tyler

wow - big news for Tyler today. Looks like there's no escaping the USADA decision on his 2 year suspension. He's now sanctioned until the '07 season from the UCI. His professional cycling career is over. Here's the official write up.

A local doctor here has been testifying in court on behalf of Tyler. Here's the deal - Tyler has a mixed blood cell population that occurs naturally in his blood. The test is too hyper sensitive so it picked up on this. He had such a low amount of mixed blood cell population that it would be the equivalent of 100cc injection every couple of weeks. Which is to say - not much. For an athlete to have any sort of positive effect from blood doping more than 10% of red blood cells have to be effected. Tylers was more like .7%. Weird and it sucks. Shitty deal. Sorry Tyler.

It was a good day today. Heck, it was a 2 Maverick day and fun projects abounded. We wrapped up the day with beers all around at close. Much was consumed before we all had to return to our honey do's. It'll be a while before Greg can use the "going to take recycling" excuse again! Thanks for the beers, though! On to Sunday, now and I'm glad this hectic week is over. Arn was stoked with the new Flux, Jason's new Dean Super Vador is about one of the baddest assed road bikes ever, and Karl's front end remodel turned out great.

Another beer, please!

See you all on the trails,
redstone