Deplorable Conditions.

So many cycling fans around the world are getting up to ride their bikes today and to check out the latest in the news about cycling trying to find something good to improve their mood and to take their minds off the stresses in their work and what do they read? More about doping in cycling. Many are saying just get over it, everyone dopes let me just enjoy my sport, and many are saying this is b.s. I am tired of cycling and things need to change!

What is really going on? Well the truth of what is really going on is getting through on a very limited basis. You have those on the outside telling everyone that nothing is changing and you have the feel gooders telling you everything is improving. Ask yourself, “If we could trust the cycling media, wouldn’t From Lance to Landis be sold on VeloNews?” No it can’t be sold there because we are being manipulated by the system. I spoke to VeloNews and they said that they were scared of getting sued.

So now we have a system that is controlled by dishonest rich dopers with powerful lawyers who will do everything to stay in power and they will sell everyone out, and it doesn’t matter of the next generation fall to the wayside in either their anti-doping education or protection!

Go ahead people and blame the next doping positive on that man who wants to keep you down. That man is Lance Armstrong, and let’s not forget Tomas Weisel the owner of USA Cycling who are basically one.

These are the ones who are doping, covering up doping, or know it exists and their only purpose in life is to keep the system going, financially productive, and to stay in power. They will do anything to remain on top, and they will do everything including making sure you are fired or homeless to be on top.

Lance Armstrong told Prentice Steffen that he was going to take his house and take down Vaughters’ team if he didn’t retract his statements for Christ’s sake! Prentice Steffen didn’t write a word of his retraction statement. Dr. Steffen was correct, the USPS was supporting the use of EPO and the firing of him is proof. The American public was manipulated by the corrupt persons, LANCE ARMSTRONG and MARK GORSKI.

The same man who fired him Mark Gorski was a member of the 1984 Olympic Team that was blood doping, and he fired a man who was against blood doping. Do the math, and if Mark Gorski didn’t support doping, why would he testify on behalf of Adham Sbeih who tested positive for the use of EPO?

And yet the cycling base will smile in the face of Gorski and sport the USPS jersey or Discovery jersey with pride. WAKE UP!!! Can you hear me?

The problem is the underlying reoccurring nightmare stems from the evil and corruption in humanity and those who will do anything for success. These are the same people who are doping and the same people who eventually come into power to tell you the system is improving.

Wake up America! Look at the situation with Rock Racing! Here you have Frankie Andreu who was fired by Toyota United after he testified against Lance Armstrong in the SCA Promotions Trial. Did you know that Sean Tucker who runs the Toyota United Pro Cycling Team has ties in the past with Armstrong? From 1994-1995 while racing as a professional cyclist, Tucker served as President of MG Sports Marketing, where he created and implemented various sports marketing programs for companies. In addition, he secured sponsorship deals and speaking engagements for a variety of athletes, including Indy car champion Scott Pruett and then newly-crowned world road cycling champion Lance Armstrong.

And you wonder why Frankie got fired while trying to clean up cycling?????!!!!!!!!!

So Frankie battles back and continues to oppose doping and joins Rock Racing only to be undercut again by another sponsor who is sympathetic to doping.

Michael Ball has knowing allowed Kayle Leogrande to continue racing even after failing an EPO test and after his rider admitted to the use of EPO to members of his team.

Rock Racing is secretly supporting doping period. So moving on to Toyota United, who also has doping riders on their team, as one rider has admitted to me in person that he is, “No angel and that he will be doing whatever he has to do in 2008.” So scratch off Toyota United for being some kind of model program against doping. They are part of the problem, just as many other pro teams are even though that is not what they tell you in the media.

Moving on to Kelly Benefit Systems and Slipstream, yes you have 2 clean programs or teams that are trying to be clean, yet they will not hire me, a rider who is obviously more than qualified to race as a pro cyclist either because of an anti-doping website as in the case of KBS or because I have been out of the sport for too long. Please keep in mind I asked to be tested in a lab and if my numbers couldn’t beat riders on the team, I wouldn’t ask to be added. Still I got no response and I am sidelined, unable to race to help clean up the sport.

Is my non-hiring to Slipstream because I didn’t get along with riders in the past in the media such as David Zabriskie who was quoted in the Salt Lake Tribune Article that I was part of a group who were “Bitter Crackpots”, yet lets not forget after David bashed us in the media, his friend and training partner Floyd Landis tested positive and David’s teammate Ivan Basso were pulled from the Tour de France.

Or am I not riding because Christian Vandevelde doesn’t want me there who told me on the national team that I shouldn’t be talking about doping way back in 1997 when I was trying to write for USA Cycling about the doping that was happening on my team in Italy? Or maybe that Christian feels uncomfortable because in the past he told me that everything I witnessed in Italy was spot on and that he was going to see if riders were dying from the doping to make his decision. Christian is a part of that 1999 Tour de France team that we saw Frankie Andreu admit to using EPO because he couldn’t keep up and the same 1999 tour where Armstrong’s “B” samples still came up POSITIVE.

Then you have Tom Danielson on the team who basically came out of nowhere to dominate the racing scene from a struggling mountain bike racer to a grand tour rider with the help of Rick Crawford, a coach who has admitted to having his riders use blood spinners in the past in a heated email confrontation claiming, “Is that all you got?” When David Clinger told me in confidence that Crawford had asked him to purchase blood spinners to be used in conjunction with doping.

But still Tom is moving onto an anti-doping team to prove that he doesn’t want to dope and wants to prove that he is clean, now pointing the finger to Johan Bruneel, and saying to me at Interbike, “That is the guy you have to go after.” Bravo Danielson for telling us where to go but we already knew that.

Too bad Trek Bicycles which who hasn’t purchased one, is the first to jump on board to sponsor a team wrapped in doping controversy in the past with Vino testing positive for blood transfusions and Astana constantly turning a blind eye to keep doping riders on their team and competing.

But should we trust that Trek Bikes has the best intentions for the sport of cycling? Not when secretly recorded conversations involving Greg Lemond surface with Oakley Rep Stephanie McIlvain talking about Armstrong admitting to using 5 performance-enhancing drugs in the hospital room to hear about the phone calls Greg received when he made comments in the media about Lance Armstrong and him working with a doctor who was later found guilty of teaching riders how to use EPO. Yes that man is Dr. Ferrari, and Trek Bikes might as well sponsor him too. He would be a good guy to have on that bike, after he got out of jail for teaching riders to use EPO.

Was Greg wrong then? No, and he isn’t wrong now. Yet, everyone jumps on the Armstrong 7 tour band wagon and blindly supports a man, whose own cancer growth could have been caused by doping and accelerated by the use of EPO as new medical documents are proving. How quick everyone forgets the true tour champion? Or how quickly everyone lumps Lemond in with the rest of the dopers. Do you not know that Lemond had a VO2 max of over 90? Even Aerospace Engineering was quick to tell me that Lemond was a doper, and that the manager had Armstrong’s and Bruneel’s phone number in his phone.

DO I CARE?

Greg Lemond can’t sponsor me, because of a bind that he could lose his bicycle company because Trek doesn’t want anyone to talk bad about Armstrong because he sells a lot of bikes. Well stop buying the bikes people, because ultimately are the ones to blame for the sport being destroyed because now you know.

The industry is run by people who support doping period. The cycling fans are blinded by the industry and support doping by default. The anti-dopers are kicked out of the sport, and the sport stays filled with doping. The next generation grows up and gets an education behind the scenes that if you want to be a pro rider you must dope. Do you really think that the Olympic Training Center is teaching athletes to avoid doping? Do you really think their is really an anti-doping educational system in place now? HELL NO THERE ISN’T.

The USOC knows what is going on and in the past they have supported doping proven to us by Dr. Exum, who has gone against everyone including Travis Tygart believe it or not who once protected the lies told by the United States Olympic Committee.

SO DO YOU REALLY FEEL SAFE WITH USADA KNOWING THAT?

If you think things are changing guess again. Nothing is changing and nothing will until you see changes.

We need to see that USA Cycling is admitting their faults of the past and pulls Eddie B [who told a member of the SU team when asked if he is the father of blood doping in America, “Yes, I am” a week ago at a track in California], out of the U.S. Bicycling Hall of Fame.

Let’s see a public apology from USA Cycling for doping riders Erik Kaiter and Greg Strock instead of paying them off behind our backs to the sum of $250,000 each.

Not to mention offering letters of recommendation to Rene Wenzel who was one of the coaches giving the riders injections, and continuing to promote Chris Carmichael’s training program to every new rider to the sport when USA Cycling knows that Chris was a coach who injected Greg Strock with a substance he called, “An Extract of Cortisone.”

Until the truth comes out and Armstrong and the rest fall to disgrace and the true heroes of the sport such as Lemond are allowed to speak freely about doping and what it takes to win the Tour de France clean, and riders like me are continued to be forced to the sidelines either by doping pro teams, or anti-doping pro teams with no courage, nothing will change.

As I said before the sport is suffering from Deplorable Conditions and I want to see a change. When is it going to happen, and who is going to lead the way? I certainly have tried but have failed so who is next to come forward and to make sacrifices for the sport?

We need to hold accountable everyone who supports doping.

We need to boycott their products.

We need to demand change.

We need to demand that truths including that of USADA and their history be made in a public statement. We need to demand that Tammy Thomas be allowed to be able to speak in truth of what she was allowed to do by USA Cycling, as well as all athletes who choose to come clean to receive amnesty.

Unless we do these things above, then we all might just might as well quit racing our bike forever. I am certainly on my last wind and am reaching my breaking point.

Ask yourself are you going to stand up to the system as an educated person and say, “I see what is happening and it needs to stop!” Or are you just going to continue to complain and watch for the rest of your life the same headlines on VeloNews forever, “So and so tests positive and claims that the labs are corrupt and faulty, and that the world is on a witch hunt against him?”

Chances are, this email will never make it past an inbox and the reason for that is because the system has control over you.

Lil’MATT
STOLEN UNDERGROUND
www.su13.us
“We Ain’t Rookies, We Veterans Main.”

P.s.
Anyone who says I am a bitter crack pot, or wants to oppose one thing in this release as not accurate I will challenge them to a lie detector test, and will happily see them in court. I will testify under oath and bring all parties to the table to prove I am correct and that I am not lying about one thing. I am 100% accurate and what you have read is the truest thing you have ever read.

Wow, does this guy need some media training.

It's a shame. I pretty much believe most everything he's written here (hello, Mr. Armstrong! my, what effective software agents you've got!), but his message is so ineffectively delivered that he damages his cause and case by laying it out in the manner he does.

Not that I blame him. He's kind of like the anti-Chicken Little. Instead of shouting that the sky is falling while it isn't, he's shouting that the sky is falling while everybody else pulls it down.

He could be much more effective (and possibly employed) if he had more polish and political tact.

After the Sierra-Nevada mess, no one will ever touch him again, and it's his own damn fault.

Please forgive my ignorance on this...but what happened w/ K-SN and this guy?

...just rings of a *bit* of hypocrisy, too.

Cowboy -- the only controversy you cite was over the lack of advertisement in VN? Understated, or what?

Dave.

what a whiner.

what a whiner.

what a whiner.

Nah, Lance, Floyd, Roberto, and Tyler are whiners. This guy's entertaining. Might or might not be right, but entertaining nonetheless.

DeCanio is a nutter. Nuff said.

Crazy like a... Gaumont?

Millar told Thursday's edition of the Manchester Guardian that he regarded Gaumont as unstable.

"It's clear to me," Millar said. "There are three or four people in the team who have been complete idiots, but if you go into any work-place environment you will find three or four people who do stupid things, take risks.

"It's scary how a few idiots can put everyone's jobs in danger."

"He's (Gaumont) a nutter, but what's dangerous is that he's very gifted at manipulating people; at the moment he seems to be manipulating the judge, the police and the press," Millar said "He's behaving like an absolute lunatic. It's guerilla warfare against the team."

So I looked at the Stolen Underground site yesterday and saw that DeCanio has now recanted everything he said about Toyota United (I think). Anyway, you can read it for yourself here.

It's not like Toyota United would verify anything DeCanio said. What weight should be given to their denials?

They got rid of Andreu for not devoting enough time to the team but then hired a pre-med student in his place? Something does not smell right.

I guess the questions would be...did DeCanio give Tucker the name of the rider he spoke with (and what did Tucker have to say about that) and did DeCanio get any kind of sponsorship from TU. As I posted in my edit above (after you posted, Bros), Tucker does seem a little naive in the interviews I linked to.

So I looked at the Stolen Underground site yesterday and saw that DeCanio has now recanted everything he said about Toyota United (I think). Anyway, you can read it for yourself here.

Seems TU's Sean Tucker got in touch with Matt and let him know that Frankie didn't get fired for testifying against Lance, and that TU is committed to clean cycling. DeCanio also recants that a Toyota rider implied that he (the Toyota rider) would be doping this year in a conversation between the two.

DeCanio now says that:

Sean Tucker has explained to us that he is an anti-doping manager and was an anti-doping professional racer with intentions of running a clean program.

"I have relationship now with Toyota United and I want to relay this to all racers looking for jobs as pro cyclists on Toyota United. Doping will not be tolerated on this team at all. If you dope or intend to dope on Toyota United you will be fired immediately. Sean Tucker hates doping just as much as I do."-Lil'MATT
EDIT: If you'd like to read Sean Tucker's thoughts about doping, here are a couple good interviews. One is from the DP and the other is by our buddy, Cyclingheroes. Tucker is very anti-doping, but he sounds rather naive to me:

http://www.dailypeloton.com/displayarticle.asp?pk=11802

http://www.cyclingheroes.info/id713.html

6 Years of Oppression Ended by the French
Fired, sued, blacklisted, threatened, and kicked out of USA.
Nearly 6 years ago Matt DeCanio shocked the American cycling community with admitting he had used performance-enhancing drugs, and then shocked them even more by posting articles about the corrupt system of pro cycling. Unfortunately for Matt, the Lance Armstrong ruled system of pro cycling quickly cast Matt off as being well....uneducated, jealous, and bitter. However, the most important people and good people in cycling understood and respected Matt including America's first ever Tour de France Champion Greg Lemond, and former United States Olympic Committee Drug Tzar Dr. Wade Exum. In America there were just not enough good people to bring Matt back into the sport and to provide Matt with the kind of support he needed to return to competitive racing. Now with the help of the French, he has just that. At 32 years of age, Matt is getting up there in age, however his heart and determination to finish what he started as a member of the USA Cycling Team and to race the Tour de France is all that matters to him now. Follow Matt "Le Rockafella Uno Tre Version 3.0XL" DeCanio has he moves to Paris, France with a goal to turn professional for a French Pro Team, compete in the Olympics for the French, and to race the Tour de France.


Message from Le Rockafella Uno Tre
Straight from the horses mouth...
I want to thank all of my supporters I have had over the years and everyone who has contributed to my website through donations, buying uniforms, and standing up for me on message boards around the world. Last year at this time in Culpeper, Virginia I was asked to leave a 9 month project where I created a Stolen Underground Extreme store and Fighting Corruption Cycling Team. The real reason was because they didn't want to stand up to the system. I almost quit and I was on the edge of insanity which is funny because that was the name of the band that played during the opening V.I.P. night. I moved back down to Miami, regrouped, controlled my anger, sorted out the emails from the haters now at the Bike Stop who were kicking me when I was down, had to sell my $10,000 Lemond bike which was a personal gift from Greg Lemond to me, and I worked as a barback in Miami, Florida washing dishes, taking out the trash, and picking up cigarette buds in the gravel outside. Meanwhile during the month of July the Tour De France was playing on all of our flat screen tv's and I was looking at riders who had said I was a bitter crackpot racing on tv, when in fact all I did was to tell the truth. I used a connection made through Travis Enmon and reached out to my new friend Julien who was visiting Miami Beach. I told Julien I wanted to return to racing and I told him if he finds me a team, "I WILL RIDE THE TOUR DE FRANCE." 6 months later he found me OCVO and I am now back in the drivers seat of my life and I have the full support of the French and the French Media who have already reached out to me.

When you fight something so long, and you feel you don't make an impact you want to quit. During my fight the extreme highs and lows have included meeting my idols, driving an H2 Hummer with Fighting Corruption stickers on it like a true rebel, meeting one of the most beautiful girls I have ever met Heather, falling in love with the most beautiful girl, making the realist and best friends of my life, seeing the real side of life by working blue collar jobs instead of being a prima donna professional with an ego, I mean really connecting to people who have had hardships and have also been vicitms of injustice, and all of these things have probably been more meaningful to me than anything.

The bad things have included being fired, sued, threatened, slandered, back stabbed, and treated as a second class citizen by the system who would have happily left me for dead if they could have.

Moving forward I did not want to discuss doping anymore, because I just was tired of my story. However, I have been given many signs that I need to tell my story once again to the French and to tell them the truth of what I went through regardless of the outcome and without fear.

Now I want to tell you about the recent enlightenment I had about doping in sports. Previously, I believed that doping was wrong and if you did it, you were a bad person.

Today I finally solved the problem, and the real universal energy to flow of the universe and how to be successful in the sport and in the world, and actually what is the correct answer in my soul.

Doping is always wrong. Nobody wants to dope, even the dopers because it is either dangerous, harmful to your health, expensive, untruthful, and/or risky. So at the end of the day dopers themselves do not like the act of doping.

Dopers dope stictly to win and to survive in this world of pro sports as doping continues to flurish.

Now in a perfect society there would be no doping. But until either our money systems change like the concept of the Venus Project, or we have a mental evolution of humanity doping will continue and it is a part of life and sports.

It is at this crucial moment where most athletes decide to dope or not to dope in their career. The do not dwell on the issue anymore.
This next point is what I want to really be the focus of my message when I return to professional racing.

When you dope you are either a "GOOD" doper or an "EVIL" doper.

Good dopers, dope but when they are caught they do not fight the anti-doping entities.

Evil dopers, dope but when they are caught they fight the anti-doping entities.

This is the crucial error that most dopers make such as Lance Armstrong or Landis for example.

They do the wrong thing by doping (but it is the way of the world) so it is borderline acceptable, but what is wrong is when they attack the very people who are trying to better the world, and humanity by eliminating doping as a whole.

When a doper does this, he may survive for a little as a champion but history is proving that the EVIL dopers NEVER get away with it, and I predict Lance Armstrong who has forced retarction statements, threatened riders like Simeoni, and Lemond and who has gone out of his way to slander / humilate / remove any GOOD anti-doping entity will fall from grace.

The universe protects anti-dopers, because the energy of the universe is ruled by GOOD.

My message is doping is wrong, but if you choose to dope, NEVER FIGHT THE ANTI-DOPING ENTITIES BECAUSE HUMANITY NEEDS THEM TO EVOLVE OUR SOCIETY. Never destroy the lives of anyone who is working to clean up the sport even if you are doping because ultimately doping is wrong and even dopers don't want to dope.

Figuring this out has really helped me to really appreciate athletes and sports again and to be able to remove my anger towards dopers. It has also made it extremely easy to figure who to cheer for and who not to cheer for.

If you dope in sport you are not my enemy, because you are a vicitm to the current state of the world that we live in.

If you dope in sport and you act against an anti-doping entity you are my enemy and you are an enemy to humanity.

If Lance Armstrong had not attacked anti-dopers throughout his career I would be a fan. That is the bottom line, and I am moving to a country where you has not only attacked the anti-doping entities by the innocent population of the country by telling the American's that they are bad people because they were exposing his lies to the world.

Part of my destiny is to give this new message to the world, because it is in this way that I can best work to clean up the sport of cycling and ensure that the sport progresses to a point in the future where doping may one day become history.

So I will race as my alter ego Le Rockafella Uno Tre Version 3.0XL to protect myself from further lawsuits and aggression by the evil side of the sport. I hope you understand that I must never be taken 100% seriously as it is harmful to my future as I could risk further lawsuits, and threats on my life.

It is in the fringe that I wish to remain. Thanks for your support and understanding my unorthodox approach to surviving in the sport as a true rebel.

Join our social network I have created on Ning by clicking this link www.stolenunderground.ning.com

Thanks again and I hope to provide you with further entertainment, comedy, and adventures from Paris.

Thanks again for all my supporters who have helped me the last 6 years, and keep a lookout for our new clothing coming soon.

Sincerely,
Matt "LE ROCKAFELLA UNO TRE VERSION 3.0XL" DeCanio