Recent content by Amaru

You absolutely cannot compare the two injuries. After a hip surgery the goal is to put patients on their feet as early as the same day. Here this is a conservative treatment, without surgery. It takes a little bit more time but there is way less long term effects.

Re: And apparently wants to become a fireman.

Of course not. This is cycling there will always be suspicion when a rider is having good results. But to talk about a "ridiculous transformation" is, well, ridiculous. As said above, the guy has some reference in U23 and, at 25 after 2 years in procycling, is coming to maturity and getting...

Re: Won't he have leadership on the Giro ? maybe that's enough for him. I really don't know, just asking.

Re: Re: I could definitively be mistaken, I could've swear I read something about that but I just can't find it.

Re: Re: That's funny after saying in the stage 15 thread that you loved Contador so much. He won a lot this stage, he took time from every GC rider not name Quintana and he's now in a great position for a podium. As for Quintana and Froome i don't really see any difference between what the...

Re: Re: I don't think he settled, I really believe he wanted to attack more but couldn't due to team directives not to go too hard because to wanted to keep Valverde on the podium. I thought Quintana hinted as much recently but i can't find the link, if somebody remembers it ...

Re: Re: It usually is in the medical field though. Of course not but even tough it can be interesting from a certain point of vue and their methods seems good, this is a pretty weak research, especially if you're going to use it to claim that Froome is a clean rider.

Re: Re: I disagree, the authors claim that they provided insight about the physiological characteristics of a TdF winner and that's exactly what they did. Whether he's doping or not is irrelevant for them, don't get me wrong it's 100% relevant for every cycling enthusiast, but they never...