Recent content by elduggo

Re: Moto-fraud: first rider caught I think if a story broke that a gendarme had detected a motor, it would grow serious legs.

Re: Re: absolutely. Don't get me wrong here. I wasn't for a second suggesting that, because cycling isn't going to affect the numbers of listeners to his show, that he's going to throw out any old rubbish. I was just responding to the suggesting that his reputation is somehow on the line with...

Re: it actually isn't though. Gilroy's paycheck comes from the radio station that hosts his show. He's been part of the furniture of that station for most of its history (it was orginally a local Dublin station, now a national station), apart from a few years where he took a break and the...

Re: Re: what? he absolutely should not have moved on. Armstrong is a damn liar. He also said he had nothing to do with destroying Lemond's business. Should Gilroy have moved on there? Gilroy introduced the motor topic to the interview by saying that the Hungarian inventor claimed motors were...

Re: in all honesty though, who really gives a damn what Armstrong has to say anymore. Seeing him squirm like that was the best possible outcome, and I thought Ger did a fine job. I don't think its any secret that Betsy is a 'friend' of that show, hence Gilroy's persistence with the Andreu...

As for Kimmage and Walsh. Today's rant was in the context of a newspaper review slot on Off the Ball. I never got the impression (any time recently, anyway) that Kimmage ever lost too much sleep over the spat. If anything I reckon he regrets that he didn't see Walsh for what he was, sooner. I...

so what's the endgame here? The leak has happened and we can probably assume nothing else is going to come out about Bradley or Froome. The British public are experiencing shock levels ranging from not-that-much to meh - I honestly don't get the sense they care at all to be honest. Brad has...

Re: Re: ok, except for the guys who don't ride in July, its not. Those guys do the same secret training (better and harder than how anyone else trains, because they are Sky. Marginal gains, etc ,etc), have the same access to the secret technology, yet are awful. And the disparity between the...

Re: Re: Sky's Vuelta team are so bad they're doing a decent job looking like they're clean. If this year has shown anything its that Sky pay mere lip service to anyone who doesn't feature in July. Not that that's anything new. And it mirrors Lance's USPS setup with his 'inner-circle' and...

yeah, this is horrible. They wouldn't dare say otherwise while they were still actively part of BC. But saying nothing at all would have been better. Unless they were forced into it, of course.

future lottery funding for sports is all dependent on Olympic performance. Just digest that for a second. Imagine the pressure that must put people under. You'd want to win, at ALL costs. So I doubt technology is all they hold back on.

Re: and some riders (Laura Trott) have won gold medals in every Olympic event they've ever participated in. Not normal.

Re: Re: just thinking out loud really. But, signs indicate, at least, some short term pain for the economy. That will mean cut in the tax take, with its associated knock-on affects. I couldn't see sports funding being prioritised over something like the NHS, for example. But then, who knows...

Re: this is an interesting one, and not meaning to take the thread too far off in a tangent, but you would wonder what the post-Brexit effect on GB will be for future olympics. Potentially not having the same level of funding, potentially not having Scots and Nordies, and potentially having...

Re: Re: You're good!