Recent content by romnom

Re: Sometimes less is more. Maybe it's not the drug that enhances the performance directly but the longer term suppression of the normal functions under stress that end up enhancing performance. You know, taking away something you don't want the body to do can probably work wonders too.

Messi really isn't that special. Pretty certain that the same trend for late goals applies to the sport in general, not just one player or a team. The first half part of the story is obviously skewed since goals scored on the added time count as if they were scored on the 45th minute. Late in...

Wasn't Contador vs. Andy & co. told to the audience in the old vs. new cycling format before Sky took over the role of the new clean hope of the sport that (yet again) cleaned up it's act? In my memory of the wonderful story of professional cycling Contador was painted as a villain long before...

The discussion seems to me like a rerun of the usual stuff between (pseudo)scientists. Sports scientists going to great lengths to explain how little can be known based on the data at hand and how inaccurate it is. Now I understand that trying to get definite answers on specific cases is pretty...

Re: Re: To me the fun part about the guy is that he's clearly said something really out of character for him. And looking at the denials later hopes he hadn't. So while I wouldn't use him as a star witness for anything, the whole episode is quite amusing. When a guy with his record of denials...

Guess that sort of explains it. Doesn't make any sense to me really, but things in cycling rarely do. Seems like quite a challenge for a cycling team to further investigate an (non-)issue with the bio-passport run by the authorities on their own.

Isn't it only the same thing if his employer is actually qualified to investigate the issue? I really can't see how they would be, and asking why UCI/Wada seem to be fine with the whole mess seems like a fair question. It's easy enough to talk about compensation if/when he is cleared, but I'd...

Obviously nothing wrong with that. Just good to remember that the amount of science in these discussions is rather limited. Very unlike arguing the age of the earth. Here science gets used more in a similar fashion to infomercials. Lots of people (and teams) making claims of their own scientific...

As much as I enjoy the comparison to the new earth nonsense, the main difference to me seems to be that here in these discussions science gets abused by both sides of the argument. As a bonus the 'sport scientist' generally seem to demand the right not be able to say much of anything about the...

I'm fairly certain that I'm not saying any of the stuff you seem to think I'm saying. I am saying it doesn't compute and that's about it. You have a nation with a history of no positives. This can be explained in a few different ways. Some to me seem more likely that others given what we know...

Sorry to jump in, but this is something that always puzzles me. Do you see it as a good thing that the nation that has been at the top of the sport for decades both in number of participants and success in international competitions has no known dopers in it's history? It sort of makes it easy...

I don't really disagree with any of that. I'm just assuming that if I spent a few months with the good people of team Sky I might end up on the 'wrong' side as well. Just seems unlikely to me that all the people working for the team deserve everything that they get. It's easy enough to say that...

Some of the latest interviews have made me think that he has been made painfully aware of all the unfairness of the accusations and overall treatment the current 'clean generation' has to deal with and is sort of going all the way to make sure he isn't contributing anything more into it. At...

Is the background of Kimmage & Garmin similar to that of Walsh & Sky? I can't really remember how and why Kimmage ended up with Garmin but Sky getting Walsh on board always seemed to me like a direct response to the PR disaster they had build up to that point. It sort of feels like Walsh is...

Really dislike the Armstrong winning twice argument and the idea that he is the one who gave us the fraudulent performance and is the reason to doubt Sky/Froome. It's sort of forgetting the long list of GT winners/contenders that have been sanctioned pretty much up to the year Sky started...