Recent content by Graham

I would agree which is why, as I said in an earlier post, I think that the only real way to change the culture is to recognise that these guys are drug addicts rather than cheats. Most western civilisations now concentrate their fight on drug dealing rather than drug use because drug use is a...

The only record worth going for is the one with the athlete rules. Boardman's 56 was done on the best human effort rules. His athlete rules' record was 49.441 and that has since been raised to 49.700 by Ondřej Sosenka. However, there has to be a question mark around him considering he is facing...

So, if Man Utd came out for a game at Old Trafford wearing a jersey that hadn't been approved by the FA, you wouldn't expect anything to be done? For me, the only mistake that the UCI did here was be overly tolerant towards Cipollini in years gone by. What they did on Sunday is what they should...

Strictly speaking, it isn't allowed to be part of the Olympic programme and will have to show a certain degree of segregation to keep those that hand out the public money happy. I think we all know that BC will use it to try and move our success from the track to the road, but the national team...

It's not just the Spring Classics, it's all classics because they each have their own personality in a way that stage races never really achieve. In all honesty, the only major difference between the Tour, Giro and Vuelta is the pre-dominant language at the race and the number of media. Other...

I'm sorry, but I don't see your point? Ultimately, BC is not a general cycling news website. It has posted some of his major wins to keep casual browsers updated, but it is not there to carry out the same role as, say, cyclingnews.com. And I don't get your point about "piggy backing when it...

FWIW, Brailsford showed Cycling Weekly a file on his iPod that was dated 3 weeks ago at the end of day 4 on how GB's performances stacked up against his expectations. He was only wrong in 2 places; he expected Crampton to get bronze in the kierin and didn't expect Pendleton's bronze in the 500m...

You could argue Wiggins and Thomas, but I think that it misses the point. Rather that this was a season-long plan to give our top names some time off over the winter to complete their post-Olympic duties and either not compete at all (e.g. Romero) or compete with significantly less than ideal...

The British Cycling website isn't a British cycling news media portal. It is a news outlet for the federation, which means a focus on the domestic scene and the national team. It's not as if Cav is the only British rider getting results on the continent being ignored. Wiggo's TT win didn't...

Being a TT guy has never hurt Cancellara in Paris-Roubaix... Magnus Backstedt describes riding Paris Roubaix as like doing a series of 4'30 pursuits. Wiggins has confirmed that the wattage that Maggie was outputting on each of his cobbled runs looked like a 4'30 compared to what he puts out...

This is the one that I find most interesting as I think it is the easiest for Valverde's laywers to use. I don't see how they can argue that this was done in an area that came under Italian jurisdiction because there is no proof that the blood doping was carried out in Italy or that he raced in...

You mean apart from the money, fame and honour justified by the "knowledge" that everyone else is doing it anyway? I'm afraid that I can fully understand why riders dope. Doesn't mean I agree with it, but what they are doing is simply the dark side of something that exists in every single one of...

This is where I have a problem with the IOC. Your likelihood of being caught and the punishment you get are a lottery based upon your sport and your country. It shouldn't matter if you are a Spanish cyclist or a Brazilian beach volleyball player. The banned list should be the same, the controls...

I'm not sure that this answers my point... Valverde seems to be focussing his defence on the legality of what CONI have done. There is, therefore, a possibility that the outcome of this process is that Valverde can't be suspended in Italy because of the process rather than the evidence. In...

I think Valverde's defence is interesting. He's not saying "the bag isn't mine", he's only saying that "CONI have no jurisdiction in this case". I know how I interpret that and I suspect that know how the UCI will, too. The bit I'm not clear on is, if Valverde gets off on a legal technicality...