Well I think a few of us have known about so-called Eddy Merckx for some time. This is not news.
Why, for example, would anyone from this planet choose Belgium?
Also, I saw an imge of him dating from the Roman occupation of Gaul (although not all of Gaul). Only an alien could travel in time like that.
Where the article falls down in with its accusations about Vince Nibali. I drank with him in Dagenham back in '98, when he was still trying to get his Italian accent right and was trying to get under fourteen stone. Good old 'Six Pints' Vince an alien? Do what? He's from Cannng Town, which was on Earth last time I was there. The lad's done well for himself....