Hows about going after some of the guys still riding and doping?

Seems particularly pointless wasting time chasing after Jan for alleged crimes of the past when there are crimes being committed now.

Hopefully if a rider gets punished for doping whether they are currently racing or retired it should act as a deterrent to current riders who don't dope. The thought that you could be caught and imprisoned at any point in your life should put riders off.

If Jan Ullrich doped then they need to throw the book at him. Jan Ullrich has become a multi-millionaire through winning cycle races. If he is not punished just because he has retired then that sends out the message that doping as a career move is Ok as long as we don't find out until after you have retired. Therefore riders will have no problem taking new drugs to improve performance as there won't be any tests for them yet, and when there are tests they will have retired and it won't matter.

In my reckoning the first 'clean' rider over the line in the 1997 Tour that Jan won was Roberto Conti - He finished 10th! If Jan did dope I hope Conti sues him for millions through loss of earnings that would have come from winning a Grand Tour.

Society needs to gain some consistency with regards to crime, across the board and on a global scale. It’s about time we have international laws that are upheld and enforced with ferocity and diligence and I do not think we should be starting with cycling. Sure lets get to that when we have dealt with the other problems first.

Lets start with the wars and killings in Dafur, the middle East and Asia, get slave labour, child prostitution and sex trade sorted and somewhere along, way down the line go after retired cyclist, coz once you go after Jan then they need to look into Riis, Hinault, Merx etc.

How about chasing Lance Armstrong instead of hounding Jan Ullrich. I have never heard of him being taken but Armstrong has had plenty positive epo tests.

'gunderson', did you even bother to read the article...? Your quote:

"I have never heard of him being taken "

"Ullrich was linked to the Operation Puerto scandal in 2006 after samples of his blood were found during a police raid on Spanish doctor Eufemiano Fuentes who was at the centre of a doping ring"

Where are the "plenty positive epo tests" that you refer to in Armstrong's case Sparky?

Can of worms alert.

Discussing doping is fine, as long as you don't mention LA.

Hinault, Mercx, not problem, but not his highness :)

Lance is the most widely tested athlet in the world. He until this point has not been caught. He either is clean or has the most sophisticated doping program EVER.

Leave Jan alone. Chase the dopers now!!!