Recent content by MightyWheelSucker

Rules which are poorly written can be interpreted opposite to intentions, I agree. And we are not talking about laws with many interrelations with oter laws where something might be overlooked. We are talking about simple control process. USADA is to blame, however limited experience I may have...

Are antidoping agencies like USADA having full time and paid positions or they are volunteers only w/o any salaries? It's clear that they do not understand their rules so either they are not caring much or are not capable of. You cannot expect to effectively fight the doping in such circumstances.

I hope JA, Egan and G to get podium in Paris, then Ineos announces JA to join them and whole podium plus GdI winner to do train for Chris next year :)

Lost internal fat indeed

Great ride by Bardet. I think this year he will easily win Tour, if nothing unexpected happens. I also expect him to win a few other races, aybe even classics. And generally, big improvement from French riders this year.

Re: Looks like hard, marginal gains oriented training. Froome at the end of this train, I guess.

FW has descending gradients at the end, so it is (relative) descend as well.

Pragmatism has nothing to do with fair play. I thought fair play is what is Clinic about? From pragmatism perspective, such nasty affairs should never see the daylight.

Sunweb looked very convincing in proving they are clean in Worlds TTT.

Re: Cannot see how BMC is left behind. The best team in one week races this year and pissibly in classics.

Re: Re: Yeah. Good post. I also do not understand why anybody is mentioning Majka in his own thread. On such occassions like being 3rd in Rio after dramatic finish, or discussing his statistcal chances in Tour. Instead, they should discuss there some more valuable riders like Thomas, etc...

Barguil is obviously clean. His sudden increase of performance comes from natural, steady growth of application of modern methods of science in training, nutrition etc. in Sunweb. Total performance of team proves it: Dumoulin, Mattweus, Barguil. I bet that Kelderman will be top 5 in Vuelta...

Re: Tour de France 2017 Stage 17: La Mure > Serre-Chevalier Actually Rominger lost because 2 of teammates crushed on one of early stages. On 4th was 80km TTT where his team lost 3.5 min to winners (GB MG) and 2 min to Banesto. This caused Rominger landed in about 70 place and when it came down...

So, GvA and Roche will probably be completly useless tomorrow. Maybe they would be not useful regardless, but it does not really leave much space to any team tactics (like trying to send someone into early break).

So, the hardest stage of this year Tour has rougly something like 20 km of total ascents in the last 90 km. Guy with strongest team smiles...