Froome and Wiggins TUEs

[Pro Tour Punditry]

View: https://twitter.com/SirWiggo/status/928938719603765248

Don't Diss Brad !

He's let himself go more than I have, and I say that as a complete fecking disaster zone

 

[NickNick]

Yes the lost, missing, stolen records just beggars belief. I can’t believe anyone could attempt to solemnly state all that and keep a straight face.

We're somehow meant to believe the same organisation has taken the performance of the whole sport to new levels, leaping ahead of the competition thanks to their data driven attention to detail, marginal gains, detailed tracking and analysis of training, marginal gains...

Can't have it both ways!!!

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Indeed.

It's all bollocks.

BC and SKY.

 

[mjr]

We're somehow meant to believe the same organisation has taken the performance of the whole sport to new levels, leaping ahead of the competition thanks to their data driven attention to detail, marginal gains, detailed tracking and analysis of training, marginal gains...

Can't have it both ways!!!

Yeah but you don't need to keep that stuff as long for it to do its job. Take the output of a few months of monitoring and feed it into the next months training. What's the longest period of time they'd use it? Maybe the duration of Wiggo's Sky contract? I expect that if someone wanted to see the detailed tracking and analysis of Wiggo for the same period, they'll have lost that too, which would at least be consistent.

 

[Beebo]

He's let himself go more than I have, and I say that as a complete fecking disaster zone

He is bulking up to see if he can get in the british rowing team.
I Would be interested to see what his current weight is compared to someone like James Cracknel.

 

[Crackle]

Do you think he had that tatoo before he bulked up and it's now a distorted version of the original.

 

[Beebo]

I thought you were kidding, but no. Tis true.

Maybe this should be in the factoids thread?

 

[rich p]

Maybe this should be in the factoids thread?

Is there a deltoid thread?

 

[hoopdriver]

Is there a deltoid thread?

Or a haemorrhoid thread...?

 

[SheilaH]

I have seen a response from SirBrad on twitter, classic "old skool" denier stuff.

Witch hunt and tax-payers money.
Classic, if unoriginal, Bradley.

Meanwhile St Froome, who is on the face of It, far dodgier, seems to be completely avoiding the flying sh1t

 

[mjr]

Meanwhile St Froome, who is on the face of It, far dodgier, seems to be completely avoiding the flying sh1t[/SIZE]

I think sideburns and tatty beards on the face look far dodgier.

 

[hoopdriver]

Witch hunt and tax-payers money.
Classic, if unoriginal, Bradley.

Meanwhile St Froome, who is on the face of It, far dodgier, seems to be completely avoiding the flying sh1t

Why does Froome seem dodgier than Sir Brad? I don’t see it.

 

[NickNick]

Why does Froome seem dodgier than Sir Brad? I don’t see it.

I suppose it depends on how much you believe Froome's poor performance in the first part of his career was due to the various untreated illness/parasites and that their eventual curing led to him revealing his true potential. If you don't have much confidence in that explanation for his sudden transformation then he definitely looks much more dodgy than Wiggins who had shown promise on the track before moving to the road.

 

[hoopdriver]

That’s mere supposition. Sir Brad has Jiffy bags, lost laptops, missing records, and TUE’s that are far more inexplicable.

 

[SheilaH]

That’s mere supposition. Sir Brad has Jiffy bags, lost laptops, missing records, and TUE’s that are far more inexplicable.

I don't think it is mere supposition. A change from no decent results ever to consistent GT podium placing and all within a matter of a few weeks stinks to high heaven.