[Rec_bike] The 2003 TdF winner is Will Oren and Doug K.!!!! Congratulations Will and Doug!!

[Mathew Wright]

Will,
You could always start riding with the group again to regain your honor.
One "T" Mat

On 9/21/2012 9:21 AM, Will Oren wrote:
> Wow, a blast from the past but now everyone will know I was taking 
> steroids for my back problems.    It'll get trotted through the 
> courts, I'll vehemently deny it until someone digs through the 
> landfill and finds the spent bubble packs from my garbage.   Then I'll 
> have to return the Golden Sprocket Award that sits proudly on my shelf 
> and bend my head in shame whenever the noon crowd comes cycling by.  
> Such is fame!!
>
> Good memories, wish the body was still as willing.    Thanks for 
> digging these out Arne!
>
> Will
>
>
> On 9/20/2012 5:25 PM, Arne Freyberger wrote:
>> Fellow Bikers,
>>     I've been recently contact by leTour officials about the 2001, 
>> 2002 and 2003 Kiln Creek Sprint series.  Since Armstrong has given up 
>> defending and has been stripped of his titles, the tour organization 
>> went through the entire  competitor list and could not find a clean 
>> athlete to declare the official victor.   They then search *all *the 
>> cycling competitions in 2001 through 2003 and again could not a clean 
>> rider.   That is until someone mentioned to them about an obscure 
>> sprint series held in Newport News Va.    TdF Race director Christian 
>> Prudhome contacted me  a few weeks ago to verify the integrity of the 
>> our series and the results.   It took a while to dig out these old 
>> archives (Thanks Matt!) and deliver the statistics to Christian.
>>
>>   * http://wwwold.jlab.org/ccc-old/mail_archives/RECREATION/rec_bike/msg00564.html
>>   * http://wwwold.jlab.org/ccc-old/mail_archives/RECREATION/rec_bike/msg00282.html
>>   * http://wwwold.jlab.org/ccc-old/mail_archives/RECREATION/rec_bike/msg00075.html
>>
>>
>> I had to fabricate some clean urine samples, but that was easily 
>> done.   Although our modest sprint series didn't quite match up to 
>> the scale of the Tour de France he felt that our commitment to clean 
>> cycling should not go unnoticed.      Christian is a little 
>> embarrassed by the whole doping culture and so you might not hear 
>> about this in the news.   Nevertheless he assured me that our own 
>> Will Oren and formally our own Doug Kieper will be declared the 
>> victors of the 2003, 2002 and 2001 Tour de France.  Let me be the 
>> first to congratulate them on this honor!!!   All Hail our formal 
>> Sprint Kings and the new TdF champions!!!!
>>
>> Cheers!
>> Arne
>>
>>
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