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Best magazine cover in a long long time: For those who don't know Mad Magazine it mostly aimed at young teens. They use fairly crude satire given the target audience. But this might just counteract some of the benefit from the Oprah interview. I just couldn't believe it when I saw. It's...

I can't say when omerta started, but it always wasn't that way. When Jacques Anquetil said you couldn't win the Tour on mineral water that was a pretty blatent admission. I'd be curious to know when you think omerta did take hold of the peloton. Before Lemond brought the kinds of money into the...

I agree that the general public didn't know much about EPO before 1998, but by 2001 Lemond should have expected even greater negative reaction, especially in the United States and in the peloton. Here was an American cancer survivor repeatedly winning the Tour and also attacking riders like...

Even if they were getting tired, that's no reason not to say something. The question I'm asking is why didn't they talk about what was happeing, not why they retired.

After events such as Greg Lemond's decline from winning the 1990 Tour, to 7th in 1991, to DNF in 1992 or Andy Hampsten not even making the 1995 Banesto tour team why didn't such riders publicize the effect EPO was having on the peloton before Omerta was set in concrete? I can't imagine that on Z...

I'm just responding to Mr 38%'s comment that you can gain 50 Watts just from improved aerodynamics. I think this is especially relavent for climbers who's climbing ability can suffer when they put more into their TT training. Andy Hampsten said in the early 90s that by working on his TT...

So we have a battle of TT trainers. Weber gets 50(?) watts out of Rodriguez, but our other friend, San Millan says: Now I'm certainly not saying that San Millan is the holder of all wisdom, but it just shows there are alternative explanations. These days I go with the belief that if it seems...

I don't assume he wasn't doping before now, I just think he's doing more or more effectively. Given his past teams there's no way I'd bet against gearing up then. I do think losing the Giro to Ryder in the final stage probably stung a lot, and he just didn't want it to happen like that again...

I can think of a few plausible reasons. 1) He just might be frustrated winning only the second tier stage races and wants to win a grand tour, but he has to go that little bit extra to beat Froome and Sky's program. 2) All the attention is now on the Armstrong case. What a better time to do...

Except both we and the riders are not reacting to what Froome did in this race, but to what Sky did all year. I, at least, am appalled at what Sky did to the season, and the riders just want to have a chance to win.

Andrei Mikhailov, convicted TVM doc, no longer listed on the Katusha web site, but Gennady Mikhaylov is. Nothing about being a doctor, but rather a former rider. In spite of similarity I doubt these are the same person. Or maybe Andrei was just confused with Gennady. I don't follow Katusha well...

Poor Froome. After doing so well at the Tour and Olympics he must have thought he had his program dialed just right and he'd get the win owed to him after working for Brad. Now that everybody is reacting to Sky he's not getting the expected results. It will be curious what happens after the next...

Management at Katusha: Weber at Columbia/High Road--talked a good game. Peschel for TTs--got the Silver in 2004 Worlds after Millar was bounced and also rode for Holczer with all those memorable CERAites, Chiesa's name on file with Conconi. Besnati questioned after the 2001 Giro raid. Zabel of...

After being agnostic to the possibility of Rodriguez doping at the Vuelta until now, as soon as I read that he had "the time trial of his career" he was irrevocably labeled a cheat. That phrase, when used to describe climbers, just brings back so many horrible memories for me. The 1998 Tour...

I'm no great fan of Bolt. His self promotion antics get old quickly, but there are still vestages of a true sportsman in him. Immediately after winning the 100 he was being interviewed by a European television reporter about his win. In the middle of the interview the U.S. national anthem...