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Back in those days, there was no real stigma around doping. It's basically a gradient, even in the early 90s to 00s the stigma wasn't that large. Social media didn't exist back then so the public shaming wasn't really a thing. The public outrage over Armstrong in many ways was orchestrated by...

Mauro forgot to plug the charger in.

Doesn't matter if Visma was perfect. Pogacar could come with no team and still wipe the floor. He is clearly on something alien-tier compared to Vingegaard.

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Those aero gains for clothes are arguably non existent. Those solid helmets from Bell everyone bought for their kid in the 1990s test better than most aero helmets these days (not talking about TT ones). There was a recent test of about 20 different aero socks and only a few had better aero than...

DId you see that recent test that found the vast majority of expensive aerosocks were slower in aero than a worn out pair of non aero socks from 15 years ago the tester pulled out of the back of his sock drawer to use as a baseline?

I feel like this is just rehashing the Salbutomol thing which is very meh and basically published to serve as distraction for the current state which is mind blowingly beyond anything Sky achieved.

UCI weight limit was introduced in 2000, before this there were bikes under the 6.8kg. Guys like Armstrong and Pantani had special built climbing bikes under the limit that was implemented. Pantani had to be given many bikes per tour because they were all bespoke frames which were specially...

I think it's possible something like HGH would make you less susceptible to illness during a couple weeks of destroying your body. Also, for the sake of argument say MvdP is clean and he is racing against a doped rider and matching him, that would mean his baseline physiology is doing a lot...

Really want to read that article but it's paywalled. :confused:

Have any people on the Visma staff been implicated in doping scandals/cases in the past like with UAE/Ineos?

UAE is doing themselves no favors having a literal has been win a 50k solo today :laughing:

A motor is a rather easily discoverable physical object. It would be tangible and inarguable on discovery, that's very different to PEDs. The notion that these are being successfully hidden is pretty ridiculous. Motors are noisy and produce heat, they do check these bikes with portable X-ray and...

As far as what exactly UAE/Pogacar is doing.... I think that San Milan guy's work is maybe worth looking into. I think tampering with blood is too risky these days, but San Milan's area of expertise is in things like mitochondria, insulin, glycogen. It was very strange when this guy was in the...

Lemond is a weirdo. On some podcast a year or two ago he said anyone with a cadence above 90rpm is doping. He called the French police on Froome when Froome won Ventoux (LOL). Froome's hacked power data revealed he did a mind bending 5.8w/kg. That was the sort of power you needed 10 years ago to...