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JV You've talked a lot about VAMs, average watts over long distances, GT climbing speeds, cols, etc. What do you think of the other types of winner. For example Le Puncheurs and pure sprinters. Some of the biggest names (and money-makers) in the sport are not GT hopefulls. Do you have ways of...

I wonder if Johan's tweet prompted this: LeMond, Vaughters, Boyer and Parisotto join Change Cycling Now group...

It would have been better if Contador had just said "never mind the doping - did I tell you he nicked by wheels!?"

You know... It almost makes you feel sorry for Fat Pat. He's basically just trying to run his sport like everyone else is running theirs. It's probably how the IOC want all sports run. I.e. As long as the public perception is that people do it clean, then nothing else matters. It's clear that...

This statement of 'Amnesty' is exactly like one of Lance's lawyers statements of... well... all of them! Just hollow and posturing. There is no intent for an actual 'Amnesty'. The statement is completely designed to: 1) Make people think that everyone was doing it, therefore level playing...

I don't get it Someone posted this on Velonews at the bottom of the news article refering to JV's Clinic revelations: Then Joe Papp responded with this! But surely (as Joe surely knows) USADA have held testimonies/confessions for a good while now from these very riders and JV. Plus, immunity...

Wiggo arrived on the clinic radar in 2009. So we've had 3 years and a month. By that time in the LA timeline, we already knew that LA worked with Ferrari, Lemond had openly criticised this relationship and that Simeoni had admitted what Ferrari did for riders. In fact going back as far as...

No, but many here were quoting Wiggins press conferences and 'lack of forthright denial' as being pointers towards doping. This, at the very least, should be considered as a counter to that.

I don't think he's saying that - just that the newspapers (perhaps a reflection of the public) are very very quick to hate. It's awful to see just how quickly heros can become villains in the press. It's not something to be proud of, but I can see that it's something to fear once you start being...

But strangely enough, they never do. Can you find me a piece similar in tone to this ever written/said by someone since caught for doping?

Those who have been wanting Brad to be clear on his stance: http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog/2012/jul/13/bradley-wiggins-dope-drugs

Brailsford definitely has said it: "we are not doping and we know we’re not going to dope” “I don’t know the story, or what the guy has done but another one getting arrested under suspicion is the last thing you want to read. It makes me more determined that we keep doing it the right way...

I just watched the main group come over the line again. Wiggins is looking back at group, while Nibali is off to the side. I don't get it. Definitely no hand gesture. Unless they are talking about a different moment. Nibali does seem like a real stirrer though. I kind of liked it when it was vs...

I find when I watch him talk - on video, he is much more believable than when you read his statements in text. He didn't come across at all like LA in terms of body language, but the cold words do sound odd.

Agreed. Exactly. I don't understand why it doesn't happen. Brailsford can nearly manage it. Garmin can manage it.