Off topic, but... noticed your screen name. Do you know when the next season of South Park starts on Comedy Central? ;-)
I think the new season starts on Sept 16th. Let’s hope it’s a good one. The last few seasons have been a bit stale.
As far as the Frank suspension, I recall it but am pretty sure it was for a diuretic that even the agency who suspended him had said he accidently ingested. His biological passport and hair samples were both clean of any PED’s and around the time that he tested positive, it was in the midst of the whole Armstrong/Bruyneel doping scandal. As a result Bruyneel did not attend the 2012 tour and I’m inclined to believe that due to the scrutiny the team was under, Frank was most likely telling the truth in that instance.
I’m not so sure about the whole $10,000 transfer a few years earlier to a doctor who was busted in the Puerto sting (I think his name was Fuentes). Although Frank was later cleared, it just seems like too much of a smoking gun for me to believe that he was not doping. Although I hate to lump Andy in with his brother, given the closeness of the two in their careers and ambitions, it does not take much of a stretch of the imagination to arrive at the conclusion they were probably doing the same thing.
Finally, while Contator may be an arrogant, unethical schmuck, perhaps his one saving grace is that at least he looks like he belongs on a bike. Chris Froome has an almost unwatchable painful form and if my girl friend had taken a drink every time I shouted “Quit looking at your stem!” over the past three weeks, I would have to check her into the Betty Ford Clinic. It’s like he’s a giant praying mantis that has mistaken a bicycle for a prospective mate.
/froomerant