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44th in the Vuelta last GT of 2017, followed by a runaway "Armstrongesque" type performance in the first GT of 2018, riding away from climbing specialists at will - Yates performance by any objective measure is highly suspicious.

Will Froome be riding for a record breaking SIXTH TDF in 4 months time ?

Cyclist of the year: No contest - Froome - completed first Tour/Vuelta combo in nearly 40 years! Sprinter of the year: Froome - proving he could mix it with the best sprinters in Vuelta Stage 21 Classics rider of the year: Like most cycling enthusiasts i don't watch them - they're largely for...

Re: Re: Although money talks, difficult to see a situation where a GT winner and WTT Champion would sign to ride as a domestique for another GT winner the following year.

Re: Re: The very man ! NZ TV Report 'Bond suffered a puncture early in the time trial at the road cycling world championships in Bergen, Norway this morning, leaving him to battle to a 39th-placed finish out of 64 riders. It was a disappointing outcome for the 31-year-old Kiwi in his first...

Re: Re: I doubt there would be little between Froome and Dumoulin in ITT's during course of a three week GT - what Dumoulin took out of the main contenders at the end of the Giro is no different to what Froome routinely takes out of them in the TDF and Vuelta. However, in the high mountains...

Major props to Hamish Bond of NZ - 39th doesn't look too great until you consider that he only switched from rowing this time last year, where he and Eric Murray were undefeated globally in the coxless pairs for eight seasons.

For Froome to get a Bronze was frankly amazing after his TDF and Vuelta wins - don't forget the second and third in the TDF Bardet and Aru finished more than half and hour behind Froome in the Vuelta - putting into perspective the size of the TDF/Vuelta challenge and the enormity of Froome's...

Most Sports Supplements are hugely overpriced food! Global Bodybuilding 'GURU' Joe Weider sold the 'muscle' magazine side of his 'fitness' businesses for over $200m. He made much of his money and name by having a photograph on many pages of his magazines of one of his 'contracted athletes'...

In line with IOC policy to store doping samples for 10 years to allow for them to be reanalysed when improved methods become available, the IOC has announced it has recorded 98 positive cases to date in re-tests of around 1,000 samples from Beijing 2008 and London 2012, giving a positive retest...

Re: Spot on. John Romano is a longtime sports industry insider and performance-enhancement specialist. He has authored several books and appeared on HBO, ESPN, ABC's 20/20, and numerous radio talk shows. He is also featured as a consultant in the acclaimed documentary Bigger Stronger Faster...

So much for the IOC's prediction that the 2012 Olympics in London would be the "cleanest possible Games". Now it is very likely that it will be the dirtiest ever Games with 45 already named as positive and another 30 cases presently being processed by the IOC. London showcased two of the...

Following the recent development of a doping testing procedure an order of magnitude more sensitive than previously available, the International Olympic Committee elected to reanalyse samples from the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and London 2012 Games, starting with the Olympic Weightlifters...

Re: Going head to head with Nairo up the Lagos de Covadongawas showed glimpses of the Alberto of 'old' - but sadly it proved only the most fleeting visit. He probably needs to accept the 'old' Albert is now gone for good - as he simply cannot hold his own any longer over three weeks against...

Who needs steroids when you can lift considerably more as a 'clean' athlete! Last night convicted doper Kazakh weightlifter Nijat Rahimov, took the Gold medal in the 77kg weight class, barely a year after returning from a 2 year doping ban. He needed to break the 15 year old Clean & Jerk WR by...