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    When you need more motivation to climb those hills...

    Need a training partner who'll push you to your max? https://postimg.cc/DJr9nRYr
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    Roger Federer - cycling star?

    https://www.insidehook.com/article/health-and-fitness/roger-federer-peloton
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    Candidate cage match: Alejandro Valverde vs. Sean Kelly

    Two great all-around riders who were/are at their best in one day races, but very competitive in stage races and GTs. King Kelly: GTs TDF: 5 stages, 4 points jerseys Vuelta: 1 overall, 1 other podium, 16 stages, four points jerseys Shorter stage races Paris-Nice: 7 consecutive titles TdS: 2...
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    Harvey Weinstein case

    Harvey Weinstein has been found guilty of two counts of rape and sexual harassment, the more serious one carrying a minimum of five years in prison, and a maximum of twenty or twenty-five years. I don’t know if we can discuss this here. One of the unallowed topics is sexuality. I take that to...
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    Coronavirus: How dangerous a threat?

    Note: AFAIK, the following post does not run afoul of the (very sour) GRAPES rule, but we shall see: I don’t want to belittle the seriousness of the coronavirus outbreak, but the world’s reaction to it, IMO, is way over the top. I couldn’t believe that a golf tournament was cancelled in...
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    The Houston Astros Sign-Stealing Scandal

    I think this deserves its own thread, because it may be the first time in major league baseball history that there has been a team-wide cheating scandal (at least since the infamous Black Sox fixing World Series games exactly a century ago), comparable to the team-wide doping programs we know...
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    Question Running vs. Cycling: Energy Required

    I brought up this issue many years ago at another biking forum, and it didn’t prompt much of a discussion, but I’m going to try again. In fact, I’ve seen it discussed at a running forum. How much energy is required for cycling vs. running? The general consensus seems to be that three miles of...
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    Accidents and age

    I guess what happened to Froome could have happened to anyone, but was it made more likely by his age? Slower reflexes, lapses in concentration? One of the more remarkable achievements of LA, doping aside, is that for 7 straight years he never had a significant crash. Then he comes out of...
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    Most disappointing drug suspension?

    It doesn't have to be a favorite rider. For me, it was when Puerto broke, and Ulle and Basso were forced out of the Tour on about the day before it began. This was the first Tour since LA's reign and promised to be an epic battle between his greatest rivals. Basso had just won the Giro, so...
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    Which is the worst form of cheating?

    Three guys enter a triathlon. One of them uses fins to get an advantage in the swimming leg. The second one has a hidden motor in his bike. The third finds a short-cut in the running leg. I'm not concerned here with how likely any of them are to get away with their cheating, nor how much of a...
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    Anti-Doping Book

    The Anti-Doping Crisis in Sport. Causes, Consequences, Solutions by Paul Dimeo and Verner Moller London: Routledge, 2018 https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781134809998 The link provides an abstract for each chapter. Here are four of those abstracts: 1. The inadvertent consequences of...
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    Open letter to Froome

    Hi, Chris: You’ve just completed one of the most remarkable runs in cycling history, winning the three Grand Tours consecutively, and coming fairly close to a fourth. You might expect to be hailed as a hero, but instead, many have reviled you. You were booed throughout the Tour de France, and...
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    Early season races: how important are they to GT success?

    This post is prompted by Froome’s situation. Let’s say he’s sidelined for a year beginning right after the Giro. This means he would not be able to ride the Tour this year, but could ride it next year. But he’d have only about a month to prepare for it, as far as racing goes. How much would that...
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    Stephen Hawking dies at 76

    What an inspiration he has been. He was given two years to live when he was 21, and not only survived more than a half a century longer, but had a surprisingly full life, as one of the most accomplished physicists of his generation; the author of several best-selling books; a guest actor on...
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    All About Salbutamol

    Since salbutamol has become the drug du jour, probably the drug of the year (and 2018) as far as the Clinic is concerned, I think it warrants a separate thread. This one is for discussion of (among other topics): 1) research suggesting possible performance-enhancing effects of the drug; 2) the...
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    Contador vs. Froome

    Obviously they’re the two best GT riders of this generation. Contador has 7 GT wins (+ 2 more DQd) vs. 4 for Froome, but all of Froome’s are in the TDF. Froome also has four other podiums in GTs (though only one in the TDF), while Contador has 4 other top tens (three in the TDF). If we use the...
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    Should Clinic posters be allowed on a bike?

    The problem starts right at the shop, when our Clinician goes to buy a bike: Clinic Poster: Does this bike have a hidden motor in it? Salesperson: Er, no. Is that what you’re looking for? CP: Of course I’m looking for them! I’m always looking for them! They’re everywhere now. But that’s not...
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    Best Consecutive GT Performance Since Pantani??

    Froome trying (again) for the Tour-Vuelta double makes this an opportune time to ask this question. And with Contador already starting to disappoint, maybe it’s a little consolation to his fans to suggest his 2011 as the best of all the failed attempts at a double—even if his finishes are no...
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    Olympic cycling suggestion

    Currently, there are just two road events, a road race and an ITT. Why not replace them with a week long (5–7 days) stage race? The advantages, for cyclists, are obvious: 1) Multiple stages would mean at least one stage for sprinters, one for climbers, and one for breakaway specialists; medals...
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    Poll: Should the Babes on Bike thread have been removed?

    There has been a lot of debate about this, both on the Modestly Clothed Women thread in this subforum as well as in a thread in the About the Forum section announcing the removal of the BoB thread. I'm very curious to see what the level of support for and against the removal of the thread is. I...
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