Recent content by HyperMartin

Why? This sets a nefarious precedent: Contador fans are effectively being given carte blanche to decide which opinions are acceptable and which are not. Simply yell "Troll!" a certain number of times and the thread will be shut down and the OP threatened with a ban. It strikes at the heart of...

If the mod who did it sincerely thought his actions were defensible, he wouldn't have rushed to shut down the thread in which we questioned them. It looks awfully like an attempt to silence the critics instead of accepting he might have been wrong. PS: If I get banned for posting this...

No. Since I started following cycling in '97, I've been a fan of Ullrich, Vinokourov, Di Luca and now Nibali. But how is that relevant?

How about not? How about not getting rid of someone just because a number of people lazily played the "troll" card?

It's easy to label someone a troll when you don't agree with them. It provides a convenient escape route from actually having to confront their arguments with arguments of your own. But it was quite obvious I'm not a troll. I supported my OP with several reasoned arguments (whether people...

I'm amazed that the thread I started ("Why Alberto Contador will never be a champion for the ages") was closed. But I'm even more amazed that the closing administrador had the brass neck to call it a trolling thread. Apparently, on the CN forums, any opinion that goes against the majority point...

Sportspeople are conditioned to always praise their peers: every single win is thanks to your teammates, every single rider you beat is a worthy opponent, and every single rider who beats you is a legend. I'm exaggerating, of course, but you get my drift. So take these glowing reviews with a...

That's quite the understatement!

Does anyone but the most dyed-in-the-wool, hardcore cycling fans remember a particular one-week race from 1984?

Some have asked why I didn't count Paris-Nice and other one-week stage races in his palmarès. Well, it's for a simple reason. For non-legendary riders, one-week stage races play an important part in their palmarès. They're very nice races, with nice histories and lots of prestige. But, for true...

What makes you think your apology is desired, or even worth anything? Your wanton use of childish insults speaks far more about you than about me.

Interesting. It slipped under the radar of most non-Danish cycling websites. Even when googling with the exact ban dates, only one English-speaking website comes up. Thanks for the link. I'll remove the 2007 Tour de France from my case against Contador, which is admittedly starting to get a bit...

Link, please? A Google search for michael rasmussen stripped results in several different languages yields no confirmation, while Wikipedia still shows his 2005 and 2006 results as valid.

I couldn't possibly comment without veering into clinic territory.

It gives me a point in my case against Contador being a true cycling legend. It couldn't be that in both cases I was writing from memory and therefore my recall of time bonuses might have been a couple of seconds off, now could it? No, no, it must have been deliberate lying. :rolleyes: Have...