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don’t buy O’Grady’s book

  • by Lee Rodgers
  • Posted on February 28, 2014

Confessed dopers Tyler Hamilton, Levi Leipheimer and George Hincapie are rumoured to be planning a…

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14 responses to “don’t buy O’Grady’s book”

  1. Flat Out Forty Avatar
    Flat Out Forty
    February 28, 2014

    I can’t agree more, all the points you made are valid. Here’s a thought, if you don’t think you can win enough prize money even after doping but you have some charisma, go ahead and dope anyway, get caught and write a book. Think of the sponsorship coverage (there are always sponsors willing to take risks – look at Michael Ball and Rock Racing). Could cycling, and other sports, end up going down this path of having doping celebrities making a better living out of wrong doings??

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    1. Bartow R. Avatar
      Bartow R.
      March 1, 2014

      Exactly Forty, great post!

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  2. David Moore Avatar
    David Moore
    February 28, 2014

    Yes agree 100 %. Please folks, quit supporting these dopers with your hard earned money.

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  3. Alastair Merrill Avatar
    Alastair Merrill
    February 28, 2014

    Another good article. This was a great line Lee, made me chuckle: ‘with a naivety that strayed well into stupidity’!

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  4. Kix Avatar
    Kix
    February 28, 2014

    Top Notch CP.

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  5. Howard Martin Avatar
    Howard Martin
    February 28, 2014

    There needs to be a serious deterrent for the ‘crime’ of doping. How about one strike and you’re out – for life. What about mandatory jail time? Hell, there has to be a punishment larger than the prize. Zero tolerance and 100% accountability. Nothing less

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  6. Kevin Berent Fogelberg Avatar
    Kevin Berent Fogelberg
    February 28, 2014

    Damn straight! And I loved the pun!

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  7. James Avatar
    James
    March 1, 2014

    If you feel so strongly about this why do you have a photo of you and Eddie Merckx on your aboutpunk page? Populist journalism if ever I’ve seen it.

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    1. crankpunk Avatar
      crankpunk
      March 1, 2014

      Eddie cheated, he doped, i know this, but does having a photo taken next to him mean i endorse his doping or condone it? if i saw Lance or Floyd would i have one taken with them? maybe. and i’d have to say that having a crack at O’Grady is not exactly populist, when so many people are still buying his book, apologizing for him, and for others like him. my stance on doping and on the history of it all is quite clear, backed up here in dozens of articles.

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  8. chest chestermeister Avatar
    chest chestermeister
    March 1, 2014

    Ill buy the book. Im interested in the story, even though its very negative for cycling. Everyone is so high and mighty, if anyone of us was a pro in the 90s we’d all be doping, come on guys get off your high horses.

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  9. Eddie Riquelme Avatar
    Eddie Riquelme
    March 1, 2014

    I’d buy the book – at a huge discount of course – simply to learn more about the rampant cheating during the Armstrong era. This guy (O ‘Grady) has a unique vantage point from which others may gain a perspective.

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  10. touristeroutier Avatar
    touristeroutier
    March 1, 2014

    Son of Sam Law; fine. But in the US at least, doping isn’t a crime. As reprehensible as the act may be, it isn’t illegal, and the law isn’t applicable.

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  11. Don Avatar
    Don
    March 1, 2014

    Sorry CP, and while I enjoy your stuff, James hit it above and your bunny hop follow-up proved him out. Naive. You’re posing with EM for what it draws to you. I’ll buy Grady’s book for either my devilish interest in an era of sport that interests me or not…certainly not influenced by your moral railing not to buy this book because it profits the author. If we didn’t buy books for someones objection hardly a book on this planet regardless of subject would see its spine cracked. I buy for my interest and not as vote of conscious or a worry of enriching a “confessor”. Remember, we’re feeling creatures that think not thinking creatures that feel. And I’ll offer; better not to tell me how to behave e.g. “Don’t buy this book”…rather have trust in telling me why you are not buying the book. I find that works better when helping others understand my conclusions. All that said, keep on writing CP…I’ll be reading.

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  12. 53x11 (@53x11) Avatar
    53x11 (@53x11)
    March 3, 2014

    Also don’t buy his book because it’s a load of bullshit. You don’t dope “only once” in 1998. Then later have the best results of your career while “clean” in an era where the rest of the top end of the field was juiced. I’d buy it if he told the truth. Lot’s of alternative great works of fiction for sale out there.

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