Newsgroup: it.sport.ciclismo
Titolo: Il padre di Frigo alla Gazzetta

http://www.procycling.com/news.aspx?ID=1456
Frigo's father: I lost Dario to doping
18/07/2005
Rosello Frigo, the father of Tour de France outcast Dario, fears that 
his son could go the same way as Marco Pantani or Frank Vandenboucke. As 
he told La Gazzetta dello Sport.
The father of Dario Frigo has opened his heart to La Gazzetta dello 
Sport about how doping changed his son into a ghostlike figure with whom 
he “has had no contact for five years.”
In a sensational interview, Rosello Frigo revealed his fears about his 
son’s wellbeing almost a week after the Fassa Bortolo rider and his wife 
were placed under formal investigation for “assisting the use of doping 
products and contraband”. Frigo’s wife Susanna was arrested last Monday 
after police near Albertville in the French Alps found vials suspected 
to contain EPO in the boot of her car. Frigo was rounded up the two days 
later, hours before he was due to compete in the second mountain stage 
of the Tour from Courchevel to Briançon.
Although Frigo is rumoured to be “in hiding” on the French Riviera - in 
accordance with the terms of his release on bail on Wednesday - his 
father doesn’t know his exact whereabouts. “I don’t know where he is, 
what he’s doing, with who…But he’s my son and he’s in need at the 
moment. I don’t know why our relationship broke down. The day after his 
wedding, after the reception, we went home. From that moment on, it was 
total darkness.”
“Dario has a very weak, fragile character,” Frigo senior continued. “I’m 
afraid. I fear that the worst is still to come because cycling is his 
life. Jimenez, Pantani, Vandenbroucke: these are the most tragic 
examples, but how many riders have problems with depression? Do you know 
about the side-effects of human growth hormone? I think that the drugs 
Dario took contributed significantly to changing him.
“Susanna, his wife, knew that Dario was taking this filth. Why did she 
help him? Why did she act as his accomplice? Because she’s so 
impressionable that she should almost be locked up.”
In contrast, Giancarlo Ferretti, the Fassa Bortolo team boss who branded 
Frigo a “villain” on his arrest last week, deserves disgust, not pity, 
said Rosello. Ferretti claimed on Wednesday that he had recently asked 
the UCI for authorisation to cut Frigo’s salary “to try to distance him 
from the team.” Authorisation which had been refused.
Rosello’s reaction: “I’d like to speak to Giancarlo Ferretti, look him 
in the eyes. Just him and me or, if he prefers, with witnesses. I want 
to ask him if he knows the meaning of the words he used. My son has made 
a mistake, but he isn’t a villain […] If he knew something about Dario, 
why didn’t he say so? Maybe my son was a useful guy to have around. Why 
did he re-sign him after he was caught in 2001? Did he have a debt of 
gratitude to repay because Dario had covered up for some bigger names?”
Earlier, Rosello had spoken of his own love of cycling, which Dario 
inherited – “the one regret in my life,” according to Rosello. Passion 
quickly became an unhealthy obsession, this time inherited from a sport 
forever striving higher, faster and further. Rosello recalled one 
occasion when his exhausted son pulled out of the Coppa d’Oro amateur 
race and was forced by his team manager to climb the feared Roncola pass 
twice as punishment at 10 o’ clock at night. “I have reason to believe 
that that was when he first discovered doping,” Rosello Frigo told La 
Gazzetta.
Later, when Frigo turned pro’ with the Mercatone Uno-Saeco team in 1995, 
he was all but ridiculed when he announced that his doctor was a local 
GP. “They said: ‘Go where we tell you, because you can’t fight a war 
with water pistols’,” Rosello said.
“I said to him that I was firmly against doping. In reply, he said that 
us fans were very good at applauding the winner. The first time he went 
to the Tour, he begged me to bring him drugs. My wife was furious...
“When you start to dope, you buy yourself a one-way ticket[…] It’s been 
proven that some of the most atrocious illness can be caused by doping. 
Write it in big letters: ‘Boys, stop this! Appreciate the value of your 
health and stop playing at hurting yourselves’.
“Cycling was the first sport to introduce serious dope-testing but now 
the tests are a farce. You only have to look at the average speeds, how 
they climb mountains. No, ladies and gentlemen, it’s impossible to go 
that fast. And how can you explain why these boys are always ill? One 
virus after another, glandular fevers…
He continued: “Dario has made mistakes and it’s right that he should 
pay. But he isn’t the only guilty party. I don’t want to hear any more 
talk of riders who are whiter than white on the TV. It’d be better if 
they said nothing. I’ve had enough of hypocrisy. I used to watch races 
on the TV for news of my son. Now I won’t even have that. I’ll know 
nothing about him any more. I have a wonderful wife and daughter. 
Otherwise I’d take a pistol to my head out of shame. But everyone should 
be ashamed – everyone who’s complicit with this system.”
Signor Frigo launched one final plea: “Please help us to find Dario. We 
aren’t monsters. We are honest, respectable people and we’re not 
ignorant either. Dario, I want to speak to you. Alone, or if you want 
with your mum and your sister. Tell me where I went wrong.”
-- 
Gandhi: "Vivi come se dovessi morire domani. Impara come se dovessi 
vivere per sempre."

 Rispondo in italiano...ho letto l'articolo di sabato del padre di
Frigo....molto toccante devo dire!!!
Condivido al 100% quello che dice!
Qualche persona (vedi Ferretti) dovrebbe vergognarsi di quello che dice
altrui....mi piacerebbe un faccia a faccia e vedere come replica...la realtà
è che i team sanno benissimo come gira l'ingranaggio e fintanto che fanno
comodo tacciono mentre quando succede qualcosa prendono le distanze....e
così ci rimette sempre il singolo.
Quanto mi piacerebbe che Frigo svuotasse il sacco.....ma è molto pericoloso!
E' come la mafia chia sà tace per paura.
Uno dei pochi che contava e che si è ribellato....giace 3 mt sotto
terra...pace all'anima sua!
 E' ORA DI FINIRLA CON QUESTA FARSA!!!!
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Mamo
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 pericoloso! E' come la mafia chia sà tace per paura.
Italiano!
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...ok hai fatto la battuta...:-|
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 ...ok hai fatto la battuta...:-|
che sia un prof di lettere fallito che cerca il riscatto sui NG?

 terra...pace all'anima sua!
Diciamo le cose come stanno.
In fondo non si è ribellato, è stato un pò triturato.
E' un pò diverso.
Pace all'anima sua, in ogni caso.

 Pace all'anima sua, in ogni caso.
Quoto
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www.caccolestellari.com

 Pace all'anima sua, in ogni caso.
Ma io direi che sono due casi per nulla confrontabili.
A Frigo hanno trovato la moglie che gli stava portando un cassone di
farmaci dopanti.
Pantani l'hanno trovato con un presunto ematocrito alto (dico presunto
perché da subito vi sono stati dubbi e riscontrate anomalie nel
prelievo, ma non voglio rivangare discussioni sulle quali già s'è detto
tutto e il contrario di tutto), mentre non è *mai* stato trovato
positivo al doping, né gli sono mai stati trovati farmaci proibiti, né
siringhe, flebo o altro, che invece erano state trovate a ciclisti mai
neppure sospettati.
Mi sembra una differenza non trascurabile. Pantani è stato massacrato
per il nulla; Frigo, se verrà massacrato (gli auguro di no), lo sarà per
una valigia di farmaci dopanti.
Scusate se è la stessa cosa eh...
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Massimo Bacilieri AKA Crononauta 
ICQ:4005815

> Ma io direi che sono due casi per nulla confrontabili.
certo, sono daccordo,
ma dovevi rispondere a mamo, no? 

 ha scritto nel messaggio 
news:slrnddn8s0....@cerbero.3rd-ring...
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Quoto 

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Sì, chiedo scusa, mi sono accodato alle risposte al thread, anziché al
messaggio originario cui rispondere.
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Analisi giustissima e dovuta...è vero che il caso non è paragonabile,ma non
era questo il messaggio che volevo esternare.
Quello che voglio ribadire è che all'interno della macchina "ciclismo" tutti
sanno tutto...è non è giusto che ci sia qualcuno come Ferretti che si lava
la bocca!!!
leggesi cosa dice il padre ai fatti relativi a due o tre anni fà quando fu
beccato!
Dopo quello che era successo a Frigo come mai Ferretti se lo è ripreso?
Frigo si è scarificato per proteggere qualcuno?
Allora se tutto quello detto dal padre fosse vero....sai che bella sorpresa
se il Frigo corridore svuotasse il sacco!
Questo il senso!
x manomano scusa eventualieui erroreui die grammaticua!
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Mamo
Scusate eventuali errori di grammatica ecc...(x manomano)
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 x manomano scusa eventualieui erroreui die grammaticua!
Cuome va l'ernoa?
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 Cuome va l'ernoa?
insommua, stuò in pieudi e posso anduare ancke in biciui...il tutto con
attenzioune.
;-)
tnx
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Mamo
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