Recent content by Bwlch y Groes

Re: Same - it's all very confusing to me. When I asked "Is cycling today dirtier than it was 10 years ago?", I mean the whole package, because I don't know much about what's going on today. Is it literally that the authorities aren't chasing down EPO, CERA and the like as they were 10 years...

My registration date may be 2016 but I'd been reading this forum for a couple of years before that. I know exactly why Sky gets particular animosity - that's my point. It's not the doping - it's the success, and the PR. The doping is an extension of that as it's one of the factors behind it, but...

I'm aware. But you can't possibly argue that The Clinic treats Contador's doping in the same way as Sky's doping. It quite clearly generates a different emotional reaction here. Look at all the threads on the main page about Sky and their current or former riders - I count 11 posted in since...

Apologies, I meant in terms of doping specifically

No one is arguing that Wiggins, Froome and Thomas are clean, though. Of course there are red flags there. But the point is if you're going to scrutinise them, then why essentially use that to essentially allow Contador off the hook? I remember the day I first became suspicious of Thomas, and it...

Re: This is a good question and I don't think it's going to be properly answered. I agree entirely - it's not worth getting into who has "talent" and who doesn't. I think Sky are as dodgy as anyone, as a collective and as individual riders, and it's soul-destroying seeing how much more...

I've spent the morning watching highlights of the Tour from 10 years ago, one of the most interesting and competitive Tours I can remember. Sastre's win was remarkable for the turn-around - he looked out of contention, pulled out a load of time on Alpe d'Huez, and then did the time trial of his...

Re: Re: Yes and no. Regardless of how they turned some bizarre outlying figures into GT winners, they have still, at various times, brought in a lot of talented riders over time - not all to use as domestiques, but that is gradually the way it has become with Poels, Kwiatkowski, Bernal, Landa...

The case for the defence here is that you could equally write this as "6 TDF wins for Team Sky in 7 years". But I take the point - it's part of a wider context. It's Cavendish. It's the Yates brothers. It's the track cycling team since Sydney. It's Britain's unprecedented success in other sports...

Re: Re: I don't think it has anything to do with doping but I think it's a bit suspicious. I'm not saying she definitely threw the race but I think it has to be considered a possibility. Race-fixing never gets talked about in athletics but I'm sure it happens

Re: Re: Why would it be? As the BBC pundits pointed out, if it was a serious injury she'd have been on the floor in agony. She got some mild treatment after I posted that but nothing so obvious that would basically stop her from running. It didn't look like an obvious stumble. It's really odd...

Don't know about doping but the finish of that women's 400m was suspect. Shaunae Miller-Uibo just stopped. Didn't look injured. Didn't look particularly gutted having lost an easy win

Bizarre women's 100m final performance by Elaine Thompson. She seemed to just...not accelerate. As if she wasn't trying? Last night boos, tonight Booooowie

I know we shouldn't probably lean on Lance comparisons too much, but Bolt defending Gatlin reminds me of him defending known dopers when he was winning. There's something deeply cynical about it - it says a lot more about Bolt than it does Gatlin MJ taking Cram apart live on air here is...

Well yeah, we all know Gatlin's a cheat, that's the whole point. He's one of the most nakedly obvious dopers in sport. But why is this guy in particular being demonised when Yohan Blake is running next to him also being a convicted doper and yet he gets cheered into the stadium while Gatlin gets...