Recent content by powerste

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    'Allo 'Allo! No blood testing at the ToC

    Yeah, ToC can now claim to be fighting doping based on the fantasy that in 2011 pee tests are useful in this endeavor. The reality is that pee tests are about as useful as "grr grr grr" in your posts. And should have been testing since year one. Long before the blood doping and EPO eras (TdF...
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    Pat McQuaid must go!

    Absolutely...much as he is the poster child for incompetence and corruption, he remains a symptom, not the root cause. Not to excuse him...he absolutely deserves to be locked in stocks and pelted with rotten fruit - but so would anyone else from inside the UCI.
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    Official Lance Armstrong Thread **READ POST #1 BEFORE POSTING**

    All of Polish's personalities seem to think alike.
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    Dopers get to do 2012

    Ya' got that right! As of Dec 2010,
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    Dopers get to do 2012

    That's an interesting thought, and one that the "one set of rules" argument ignores. Unfortunately, the idea that the Olympics are somehow above professional cycling fails on a number of fronts: - Various sporting bodies are seriously inbred. To wit, McQuaid is a member, and Verbruggen an...
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    Road Race Bike Testing or Just Propaganda?

    Agree with Parera, although I do give them credit for at least using the same stretch of road consistently. But even then, will the lines be the same (best) on every descent? What about cars...you can see Mr. H left of center when he's clear but obviously he'd use a different line if there was...
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    Paris-Tours

    Proof that whoever coined the terms classic and semi-classic did so in order to keep the Internet forum home fires burning. Or to put that another way - we get to make it up as we go along :D
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    World Politics

    Ours (US) will be too. It just looks better to some than the French version because it's not a single government debt line item; rather, it's a combination of gov't debt via Medicare/Medicaid and personal (aka "household") debt for those of us not on either program.
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    World Politics

    AFAIK no other country has imported country music from us either :D We now return you to the previous serious discussion...
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    Official Lance Armstrong Thread **READ POST #1 BEFORE POSTING**

    Comeback 3.0? Pat thinks it's a great idea, and I can handily provide a link to back that up. "You said your Beijing bike race would promote cycling in China?...That's as ludicrous as raising awareness for a ubiquitous dis-..." LMFAO!
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    Giro 2012: Route Rumours / Our wishes

    What about pony love?
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    Giro 2012: Route Rumours / Our wishes

    That's the point - an exciting end to a 3-week race. The problem is what exactly?
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    Official Lance Armstrong Thread **READ POST #1 BEFORE POSTING**

    The feds may find themselves behind the wheel of a large automobile LA may tell himself, this is not my beautiful house
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    McQuaid v Floyd

    They prolly get an average of CHF 100,000 as well - just not from the official payroll numbers.
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    McQuaid v Floyd

    As we all know, McQuaid said: But from UCI's accounts, as reviewed by inner ring: Ol' Pat never was very good with numbers...