Recent content by Larry Finnegan

Couldn't have said it any better! Bravo!

Skepticism is essential when discussing pro cycling! No forgiveness necessary!

I take your point, but again weather, distance and numerous other factors have to be considered when comparing tours.

Not comparable,Armstrong was doing things on a bike that aren't physiologically possible for a clean rider.

Others on here have spoken about illness, I don't know enough about Froome to comment competently.

Front of race and winning are completely different, I want to believe his efforts are genuine. As for Voecklers mountain credentials, they are modest to say the least during the acknowledged doping era. All credit to him for what he achieved at the tour this year, looked like real suffering to...

GT's aside Philip Gilbert is another example, Voeckler's heroics at the tour, having not featured for 10 years is another. I don't agree Wiggins is a unique case.

I don't understand this post, can you explain a bit better?

Taking the times Wiggins and others in question have done in previous years when they were finishing way down the field and presumably racing clean and comparing them with the times they are now producing is a good comparison, making allowance for motivation, weather, equipment improvement etc...

Fair enough.

Can't call it pathetic if you haven't read it all, got to give it all a go, tough going at times.

Skepticism is healthy.

http://bikepure.org/2010/07/lemond-publishes-anti-doping-proposals/ Was talking about this here the other day. Check out the link above.

If Wiggins had been a sprinter, track or road, with the build of Chris Hoy the transformation would be questionable. He's obviously not. So a change in training methods/ goals + weight loss + levelling of playing field re less doping could account for big improvements. Not to mention that the...

Exactly. It's a very plausible explanation, but not a popular one I think. Can't think why!