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There is no video of Froome and Vayer. There is a video that overlays the 2013 Ventoux stage with Froome's power and HR data. It has been taken off youtube, but L'Equipe has embedded a link to a new version in this article...

Interesting comments on the leaked power data from Ross Tucker: http://sportsscientists.com/2015/07/long-live-transparency-the-data-video-controversy/ Also, I was hoping to read Michele Ferrari's take on this. Unfortunately, his website which was running on Sunday, seems to be down today...

Do you know what this man is doing today? He seemed quite a promising cyclist three years ago, but I haven't seen him since: http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/imageBank/n/nat_tt_2010_Froome.jpg

Here is the paper: http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/44627/1/MPRA_paper_44627.pdf One of the principal conclusions is that there must be believable "negative tests" that provide an incentive not to dope - in the current climate, the presumption is that everyone is doping, anyway, so a rider who...

I know that sounds funny, but the fact that the Team Sky domestiques can drop or put pressure on Valverde (previous doper), Evans (lack of form / age), Schlek (likely Fuentes connection and not in form for a while), Gesink, and even Contador (previous doper) or Rodriquez does not necessarily...

Jan Ullrich confessed to Günter Wallraff - in 2007 This may not mean anything to people outside Germany, butGünter Wallraffhas said today that Jan Ullrich was ready to confess publicly and expose the full extent of doping in cycling, in 2007. According to Wallraff, he sat down with Ullrich for...

Of course it is banned, in the sense that it's in violation of anti-doping regulations. The fact that it may not be tested for makes it neither legal nor legitimate. Please stop giving veganism a bad name at every possible opportunity :)

Hard to tell. I would have said that the other teams will try to test Sky and see if they can isolate Froome by attacking early, but the ideal stages for that are 19 and 20, and a lot can change until then. I would still expect Froome to do well on the Ventoux, and put some time on some of...

For once, I'll post in the clinic in defense of a rider. I don't know if Kittel is doped, but others are to blame for the Erfurt disaster. The doctor in this case, Andreas Franke (not to be confused with Werner Franke), was an official doctor of the "Olympiastützpunkt" Erfurt, which is part of...

I have mixed feelings about this judgement: "[The insurance company] AIH argued that the [statute of limitations] timing only started when Armstrong publicly admitted to doping in January of this year." Sure, I don't mind Armstrong having to pay back as much of his prize money as possible...

I think this is a very important distinction. In a grand tour, time trial specialists are often tired towards the end, and can get beaten by GC contenders who recover better. In an individual time trial, it's different - at least that's the theory. However, Froome's and Wiggins' performances...

On being isolated from his teammates, Froome insisted he wasn't too surprised. “Not really given my teammates did such a big job yesterday to get me into the yellow jersey. They are only human they can’t be there every day at the front,” he said...

Alpecin's most famous slogan is "Doping für die Haare" (doping for your hair). I don't think they were too fussed about doping when considering sponsoring a cyling team. I don't think Ullrich has said anything interesting in that interview at all. He would still be able to make some important...

I would see minimum weight (bmi) similar to maximum hematocrit: we don't know how riders get to be this emaciated, but we can be reasonably certain that, for most, the process is detrimental to their health. Just like maximum hematocrit, any such measure (whether based on absolute weight, bmi...

Given that some of the performance enhancing drugs in use today are targeted at weight loss, and in the face of remarkable changes in the physiology of several recently successful riders, is it time to introduce minimum rider weights? Under such a system, a rider weighing less than the lower...