Recent content by Raest

And he went from being heat intolerant to now not making any difference to him whether it's single digits or high 30s (celcius). He no longer has any weakness, even the slightest. He hasn't cracked in two years of pretty much non-stop racing. That's extraordinary.

I am not arguing for motor doping but can't compare Merckx's era with the current. It's like comparing the best student in their school to the best student in the whole country. How many teams were back then with any serious backing and what was the talent pool? Nothing like these days. It was...

He is not going to just win the Tour, he'll walk it. Nobody else have a chance. Not Visma, nor Quickstep.

Mar Stephens did a Sigma Sports interview with Pog that had more than 1.2 M views last time i checked. Five -ten times what his other interviews make. Don’t expect him to have an epiphany any time soon

Nearly 40 seconds than Vingegaards 23 performance, the typical whataboutism of Pog fans every time someone dared to mention that he is a biiiit suspect

Well that saved me 31 quid... Cheers Pog

one of the best features of the forum is how easy it is to add some in the ignore list.

70 s slower than the WR though...

It's a bad comparison on two fronts (at least) 1) the 3000 metres reace is not a pure endurance event, there is a significant energy contribution from anaerobic glycolysis throughout the race it's a lot more comparable to track cycling e.g. the individual pursuit. I am not aware of any pursuit...

The Plateau de Beille was ridiculous not only for the time but for the fact that he averaged 6.85 6.96W/gk (edit: 6.85 was Vingo's output) over 40 min after 4 first category climbs, at Stage 15 of the Tour. As you said fatigure accumulates. Armstrong's lab best FTP, i.e. perfect...

Of course you can. Power meters became available in the early-mid 90s, Lance was training with power and lactate threshold values. Heart rate based training zones were established in the late 70s and early mid 80s. Zone 2 training (well something similar in the ball park because it's not really...

The cynical answer would be that the passport, the X-Ray machines the strict testing protocols are convenient smokescreens. They can work, but they have to be implemented first. The UCI claims they are being implemented but are there? Edit...

Did they? I don't follow doping busts closely these days but since covid I can't remember having heard of anyone being caught due to blood passport violations certainly not to the extent revealed in the 2017 anonymous study that I also linked where at least 1/5 of the atlhetes asked anonymously...

[1] That's just obfuscation. A way for you to say that he is probably doping but you don't call it doping you call it "grey zone" that might be legal (only it's actually doping as it was explained to you). What if he is genetically gifted? Every top cyclist is genetically gifted they are all...

One could argue that judging from the current state of western societies this is unlikely but we are not discussing societal change but physiological change. Human physiology is exactly the same as it was 30 years ago. Nothing has changed.