Recent content by Floatstick

I wish Willy Voet had thought to tell the cops that all the stuff he had on him wasn't for riders, just someone else on the team.

I think winning GCs takes both of those as well as several other things. "Great talent" is a pretty wide umbrella. I think a rider's mental state is a big part of it, his dedication to training and diet, how he responds to coaching and his director, bike handling, etc. Lots of things that...

The same was true of Postal. The problem with this stuff is that either a rider is busted dead-to-rights with a test and does not have the connections to cover it up (a la Landis), or it takes good old fashioned investigation. The latter takes a long time and by the time it wraps most of the...

I still love it. Will watch the Vuelta for sure, probably Lombardia. Do it all over next year. But it doesn't matter to me that these guys are doping. I stopped worrying about that a long while ago, resigning myself to the fact that it will never change. I made it through the obviousness of...

I thought the same and I don't doubt that newer fueling strategies are better. As others have noted, I don't see them explaining the big jumps in performance, across so many riders. Part of that skepticism is from knowing fuel is just part of a very complex set of inputs and the rest is from...

Same here, I hope that whatever they are doing doesn't wreck them some years down the road. It is definitely possible to use PEDs in a safe way but I that is all old school stuff. I also find it hard to believe people think any of the contenders aren't doping. All the rationalizations I have...

If Remco goes to Ineos I think he will be in a better position to challenge for GC. Better team and better program(s), so it would allow us to see if he is really capable of competing. As far as Visma fading away, I don't see that happening. They have a guy who is going to finish second despite...

No, they brought their own mattresses to the hotels.

Exactly. Same as the Postal train which was the same as Reynolds. And the reasons for it, both the ones given by the teams and the real ones, are the same.

I don't see the "he is just annoyed" angle. What LA is advising is how to AVOID motivating people to come after you for doping. Even though he obviously knows how this works he isn't and I doubt ever will openly accuse a rider. Partly because he wants his media career to keep growing but also...

Even if you don't like Armstrong, his show on today's stage is worth a listen as he gives his opinion on all this. Probably true that he is the best qualified person alive to understand the impact.

He crushed Tirreno-Adriatico so hard in early March this year, second place Juan Ayuso said "I think I'm the first human in this race". The fact that he is in second place at TdF 6 weeks after a collapsed lung is itself pretty out there performance-wise.

I am a frequent reader here, first time poster. But I joined because I’ve been seeing a lot of comments lately about how aerodynamic improvements are contributing to these performances. Aero no doubt gets better and better, but every single quantification of the actual difference it makes in a...