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There's been a 'home team advantage' going back to the days when pro footballers smoked a couple of packs of woodbines per day & drank like fish.

But if his VO2max was that high don't you think Brailsford etc would be singing this fact from the roof tops? It'd be a legitimate explanation for his outlandish performances. They aren't & it isn't.

I enjoyed the astonishing revelation that they got the riders to practice 'sharp accelerations'. No doubt there will be howls of anguish from the other pro tour teams when they find out about this evolution in cycling training.

There was some other guff about how Sky investing in 'good science' whereas previous teams invested in 'bad science'. Absurd.

I'm hoping Contador finds some form by the time the race gets to the Alps but to be honest I don't think he's got much chance of getting any where near Froome. I don't think he's doping now. He's on a massive, massive salary at Saxobank. Enough when the contracts over to retire very...

Really disappointed by this. It's not right.

Pro Cycling is a very small world. The idea that Sky were 'none the wiser' about Leinders bearing in mind his provenance as a Doctor for a notoriously dirty team is simply laughable.

I was pretty confident he was 'at it' by the conclusion of the 2001 T de F. That was ridiculous.

As I've already said BW isn't the sharpest tool in the box & back in 2009 Armstrong was a very powerful player. BW enjoyed his breakout performance in 2009. No one was expecting him to do very well in that Tour. I suspect he realised he had the potential to make big money in pro-cycling & felt...

I think Cav is a lot smarter than he's given credit for. He's badly educated & therefore ignorant but by no means stupid.

I've absolutely no interest in 'covering' for Wiggins & for the record I think Sky are well dodgy. No one in the Peleton was going take a pop at Armstrong in 2009 whatever their private feelings about him. He was too powerful & in those days Wiggins hadn't acquired the status in the sport he...

The thing to remember about Wiggins is that he isn't very bright. He's also impetuous which means he says things without considering the ramifications. Bearing this in mind his inconsistent statements about Armstrong are understandable.

Slightly. He's upgraded from Ebola to Cholera status.

That's almost certainly Dave Kitson.

Nasty thread. I hope it's canned asap.