Recent content by levione

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    2016 TdF, Stage 16: Moirans-en-Montagne → Bern (209km)

    Re: To be fair Cavendish made the final selection.
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    Doping in other sports?

    Re: No he wouldn't. He weighed 335 pounds. The average weight of NFL defensive tackles at the combine between 2009 and 2013 was 304 pounds. Clearly there are drugs in the NFL but it is pointless making statements based on precisely no factual support to try to prove that players have got...
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    Drugs in rugby

    Debating the size of the man cannot be equated to attempting to drag his reputation through the mud. So the answer is no.
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    Drugs in rugby

    Re: Re: 1995 lomu is certainly not small in comparison to modern wingers. He was 6 feet 5 and 120 k. The only winger larger in 2015 is Nadolo at 125, and from watching him, one could assume that a lot of that is fat. As for speed he's nowhere near Lomu. Great NZ wingers since Lomu include...
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    Doping In Athletics

    I teach in a day and boarding school in England with a high proportion of pupils from Russia. Now don't get me wrong. I don't believe that my lot don't dope but the attitude of the Russian students, inevitably linked to the culture in which they are brought up in, is astonishing. My colleague...
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    Tour de France 2015 Stage 16: Bourg-de-Péage-Gap 201km

    What will be the cut-off? Assuming the leaders come in around 15 minutes down they will have left the bus several minutes behind on the final climb.
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    2013 Tour de France, stage 18: Gap - Alpe-d'Huez, 172.5km

    Rubbish. What did you genuinely think was going to happen? Attacks 50k out?
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    2013 Tour de France, stage 18: Gap - Alpe-d'Huez, 172.5km

    This is crazy. The bus are going to be hours behind by the end. There'll be no one to win the sprint in Paris
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    2013 Tour de France, stage 16: Vaison-la-Romaine - Gap 168Km

    Quintana will move up a place today. Only one Belkin at the front
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    2013 Tour de France, stage 16: Vaison-la-Romaine - Gap 168Km

    By the look of his face I'd say it looked more like the squits
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    2013 Tour de France, stage 16: Vaison-la-Romaine - Gap 168Km

    I think maybe Cunego or Roche might give it a dart
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    2013 Tour de France, Stage 13: Tours - Saint-Amand-Montrond (173 km)

    I get don't attack the yellow due to mechanicals, flats etc, but why second? Where do you logically stop? Don't attack the guy in 6th? It's racing and it's entertaining.
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    2013 Tour de France, Stage 13: Tours - Saint-Amand-Montrond (173 km)

    Kittel's group back to less than a minute