Recent content by Northern Monkey

Cancellara did come 4th in the WRR in 2011 remember, granted, that was after 260km so perhaps more suited to his engine but he's a more useful sprinter than given credit for. Don't get me wrong I was rooting for Tony Martin and gutted for him but to claim Cancellara shouldn't compete for a...

The guy posing the question to Tucker there comes out with the now standard Sky defending point that 'you cannot make an accusation of doping based on one data point.' Which of course, fails to take into account or acknowledge the performances from the 2011 Vuelta until now which have set...

Yessss, the Dawg has gone full fcking ***

I have an issue with this, as it seems to imply that there was little suspicion on Froome prior to the Tour this year, and the performances we are seeing from him are in line with a rider consistently present at the top of the GC in major World Tour stage races over several years, and that his...

I can see it now, his thinking is going something like this...the Dawg 'cracks' spectacularly on the alpe, losing 3 minutes of his lead (he's already taken another 90 seconds on Ventoux by this point), to which the response from the Sky believers is an overwhelming chorus espousing his clean...

The reason, Tank91, why nobody is interested in a Movistar thread, is because they don't have the raft of defenders willing to engage in blind denial of what their eyes are telling them, unlike Sky, and Froome in particular. I unfortunately took it upon myself to have a quick scan of the...

David Walsh spending time with Sky in Mallorca as per his twitter feed https://twitter.com/DavidWalshST