only because there are now tests for some of those things, and the tests didn’t exist before. This is a relatively recent development and only Bruyneel’s teams were treated this way by the French before it became standard WADA policy. That testing has produced more than a few positives, sanctions and suspensions, and you really expect anyone to believe that the only reason Bruyneel’s teams haven’t tested positive for any banned substances is because they’re CLEVERER that the rest?

As far as your comments about Bruyneel and other riders that doped back in the day, you’re comparing apples to oranges. There were very few banned substances in those days, almost no testing, and a different culture in the peloton. Today, there is widespread rider, team and sponsor opposition to doping and the testing is more sophistacated than ever before. There is even a “biological passport” that riders from the Pro Tour teams are required to submit that is monitored for fluctuations in a rider’s blood values throughout the season. An odd reading can result in a rider’s being suspended and fired from his team, and a positive dope test isn’t even required. One rider being fired can (and has) resulted in sponsors pulling their support, leaving other (innocent) riders and team staff without jobs.

There are more than a few people out there that don’t like the fact that an American is the face of international cycling, and has won the most prestigiuos bike race in the world seven times. If you know how the French view the Belgians, you already know how they feel about Bruyneel. They’ve been trying to nail Bruyneel and Armstrong for ten years now, and have failed, all while catching scores of other riders. If there was something there, they would have found it by now.

Maybe you do need to be taught about cycling.

Space.com

Specifically, physicists discovered a 1 percent difference between pairs of muons and antimuons that arise from the decay of particles known as B mesons.

(see, it isn’t completely about the mayonnaise after all.)

no word as to whether any of the physicists quoted Raider HC Tom Cable by saying “I’m geeked!” after the discovery although one did say he got goose bumps.

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what’s BO? Barack Obama?

JR was on that BO as well thats why he was slow to