Recent content by mjreck

Was watching a bit of the football/soccer tonight, posed this question to a group of friends. No takers. Why not? "Question lads: When players constantly, blatantly dive in front of millions, then deny it (alongside managers and coaches) post match when replays clearly show they cheated...

Daan Olivier un-retires, riding with lotto-jumbo next year!

I can't remember where or when, but I think I read Valverde is returning to a more "traditional" calendar next year, so probably ardennes in spring, Tdf as superdom, then a joint leadership at Vuelta? Anyone else see something like that anywhere?

Does anyone else get the feeling this is the tabloids fight-back/revenge for leveson?

Re: Hard luck @ Habs, at least it wasn't 0-10 :D Think you've 5 of next 6 at home, so should get back on track soon

Another idea for a fitting punishment! Seeing as most of the peloton seemed more interested in a bit of cyclotourism than racing, why not, for the following stages, make them race with a couple of panniers on the bike. And for every minute over the time limit, 1 kilo of weight is added to the...

Re: Re: Haha, that's what I was thinking aswell! I'm sure what he really wanted was 93 out with the opportunity to personally strangle about half a dozen :lol:

Re: I'm living only an hour to the east of Sabiñanigo. Couldn't get to the stage live because of work (don't get me started :mad:), but the temperatures have been abnormally high for September for the last week, mid 30's everyday (don't know fahrenheit, apologies!). It's not been pleasant...

Re: Re: Yeah that's true, to single out one team would be unfair. But still, would you blame them for telling Direct Energie to *** off if they wanted a wildcard next year? But essentially the organizers hands are tied, try to punish teams and they'll withdraw or not send a decent team...

Doesn't la Vuelta come under ASOs umbrella of events? I suppose with the worldtour most teams know they're automatically invited to events, so it's difficult for the organizers to lean on the teams in these circumstances and say "heh, try that again and see how many of our events you can enter...

Re: Re: Don't forget cycling! :D :eek:

Re: Re: "....ahh it was just a bit of epo, for a headache like, sure I wouldn't know anything about that kind of thing, I thought it was only paracetamol, honest mistake lads..."

Re: Re: Haven't a clue. I was literally 5 minutes on Google, that was about the sum of my research! And I'm not trying to build a strawman, simply showing that a quick look on any search engine and already a link between Efimovas trainer and the American team pops up. So I'm kinda wondering...

Re: But what specifically has King done to break any omerta? All she's done is pointed out Efimova failed doping tests and shouldn't be allowed compete. She hasn't mentioned anything we don't know. She hasn't gone to the authorities with evidence or accusations. She hasn't mentioned any...

Re: Re: I meant she made a kind of moral/ethical superiority show in the middle of competition against the pesky-cheating-foreign-doper (or at least that's how alot of American/western commenters seem to believe)but I see your point. But that's what I thought, well we've actually all seen...