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Recent content by labratty

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    Random Rider/Team Thread

    One of the worst but even then he fails to win, Ricco all the way. ratty
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    Doping in other sports?

    This was on the news down there http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-03-13/aussie-sport-doping-details-emerge-as-government/4571490
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    Roma Maxima - Giro del Lazio 03.03.2013

    :) yup, typo, translating the Italian was taking most of brain capacity, not done it for a while. Just made it more exciting than 30s. Would have been nice to see it, stream was dead for me.
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    Roma Maxima - Giro del Lazio 03.03.2013

    Still out there with 3km and +20s, but pedalling squares, dead on the bike
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    Roma Maxima - Giro del Lazio 03.03.2013

    the ticker said he had returned to the group, did he puncture?
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    New and growing first world problem

    Those reviews do no get any less funny even after a few times :) Try this link also for the other reviews
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    Tennis

    This may have already been posted but worth a look http://www.itftennis.com/antidoping/news/statistics.asp 2011 4-6 in-comp tests and 1-3 OOC for Sharapova Interesting definition of constantly.
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    Lance appearing on Oprah next week

    Admitting doping will not have any of the race ban rolled back tho. Bans are reduced for cooperating with investigations, so he needs to talk about how it all happened. The money trail and the drug transport trail, JB, Ferrari, all them. And since he is a convicted ringleader (not alledged...
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    Reactions from the peloton

    I was wonder that myself, out of real interest, not to be critical because 6000 test of either sort deserved some credit. I had a poke around their website and did not find what I was after but did find a summary page of news that included what the IOC had planned for the 2010 Winter Olympics...
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    Pinnochio as a mascot for the 2013 World Championship

    Oh dear, he isn't using glass, silly little puppet. I guess no-one told him about the plasticiser test, he better hope Uncle Pat is still running the show when those results come back... ratty
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    The start of top tube seated descending?

    Well I have been working my way through this youtube channel this week, mid 90s stuff http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJcBtRBURJ4 It was the 94 stuff last night that got me thinking. S14 has an interview with Didi Senft, well not really an iterview since Gary Imlach has no German and Didi...
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    The start of top tube seated descending?

    I was watching some old TdF videos last night and the downhill style stuck out as quite different. Although as the riders were generally more stretched out with longer top tubes, instead of longer stems and seat tubes, that explained much of the difference. But then I thought about the...
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    UCI's response to USADA report

    I suspect UCI spin at large here, that last photo of Pat was clearly photoshopped, but I think I found the original...
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    UCI's response to USADA report

    He just said they were open about the money from Armstrong? Didn't it take from 2002 until 2010 for it to all come out?
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    How is this going to end?

    3 is where it seems to be heading, but 5 could follow without 4. Six months in the Martha Stewart Home for naughty little rich people.