One of the cycling’s big stories in 2007 was of Dannish rider Michael Rasmussen being thrown out by his Dutch team Rabobank while leading the Tour de France.
Rasmussen was said to have lied to Rabobank regarding his whereabouts in June last year, when UCI and Danish Cycling Federation officials had been unable to locate the rider for out-of-competition doping tests. Team officials learned that when Rasmussen had said he was in Mexico – where his wife lives – he had actually been in Italy.
Rasmussen, already 10 days in the yellow jersey when he was ejected from cycling’s premiere road race and poised for an eventual victory in Paris, has earlier been kicked out of the Danish national team by the Danish Cycling Federation.
It seems that story is still the subject of some laughs in Holland, as this Dutch commercial uploaded on YouTube shows.
Translation dutch-english:
- Dutch team manager sees ‘Tour de France Controle’ on his mobile phone screen
- He gets out of his car ans shouts ‘controle , eruit jullie’( A check, get out you all!)
- The Mexicans get out and the manager shouts ’spelen!’ (‘Play!”)
- The Mexicans start to play and the Team Rabo cyclist says : “Hello, yes I am still in Mexico’
Followng text: ‘We know all about it, do you?
You read all about it in the tour guide”.
Uploaded by www.pellenaars.eu
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