Recent content by dienekes88

Only read this thread, because I was wondering how it could have gotten so long. Where do you find the energy, Kurt? Good on ya. People will hate something for any number of reasons. I've spoken with people who think vaccines are the product of corporate America taking over medicine...

Who's talking sh*t? You're clearly a much better interpreter of this stuff, and I was confused. I'm really not up on cycling stuff. I flip through CN once a week and VN once a week. I was thinking that since AC was on the fence, hadn't bought of his contract yet, and was trying to convince...

Looks like AC is staying. Since you're smarter than I am, can you explain to me why AC might stay? A few have transferred into Astana. I defer to your superior knowledge and intelligence to explain this one to me. Maybe this was addressed earlier. I don't really keep up with the CN...

Hahaha. They haven't had 1/10th the success in raising money or "awareness." If someone's ego gets padded along the way. Who cares?

Yes. Also, everyone wants to make a living. So you begrudge him the fact that he isn't 100% an altruist? That he hasn't taken a vow of poverty? Hilarious. Do you think doctors are taking advantage of all those sick people out there who need surgeries and medications? OR how about the...

You realize that no matter what you say, they won't be convinced, right? The realization that the LAF can leverage "a brand" in order to get the US and other governments to spend more money on cancer than the LAF ever could've dreamed of spending is hard to understand for people who are...

Yeah, but it doesn't look like Astana is going to let AC go. You would think that the opportunity to ride for a Tour-winning team would be a reason to stay on Astana..

But Astana didn't let him go. Why doesn't anyone want to ride with the best grand tour rider in the world (Contador)?

Pulmonary embolism. Leave it alone. It's unclear that this was drug related... When I hear pulmonary embolism, two things immediately come to mind: neoplasm and virchow's triad (stasis/turbulence, endothelial damage, and hypercoagulability).

Skimmed the thread and assumed you were in the same camp as the above quote. I think he'll be very competitive if he's serious: maybe around 10th (8:35-8:40)? The limiting factors will be losing too much time in the swim and not having the running miles in his legs to throw down the really...

Pretty sure you're mistaken. The spots aren't at the expense of people who have to qualify. Do you think the guys who are paid to pace the leaders in the marathons and then drop out at miles 15 and 22 are taking spots from qualifiers? Do you really think people were thrown out of Leadville...

I would suspect that a bigger draw to anti-hypertensives might be to vasodilate the pulmonary vasculature. This is especially helpful at altitude when the pulmonary arterioles contract in response to hypoxemia in order to improve V/Q matching. Athletes are no longer able to target the...

Exactly. If they test positive, they'll be taken out of the results for the past year, because they should've been serving time. It doesn't mean that they've been doping in the past year. Who knows. They could've been scared straight. However, they were taking part in races that they...

And higher probability of false positives. Sensitivity and specificity.

The deal is: nobody loves to hate Twiggo... unlike another rider in the peloton. I think I mentioned that if "someone else" had posted these numbers, there'd be an outrage. Lo and behold. That "other guy" did post similar numbers, and we have a massive discussion about it. It's not...