Recent content by atolfree

Sounds like a good idea, but I am totally against retrospective drug testing. It just opens a huge 'can of worms' that can never be closed! Can you image the claims and counter-claims that would be put forward? "They won and I lost so they must have doped", "I doped and I still lost, so they...

:mad:Is your brain atrophic? An abnormally high hematocrit may kill you very quickly, but have you any concept of the long term problems associated with drug abuse? The long term outcome from using some of these medications ( HGH, anabolic steroids, insulin, the list goes on....) can have dire...

:eek:Seems like another timely 'smoking gun'. Will it stir more sentiment to ensure Boonen does not race the tour? Or is WADA stirring the ASO pot again?

:rolleyes:YES I can hear the duelling banjo's from here in australia! Was the next sentence "squeal like a pig"??

Boonen is not even close to Cavendish as an outright sprinter! Maybe its just the C that dulls the pain when he rides the pave as he does so well?

Difficult parcours :eek: YES it looks like a difficult parcours for a TTT. Anything could happen and it only takes one crash to take out one of the top riders. Could change the overall race in more ways than just time gaps!

:eek:As an aussie I would like to see Simon Gerrans @ le tour. Gerrans has had a good season so far, but maybe he needs some down time before a possible start in the Vuelta?