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Re: Official Lance Armstrong Thread: Part 4 (Post-Settlement ???

Re: Official Lance Armstrong Thread: Part 4 (Post-Settlement http://www.startribune.com/nbcsn-to-air-30-minute-interview-with-lance-armstrong/510324372/ "I wouldn't change a thing". There ya go. In case anyone here still thinks he has been rehabilitated or somehow changed. Nope. He's learned...

Why did Gilbert crash? Why did Gilbert crash? If you watch the clip on Youtube in slow mo it looks like he's following the line of the motorcyclist and all is well until suddenly a square patch of white paint at the road edge appears directly in his intended path which seems to spook him...

Re: Re: Floyd may have been a cheater, but he was no "cheater just like Lance". Nobody cheated "just like Lance".

Re: Tour de France 2017 stage 4: Mondorf-les-Bains-Vittel 20 If you just watch the video at regular speed it sure looks like deliberate elbowing. But when you watch the slow-mo, and look at stills like this, and then watch the slow-mos again. it's really really obvious. He had to lift his arm...

Re: Where did you get the idea that he was riding against the flow of traffic? :surprised:

Re: Re: We can blame the driver and rightfully so. But to survive out there we have to learn how to avoid crashes that are the fault of others. The left cross is indeed a common type of crash, and prevention practices are well known (click on link below). Perhaps not as known as well as they...

Re: Re: Given what LA said about, and did to, Betsy and Frankie, any reasonable person would give her a pass to say anything she wanted about him.

Re: Re: Today? Sure. In the late 1990s and early 2000s... naivete about doping in cycling was widespread. It was very different then. It wasn't until Armstrong finally confessed that the story changed from "tested clean 500 times" to "everybody was doing it". When Armstrong first started...

I have not been on cyclingnews in a while and just came back specifically to look for the BoB thread. How disappointing to find it has been deleted. The morons are winning, sadly.

Re: Spitting in the Soup:Inside the Dirty Game of Doping in I suppose you were joking about it being the same book, because it's not, of course. But I don't get your joke. Anyway, first chapter for free...

Spitting in the Soup:Inside the Dirty Game of Doping in Sports by sports journalist Mark Johnson, author of Argyle Armada: Behind the Scenes of the Pro Cycling Life...

A variation of this question was asked on another forum. I wonder what folks here think.

I think road familiarity and descent skills explains his getting the gap on the descent. But once the road flattened out I don't see how superior TT skills and road familiarity would be enough for a clean rider to maintain the gap as long as he did from a group of doped chasers. Of...

Same way many of these guys did it when they pulled it off. By being doped and slightly better/faster/stronger/more motivated that day. Pulling that off clean would require being better/faster/stronger by an incredible margin.