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Pro Tour Punditry

Pro Tour Punditry

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The Secret Pro on the Giro:
"There were days when you’d just despair. I know myself, my teammates and many of the guys in the peloton aren’t crap riders — we’d trained, eaten and prepared for the race 100%; we’d had the best form it’s humanly possible to achieve. And then we came up against guys who simply took the piss.

The general consensus in the peloton was that you may as well have just finished the stage in the bunch because no matter what you did, it wasn’t going to make an ounce of difference on the GC or even on the stage. It wasn’t just frustrating, it was bloody insulting.

When guys who, last season — or even earlier this season — were in your group or at your level take off up the road or put out that extra 30-40 watts? They may as well be laughing in your face."
http://cyclingtips.com.au/2015/06/the-secret-pro-on-the-giro-there-were-days-when-youd-just-despair/
 
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rich p

rich p

ridiculous old lush
Location
Brighton
Marmion said:
The Secret Pro on the Giro:
"There were days when you’d just despair. I know myself, my teammates and many of the guys in the peloton aren’t crap riders — we’d trained, eaten and prepared for the race 100%; we’d had the best form it’s humanly possible to achieve. And then we came up against guys who simply took the piss.

The general consensus in the peloton was that you may as well have just finished the stage in the bunch because no matter what you did, it wasn’t going to make an ounce of difference on the GC or even on the stage. It wasn’t just frustrating, it was bloody insulting.

When guys who, last season — or even earlier this season — were in your group or at your level take off up the road or put out that extra 30-40 watts? They may as well be laughing in your face."
http://cyclingtips.com.au/2015/06/the-secret-pro-on-the-giro-there-were-days-when-youd-just-despair/
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The interesting bit is the feeling in the peloton re the Giro and Astana.
He says it would make sense for his sponsor to do the ToCal next year. It's usually thought that he's an Antipodean rider, Gerrans or Henderson, maybe but would it benefit an Australian mining explosives company to do the US tour? Or even less a Lotto rider.
 
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Marmion said:
The Secret Pro on the Giro:
"There were days when you’d just despair. I know myself, my teammates and many of the guys in the peloton aren’t crap riders — we’d trained, eaten and prepared for the race 100%; we’d had the best form it’s humanly possible to achieve. And then we came up against guys who simply took the piss.

The general consensus in the peloton was that you may as well have just finished the stage in the bunch because no matter what you did, it wasn’t going to make an ounce of difference on the GC or even on the stage. It wasn’t just frustrating, it was bloody insulting.

When guys who, last season — or even earlier this season — were in your group or at your level take off up the road or put out that extra 30-40 watts? They may as well be laughing in your face."
http://cyclingtips.com.au/2015/06/the-secret-pro-on-the-giro-there-were-days-when-youd-just-despair/
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Pretty much confirms all our suspicions about that race.
 
smutchin

smutchin

Cat 6 Racer
Location
The Red Enclave
rich p said:
The interesting bit is the feeling in the peloton re the Giro and Astana.
He says it would make sense for his sponsor to do the ToCal next year. It's usually thought that he's an Antipodean rider, Gerrans or Henderson, maybe but would it benefit an Australian mining explosives company to do the US tour? Or even less a Lotto rider.
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I've seen it suggested that it's Bert De Backer, which would make sense - the caffeine shampoo market is largely untapped in the US.
 
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Two new ones on the UCI list...

Ramon Carretero (Southeast) - EPO
Petr Ignatenko (RusVelo) - HGH
 
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Stonechat

Stonechat

Guru
Location
Staines, Middlesex
rich p said:
Was it Tyler Hamilton who said that failing a dope test was actually failing an IQ test?
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I have got his book
He almost implied that it could happen, and there was a fiasco with the blood doping
 
qigong chimp

qigong chimp

Guru
Armstrong in today's Guardian on the 'charity ride' Cookson has urged him not to follow through with:

"“People think I have this bitter relationship with the country, with its people,” he said. “I like going there. I love France … I could be wrong, I’ve been wrong plenty in my life, but I’ve been to France since all this happened and if you walk into a cafe or a restaurant or walk down the street that [negativity] is not the reaction I get. God forbid the reaction is positive. What happens then?”
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Well then you get a retrospective Therapeutic Use Exemption certificate mocked up by some bent quack, no?
 
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