Recent content by ColonelKidneyBeans

On the subject matter i'm agnostic, i was merely explaining what might be the thought process of danielovichdk2. And yet those rough estimates rather closely matches when compared to available power meter data. Like with the biopassport some weird values might be explained by external factors...

I guess by knowing both the weight of the rider, the power profile from the crancks/pedals and the climbing times you could probably rule out any kind of mechanical assistance at least.

"People" are rightfully pointing that the explanations of the UAE PR machine for his performances have changed greatly over time. Nice strawman you got going with pretending that we are saying he's not working hard. Also seems we're back at "never tested positive", that has worked so well in...

Climbing wise Nibali was as good as it gets from that era during the 2013 Giro and the 2014 Tour. He was also a super strong TTist during GTs and a shrewd rider able to put pressure on his opponents everywhere. His absolute peak was short lived but he was the real deal during those years.

A few years ago UAE were banging about Z2, which is inherently a high volume approach, now they're claiming they are actually doing "low" (relatively speaking ofc) volume. Ok.

Vingegaard is fishy as hell, you'll get no objections from me here. But only UAE had this sort of silly one time boost, Bjerg had no business being in the position he was that day, riders like Van Aert were ridiculous during the whole race except for a few less exceptional days, that was...

You don't find the sudden improvement of Bjerg and McNulty suspicious as all hell? Vingegaard could have won the stage and it would barely have changed the equation.

With respect your memory of the stage seems patchy, the Peyragudes stage was won by Pogacar, the day before Majka had to retire after hurting himself, so the prospects looked rather dire for UAE after losing what was up to then their strongest moutain domestique. What happened then? Bjerg...

The Peyragudes stage in 2022 was a sight to behold too.

I don't believe UAE has a team wide (as in involving nearly every rider) doping program. Soler didn't have a huge jump in performance there. But i do absolutely think they are doing something fishy with multiple riders, 20 july 2022 was really eye opening on that.

Neither of us know if he's bringing anything valuable, but we both know that his expertise lies only in doping, that's quite right.

It's not like there isn't any precedent to those kinds of shenanigans, we already had "as our main tour de France contender you should meet with this spanish ob-gyn and his senile assistant, he'll sort it out for you" Anyway the notion that a rider being caught working with a notorious banned...

I would not be so fast to say that it has nothing to do with UAE, if there's something approaching a team wide doping program at UAE, there are probably different "tiers" to it, and Soler seems to be in the "Call this guy, tell him you're coming on my behalf, he'll take good care of you at a...

True that, but even if i don't think that Soler is the penguin that slides the furthest, surely nobody is dumb enough to be in the presence of a banned soigneur with drugs? Is there any reason to hang with Marti besides drugs or information about prohibited methods? For legit training/testing...

What isn't basic and necessary for training (or even to do a lactate test) is a banned soigneur. The problem isn't what was or wasn't in the car, the problem is Marti.