Dave Davenport
Guru
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- Hampshire
BBC 10pm news; FFS sake! They might have well said 'here's a doper winning a bike race in France'.
Tour de France 2015 - may contain nuts and SPOILERS
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smutchin
Cat 6 Racer
- Location
- The Red Enclave
I used to like Ross Tucker but he's a stuck record.
Strathlubnaig
Guru
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- Alberta
Like the Flying Monkey said earlier, amazing performance to really put the final result in almost no doubt, but after the attacks on Mur de Huy and Mur de Bretagne then today's outstanding ride, if Froome keeps repeating such feats day in day out then some questions need asked.
PpPete
Legendary Member
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- Chandler's Ford
Yebbut - but from there he could, theoretically, go after the maillot a pois, instead of just caretaking it for the day.
Whether the Team would allow him the freedom or just play safe for the yellow is another question. And will his impending departure affect the answer to the question?
I was just reinforcing @Hont's point that he was fresh today because he'd done bugger all last week
His article today was poor and clichéd. It could have been written by The Clinic: Or Vayer.
http://sportsscientists.com/2015/07/day-1-in-the-mountains-one-more-pixel-context-mistrust/
Not that there isn't room for scepticism but this kind of analysis doesn't seem to be doing anything but feeding it's own myth.
smutchin
Cat 6 Racer
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- The Red Enclave
Yeah, mainly weight loss drugs and painkillers, I think. Sky might use some of these - they've been a bit cagey on the subject in the past.
Edit: google Tramadol.
EPO was added to the banned list around 1992, I think.
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bikeman66
Senior Member
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- Isle of Wight
Surely, if Team Sky were doping, they would make things a little more subtle than to showcase what they did today. I actually believe they hit that stage like that today (A) because they could, and (B) because they have nothing to hide.
Recent (and not so recent history) has turned us all in to doubters. If no-one will believe any rider is capable of extraordinary feats of endurance riding clean, there is ultimately absolutely no point and no hope not just for the Tour, but for professional cycling period.
Recent (and not so recent history) has turned us all in to doubters. If no-one will believe any rider is capable of extraordinary feats of endurance riding clean, there is ultimately absolutely no point and no hope not just for the Tour, but for professional cycling period.
mr messy
Veteran
- Location
- Sunny? Glasgow, the friendly city...
Clever people will find inventive ways round rules and regulations. When one is deemed now to be illegal or unsporting they introduce the next new idea.Governing Bodies can only, at best, be one step behind the participants
Pro Tour Punditry
Guru
I'm amazed anyone pays the slightest bit of attention to that cúnt
adamangler
Veteran
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- Wakefield
Nibali has looked off all Tour, so it wasn't a great surprise. Contador after the Giro was unknown. TJ has never really lived with the big guns on steep climbs. But for Froome to put over a minute into Quintana. That is an eyebrow raiser.
It was hot by all accounts, which does favour someone raised in Africa and who is tall and skinny, but over a minute?? On one climb.
its fairly warm in columbia like
adamangler
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- Wakefield
lance is one of the greatest of all time, theyre all/were all at it, he was the best of them all
MisterStan
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Greatest daffodils? Yes.
Pro Tour Punditry
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he was indeed.
