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Sagan = Sean Kelly. Dillier = Rudy Rogiers.

Ludo Peeters You never hear about him anymore 1977 Paris–Brussels 1978 Tour de Luxembourg 1979 Paris–Brussels 1980 Scheldeprijs Vlaanderen Tour de France: Winner stage 14 8th place overall classification 1982 Rund um den Henninger Turm Tour de France: Winner stage 1 yellow jersey for one...

Re: Re: His Amstel win was full *** too

Johan Capiot Willy Vannisten Willy Planckaert Eddy Planckaert Eric Vanderaerden The last three were green jersey winners A couple of obscure ones from the 80s. Jan Bogaert and Jerry Coomans. Both dominant in the kermesses. Coomans was insanely fast

You are right, Kwiatkowski still needed to have the confidence...and the legs...to do it, especially with a class act like Sagan. It worked out beautifully for him, and he knew exactly what he was doing. No good laying off if you don't have the ability to race back up to the wheel!

You'd only beat me because I'm fat and don't ride much anymore, not through tactical nouce. I've had this stuff hammered into me since I was a kiddie. Do you even know how to lay off the wheel in a sprint? He only laid off 1.5-2 lengths. Track sprinters lay off the wheel even more than that...

Rhubroma was spot on. It's old school tactics 101. Kwiatkowski would have deliberately laid off Sagan so he could race up to Sagans wheel in the slipstream.The idea is you get a bit of momentum by racing up to the wheel, momentum you wouldn't get if you simply step off the wheel and put your...

Re: FINA tried to cover it up as it was a 'small amount'. WADA kicked their butts over it.

Pretty much this. Anyone around the sport in Victoria the early 90s knew first hand or heard stories of this skinny MTB teenager ripping the legs off all the local heroes (inc state and national champs and Aust reps) out at VFL park week in week out. Evans is a gifted athlete.

http://cyclingtips.com.au/2014/03/the-human-cost-of-gold-medals/ Billy Joe Shearsby. Made the team alright, was cruelled by the AIS afterwards. Anyone who's met him will tell you he is a likeable bloke. Classy rider too. Really classy. Looked a picture on the bike and was STRONG.

No subtext. Yeah, shared a bronze at Barcelona. I met Forsythe very briefly once. Just a knockabout Aussie country bloke who could jump high. I doubt he was on the gear, because I looked in his eyes and stuff ahahaha. No reason to believe he was a doper unless Thorpdale potatoes are now on...

Old man Coe was quite a good cyclist too

He was from down my way. Extremely injury prone IIRC. Tall skinny beanpole. Marginally interesting side note. He was co-winner of the local sportsperson of the year award in 1992, along with Kathy Watt. An uncle was on the voting committee. He had trouble answering the old mans...

Andre Tchmil, 1994 Paris-Roubaix

Hinault, lots of races. Just a selection.... 1979 Tour of Lombardy (rode all bar Contini off his wheel) 1980 World Championships (rode everyone off his wheel) 1981 World Championships (crossed a minute and a half gap solo to a break containing all the favourites, only beaten by Freddy...