Recent content by clearhop

The most suprising part of the SI article for me, was Popovych having PED's and notebooks in his house just 2 short months ago. Exactly how stupid would you need to be to do that given the Feds are investigating your fearless team leader? The mind boggles!

MA: I honestly can't conceive how you could possibly do that. I don't understand how you could inject enough EPO so that the percentage was slightly lower on the next day, it just beggars belief that you could adjust the amount of EPO you put in a sample by such a miniscule amount. And to be...

I guess when i think about people stinking at TT's and then coming good I think about all the riders that stank and then much improved at them - the Chiappucci's of this world. I really should continue that thought to the obvious conclusion... :p

I always remember learning about riders who wanted to ride the tour that they wouldn't normally be allowed to enter until they were 23 or 24, as their bodies couldn't take the punishment, and that they wouldn't be in a position to win it until 26/27, once their bodies had matured. Surely...

Hmm, interesting. Do you know if it was put in those exact terms, or if it was "just made obvious" that that was what they had to do?

Sorry to have diverted the discussion away from your anti-hero, but I'm not supporting Armstrong or trying to divert the discussion really - I'm sure you'll agree, that's a little different on a thread named as it is. All I'm saying is, I don't understand why people who don't like LA for the...

I've wondered this - there's a lot of people on these forums who don't like Lance for exactly the reasons you mention above, yet in the next sentence talk about how much they like Vino. I don't understand the difference myself...

I dunno, sometimes i think that you have to be a controversial f-up and an a-hole to become famous. To become seen as the best of the best you need to be arrogant and egotistical. But that's just Lindsay Lohan for you. Ba-dum-tish! :cool:

If i was joking I'd have said "2 fish in a tank, one says to the other - how do you drive this thing anyway?". As mentioned in my previous post - the delivery to mountains was always protective before, or certainly seemed it. Now it's attacking all the way. I'm not bothered about discussing...

I'm not "eagerly crediting", I'm asking a question - personally i think the "enhanced" lead outs have ruined climbing stages - we still have some good ones, but no where near as many as we used to have. I realise trying to answer a question like this objectively is frowned upon here :) - but...

When did teams introduce the lead out train on climbs? I don't recall teams doing it pre LA - i think that changed the tour/sport significantly. My memory might be playing tricks on me here but i don't remember seeing any other teams do this until after LA started winning. Did Indurain do it...

I'm getting all lonely without the Tour to watch, so am imagining a stage 21. In my world, it's almost a mountain TT, but i'm going for the TTT. Saxobank to come third on the stage but finish 2 minutes ahead of Astana. Thereby forcing Contador to attack more (in the past obviously - this is...

You are a troll AICM £5.

To answer the original question, proof that LA committed fraud only implies he doped, it doesn't prove it, therefore he will keep all 7 wins unless the proof that he commited fraud also proves he doped. But seriously, what do i know?

Really? I'm talking about this one, before the climb... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHBftK8okyA Are you talking about the later "crash" on a later climb? That was hilarious...!