Recent content by Markyboyzx6r

I think I just sicked up in my mouth.

The article is so bad it defies belief. Let his legs do the talking? Gimme strength.

Terrible decision. Inexcusable.

Absolutely. That's bang on the mark. With a little bit of digging of contacts/phone records/devices - evidence of doping product acquisition would be there, no doubt. Fair number of legal questions on such an approach. I also agree that increased testing, increased complexity of testing and...

He just made the most ambiguous statements during interview - what was the 'I'm not afraid of the outcome any more' bit all about, I wonder. He was talking about 'doing what it took to win' and 'preparing how he had to'. That's not Clinic-filtered view on it, it was a very disconnected set of...

AlexSimmons, I have to lean towards Dear Wiggo in this discussion. The last 25 years of TdF winners have been doped, so testing isn't working. More testing will not yield more positives. If the objective of doping is to artificially boost power, leading to increased speed and endurance, then...

ACOOGAN - that's some good data there, and interesting. But if we take this as a theoretical sample (there's no point in getting into who it might be), the interesting data points are after the 3/4 months base training... 12/1993 - 79.8 ml.kg.min. 11/1995 - 80.1 12/19966 - 79.2 So there...

Aye. Good point re Kittel, but my response to that would be that full disclosure power data (I called it Big Data in my earlier post, I was being all grandiose!) would be just as interesting for sprinters as for GC contenders. The same rules would apply - performance measured longitudinally...

Excellent and thought producing post, OP, and some very interesting subsequent posts. Good thread, I'll try not to scribble on it! I've been thinking the same thing watching the Tour this year. I'd like to see more data - if we knew the power data, HR data etc live for every rider, it would...

Ha ha. That's brilliant. Chapeau.

He's out! Currently in the back seat of a Jaguar. I don't think his TUE will cover doing the cobbles in a car, but who knows with the UCI.

Incredible. Even after all these years, when you sit back and look at this story in its totality, it still makes your jaw drop. Poignant too, because cycling has learned nothing, and possibly (probably) never will.

Are FIFA collecting blood samples which they will use for retrospective testing? Spain, collectively, looked "off the pace".

The use of salbutamol is a real grey area. I worked in Respiratory for many years, and I remember one memorable visit to the British Olympic Medical Centre (as it was then) in Northwick Park Hospital. They were doing a seminar on asthma in athletes, and they quoted the figure of ~25% of the...

Alright folks? Haven't posted in a while, but this Froome business has piqued my interest. How on earth can Sir Dave sleep soundly in his bed at night? If history has taught us anything, it's that they all get caught in the end. He must hear the thunder rolling over the hill. There's a lot...