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Hasn't that been the trend for years though? If you're not clear cut favourite, the amount of risk taking diminishes so you don't risk losing ground in the fight for secondary places? Not saying that Roglic and Evenpoel were eyeing each other, they lost out to inattention, but I don't think...

So... Jedi Pogacar is using... The Force?

Don't want to hijack the thread, but I find this very interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_doping#Others https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3731603 This is from 2012 mind you.

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/technology-uk/article/is-mitochondrial-therapy-the-next-sports-doping-scandal-8s9skd7cm Undetectable for the foreseeable future. Not in perpetuity. Remember how long it took to develop tests for autologous blood transfusions compared to how long the method had been...

Vingegaard said that...

These modern medical developments make a lot more sense to me as explanations for alien results than motors and "classic" drugs. They're undetectable now and in the foreseeable future, only people in the know can expose it. Theoretically the only people who need to be involved is the rider and...

I'd imagine there's still an element of omerta going on in wider pro cycling circles. Add to that the UK libel laws, and you have a recipe for journos and commentators keeping schtum if they don't have concrete evidence, even if they had their suspicions.

Re: Moto-fraud: first rider caught I reckon someone has convinced them that even when the motors are off they will electromagnetically distort the screen on the 'pad...

Re: I think you missed a p..! :geek:

Umm, Columbia? J/K https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Gaviria He's 22 yo, wouldn't say he's come from nowhere.

I hear Terpstra described as a p.o.s. - can anyone direct to me to somewhere I can read about his misdeeds?

Wow, Terpstra and Andersen in particular ballsed that one up.

Re: Re: Bingo. They have to realize he won't always drag them home. That would also force teams in the situation QS was in to try and make something of it rather than wait and wait.

Peloton given up?

Re: Exactly :)