Recent content by Shotstopper

If you boil it down to who gives him the best chance to win the tour next year, I think it is Garmin. What he needs most to compete against Saxobank and Radioshack is a team that can time trial. Garmin more than fits the bill. The fact that BW and VdV can climb just puts it way over the top...

You can't "hypothetically" change one variable and expect all the other occurrances to play out exactly the same as they actually did. If you change one outcome it will create a cascade of changes downstream in time. Armstrong, for example, might have attacked Wiggins more often to gain time...

Yeah it's plausible, but in today's day and age the ITF comes across as gullible IMO. This is essentially the equivalent of baseball players and football players saying they they took an OTC supplement but didn't know it contained anything illegal. It's the "I didn't know I was exposing...

Wow...I didn't really know how I was going to do it but I went to edit my post so I could move it to this forum and I don't know if it was when I clicked on the "go advanced" button or whether the Mods moved me over at that very same instant I clicked, but the next thing you know...BAM!...here I...

Well now we know what explanation will be thrown about in the next round of positive tests. :rolleyes: :D Cocaine from a kiss I don't think this was one that Floyd threw out there. Betcha he's kickin' himself. :D

I think 198 km is probably where the GC guys shed the peloton. The question I have about the "set a steady, blistering pace" strategy for Astana is that when Discovery used to do it Armstrong had two or three climbers with him who would waste themselves for him in order to discourage attacks...