Minor race thread 2017 **spoilers**
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OP
OP
Pro Tour Punditry
Guru
Valv Piti might be a big doping twat, but he's a f*cking superb rider.
Quite so. It's a VavPity but he is THE great competitor
You two are kiddin' right. This is a quote from the Vuelta a Murcia
"By the time he attacked, Movistar Team had been pulling full gas for some time and the peloton had split in several groups," recounted Bahrain-Merida’s Ion Izagirre. "Most of us were already in the red. Then he accelerated. And, believe me, he went pretty fast. When I saw no one tried to follow him, I jumped and tried to chase on my own. But he was unmatchable."
A 70km solo effort pulling away from everyone going full gas and into the red. He's a confirmed doping twat and performances like that smell, strongly.
OP
OP
Pro Tour Punditry
Guru
FTFY
Point taken but we did point out that he is a doping twat.
If he was doing stuff that obvious wouldn't his BP show such anomalies?
Or is that naive?
I'm of the opinion that it still goes on but not to such an obvious extent.
Maybe he's got one of those motors that dodgy bloke was flogging on that documentary or we can go down the benefit of the doubt route and say it was an early season race, racing for honours on home soil: Who knows. I'm just not inclined to forgive and forget.
HF2300
Insanity Prawn Boy
Perhaps naive? I don't know. I can't help feeling there's still a war on, and as fast as detection methods are developed others find new ways to cheat the tests. Given that, it seems to me you can admire someone for their flair, skill, attack and so on (which Valverde has in spades), but strength or endurance feats by unrepentant dopers perhaps still have to be viewed with a jaundiced eye.
roadrash
cycle chatterer
- Location
- sitting on the edge of wigan pier
pinot mugged contador at the line
roadrash
cycle chatterer
- Location
- sitting on the edge of wigan pier
first win of the season for dan martin at the Algarve also giving him the leaders jersey , cant see him keeping it after tomorrows time trial though
400bhp
Guru
I'm currently in the Algarve & watched the start yesterday and then watched at 3 points today. Quality racing.
And it was 20 degrees apparently!I'm currently in the Algarve & watched the start yesterday and then watched at 3 points today. Quality racing.
400bhp
Guru
Bom dia. Great stuff, I hope it stays warm for you.Yeah it was
TT tomorrow
I shall be in Monchique, but not until May 29th. I hope it will be at least as warm.
