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Well in the US cycling is a lost cause, if it ever had one. A cultural chasm exists between getting all worked up about the French Alpes and the stadium of the field. US sport sells the fantasy of "healthness", in the midst of short life spans, but as long as it profits those with vested...

Well if the soccer model is reasonable and just, although it could be said of football, baseball, basketball and the entertainment business in general, then what is the point of any concern for even a modicum of decency or something real? I think that genie has been let out of the vase and there...

Nay, Pog is the best of all time for Armstrong. So, I ask myself, if Armstrong got the 10% boost with EPO, what's going on now in the 10% over that clean? Pogi beat Pantani by 3:45 under Gianetti. Are we serious? View: https://youtube.com/shorts/G20mAD7TCj4?si=pjMLirkPZjTuEQ4_

View: https://youtube.com/shorts/fY8RLFqViik?si=O2ERgyHBRXH1bJVJ

Giving Gianetti petrol dollars and, sure, you get a GOAT.

Sure, but relatively speaking, cycling is "poor". Can you Imagine a cyclist getting 60 million a year or whatever? They built a stadium in Brazil that wasn't even used for the reason for which it was built. That's capital for you and then they worry about recycling plastic on the consumer end..

We're talking about different eras, different times for entering the sport, before it's globalization, etc. You can't compare an Arab financed team in the global market with no card to play nationally supporting an ace, with nationalistic oriented teams allowing a foreigner on from a nation...

Doping has always existed in some form, but the problem I have today is the economic end of it all. It used to be that a rider of some talent could find success, perhaps doped, even likely doped, in a playing field that, if not completely level, at least wasn't excessively skewed towards team...

The effects of altitudine training, once coming down, don't last as long as you think.

You know, in Italian there's a saying: A pensare male degli altri si fa peccato, ma spesso ci si azzecca (To think badly of others one sins, but often one gets it right).

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I'll have to go back over that track incident again, but that's a good historical point. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/jun/29/eddy-merckx-this-much-i-know

Merckx was still in his prime when Ocana gave him like 10 minutes in 73 (if I remember correctly). And only crashing made him lose that Tour. With Vingegaard it's less clear and, in any case, Pog has dominated him since. Granted Vingo had his problems, but still put up his best numbers, so UAE...

Sure, the key is "up to two weeks", so could be days for some, but not the length of a grand tour, when there should be diminishing returns. At any rate, I've always thought altitude training was one way to take the focus off doping. Has it's benefits, but can't explain the performance hikes of...

I think you have to ask was there a guy who could crush Merckx in top form in the mountains? Yes there was, Luis Ocana. And is there a guy who can crush Pogacar in top form in the mountains. No their isn't (at least for now, and unlikely if he remains so till 2030).