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Genuine question about the whereabouts system that I hope someone with experience can answer. If you have the ability to change your details up to 1 minute before your window (per Nicole Cooke's comments), then what's to stop someone from making a change at 5.30am to say "at 6am today, I'm in...

Re: Re: CAS is for sport in general; not for cycling.

Re: Re: I don't think you read what I wrote. I'm questioning the rules as they're written - it doesn't seem appropriate that there's an open ended time limit to challenge something like this.

Re: Re: Remember, this was the first test that she missed. Personally - I have my phone automatically set to be on silent from 10pm to 7am - it's a common feature you can activate on an iphone, for example - I'm sure other models can too. I don't find it odd that she was asleep at 6am, or that...

Re: Re: No, I don't think so - athletes have the opportunity to dispute a test at any time, privately, without the need to go to CAS. (It only went to CAS in this case as a 3rd test triggered a suspension.) But it should be perfectly reasonable for this not to be an open-ended timebound...

Kind of exposes another problem with ADAMS / whereabouts system. If someone is pinged for a whereabouts violation, then there should be a certain period of time - a month? - to determine if it's valid or not. After that, it no longer is a matter for debate, it's a fact. That way, Armitage's...

Re: Re: An educated and well-read bunch like us? Never in doubt......

Re: Re: I've been waiting all tour for that :lol:

Froome group looks small. Other than LRP, any of the top 8 or so missing from it?

Reichenbach falls (apologies to Arthur Conan Doyle)

Podium chase will be interesting. 1.08" between Mollema in 2nd and Porte in 6th. You could make a fairly convincing argument for all of Mollema, Yates and Porte making the podium. Quintana and Bardet - I struggle more. Top 6 prediction for Paris: 1) Froome 2) Porte 3) Yates 4) Mollema 5)...

Did Quintana eat dodgy steak yesterday? Something's cooked, and it wasn't his dinner....

Quintana biding his time until the 4th week. If Froome is tired in the 3rd, just think how tired he'll be after riding for all that week. Meantime, do nothing. Slowly slowly, catchee Froomey ;)

Great riding by the Sky team. And the complete opposite by everyone else. It's staggering just how much everyone else wants to be second. They daren't try incase they fail. So they do nothing.

Aru and Quintana are a joke. FFS, if you've got enough energy to talk, you're not riding hard enough.