Tour de France - starts 1st July

[Tulenos]

Originally Posted by Foolsgold

With Landis failing his drug test, I've lost what little faith I had in the honesty of this sport.

Betfair should void all bet's on Landis, I've lost money here and feel I've been cheated. It's not right

Sadly, fools, there is no way they would reverse the settlement - if you read the rules, you will have to agree - I have just translated a lot of rules and stuff for their Czech version and they always claim the bets are settled on the actual podium positions and standings as confimed by a ruling body - just after the race/tournament etc. - further changes will not be reflected at all. Might be you should have covered the bet by betting back at the enormous prices. Although I wonder why it took so long to proceed with the drug test when it was obvious after he collapsed in one stage and suddenly ran away with it just some hours after the collapse - probably they should have pushed the guys to proceed with the test as quickly as they could.

It's a shame though and I myself can't see a way out of the dark in this sport, you just can't get even a drug free stage in cycling atm, ffs - wonder what the sponsors (esp. Skoda)and TV companies (Eurosport) will say.

[maj69er]

Originally Posted by Tulenos

Sadly, fools, there is no way they would reverse the settlement - if you read the rules, you will have to agree - I have just translated a lot of rules and stuff for their Czech version and they always claim the bets are settled on the actual podium positions and standings as confimed by a ruling body - just after the race/tournament etc. - further changes will not be reflected at all. Might be you should have covered the bet by betting back at the enormous prices. Although I wonder why it took so long to proceed with the drug test when it was obvious after he collapsed in one stage and suddenly ran away with it just some hours after the collapse - probably they should have pushed the guys to proceed with the test as quickly as they could.

It's a shame though and I myself can't see a way out of the dark in this sport, you just can't get even a drug free stage in cycling atm, ffs - wonder what the sponsors (esp. Skoda)and TV companies (Eurosport) will say.

The UCI's drug policy totally sucks. All theses peopl,ecare about are sponsors....Sponsors want to see big names even if theya re pumped with drugs...NO offence to anybody who backed Oscar Pineiro but damn that aint a superstar name is it LOL