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Once you've lived in the UK for 5 years you can apply for citizenship. So, after the 5 year contract Bernal can become a British citizen and then win the TdF as a Brit! (tongue in cheek smiley here)

Re: He's going backwards. He's popped.

Talking of pseudoscientists... What happened to the peer-reviewed papers in academic journals that Sky promised? One on Froome and one on Henao, IIRC. Did either of them get published?

I'm looking forward to the World Champs. Athletics is like cycling before the hidden motors arrived. At least you can't put motors in running shoes! At least, I don't think you can.

Sprinting is watts / kg (for the acceleration) and watts / m^2 (aero - for the top end speed). Cav is small / light and has a very aero position compared to Kittel.

Sky have always had a different car sponsor (Jaguar, now Ford) than the other World Tour Teams which are all sponsored by Skoda, as are the Tour de France entourage vehicles.

Re: This is simply not true. Cav is a decent time triallist when he wants to be - he just usually soft pedals the ones in grand tours so as to have a bit of a rest. He also used to ride team pursuit on the track and won quite a few events. He was a track cyclist before he was a road sprinter...

To me it actually sounds like a nice friendly gay club that I'd have no fears about having a drink in. :) The website could still be a good way to inject malware into people's computers, though. I don't think that's the motivation, but I don't want to risk it. I'll have a look on my home...

Is there a full list of which TUEs have been released yet? So far, all that I have seen reported are GB athletes, US athletes and Rafa Nadal. That might just be the parochial media reporting in the UK. Until Fancy Bears release TUEs from other nations (or even just more riders) we don't really...

In the gutter is bad positioning.

The plot thickens: http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/froome-says-riders-outside-vuelta-a-espana-time-limit-should-have-remained-excluded/ Seems as though there might be a rift in the team. The first thing my wife said was "what did he say to them all at dinner last night?". Froome has history...

Re: A small point of clarification: the Isle of Man (where Kennaugh is from) is not part of the UK, it is a crown dependancy. It is also part of the reason that the British / UK team at the Olympics is Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The most obvious would be Geraint Thomas. Proper...

Re: Re: And Cav has been riding pursuits (off and on) since he was 18.

Re: Re: By your metric, India should be 2nd in the table. This really is the most stupid metric of determining a country's medal prospects I've ever heard of. Don't forget Indonesia!

Re: Or they do the doping a little bit better than the others, as well as everything else. :)