first emotion:
betrayal
(just intuition)
then sad and angry.
Might have a look at 2005 Tour de Swiss, and another pursuiter, MCgee. MCgee lost about 4 or 5 kgs over his career. If he maintained the weight and focussed on pursuit efforts, I am very confident, he would have been faster than Wiggins in the pursuit.
Look how Mcgee climbed in 2004 Giro, and a few Tour de Suisse years. He could hang, but usually the final stage in the mtns, and was a clean stage, he would be dropped.
I think GB are on a transfusion program, I feel betrayed by the sport. Do I want to assume the worst? What do you think. I have a visceral feeling in the gut, a betrayal. Why have hope?
There are performances that get a "pass" because they are anglophones. Anyone else, the boot would be in.
I also get very suspicious about assertions to justify performances, ahead of said performances. Explanations seeded in the media, about a trackie losing 6 kgs. Will it soon be 8 kgs?
Wiggins won 2 stages of l'Avenir, a prologue, and a stage beating Saul Raisin after a two-up breakaway. He had barely done a thing on the road. MCgee only won either Dunkirk or Sarthe, and was a stage hunter for his career. Defended and hung on for grim death in 2004 or 2005 Giro. He was about 74 kg I assume, in Atlanta Olympics, rode for FDJ at about 73, when focused on GC got down to perhaps 71, or even 70, then perhaps lost one more, throught a race like 2005 or 2005 Giro. Think it was '04. Cunego v Simoni infighting year. He lost the weight, he was a 4'14" pursuiter if he never lost the weight and compromise track souplesse, as was, he was a 4'16" low PB at Edinburgh Comm Games.
It is not just the weight, it is the recovery function. Two of the most talented riders of the French modern era are Moncoutie and Casar. Moncoutie can about 11th or 12th in 2001, when he was still riding in the peloton, and shills (very angry) like Liggett spout a soundbite about he accepted his limitations and could only try to win stages. My heiglight in 2007 was Casar beating Boogerd and the group off the front, I jumped off the couch in paroxysms of joy.
note to Bradley Wiggins:
Brad, I want to believe, but I can't. Who owes who the apology?
no flames guys, I want it clean, but this perhaps, is the last straw.
Does anyone feel like me?
If they are all gonna dope, are we are gonna be dopes (dupes), how about some diplomatic transparency? "I never cheated my fellow riders" would suffice. But from now, if I watch, I will no longer watch with any passion.
betrayal
(just intuition)
then sad and angry.
Might have a look at 2005 Tour de Swiss, and another pursuiter, MCgee. MCgee lost about 4 or 5 kgs over his career. If he maintained the weight and focussed on pursuit efforts, I am very confident, he would have been faster than Wiggins in the pursuit.
Look how Mcgee climbed in 2004 Giro, and a few Tour de Suisse years. He could hang, but usually the final stage in the mtns, and was a clean stage, he would be dropped.
I think GB are on a transfusion program, I feel betrayed by the sport. Do I want to assume the worst? What do you think. I have a visceral feeling in the gut, a betrayal. Why have hope?
There are performances that get a "pass" because they are anglophones. Anyone else, the boot would be in.
I also get very suspicious about assertions to justify performances, ahead of said performances. Explanations seeded in the media, about a trackie losing 6 kgs. Will it soon be 8 kgs?
Wiggins won 2 stages of l'Avenir, a prologue, and a stage beating Saul Raisin after a two-up breakaway. He had barely done a thing on the road. MCgee only won either Dunkirk or Sarthe, and was a stage hunter for his career. Defended and hung on for grim death in 2004 or 2005 Giro. He was about 74 kg I assume, in Atlanta Olympics, rode for FDJ at about 73, when focused on GC got down to perhaps 71, or even 70, then perhaps lost one more, throught a race like 2005 or 2005 Giro. Think it was '04. Cunego v Simoni infighting year. He lost the weight, he was a 4'14" pursuiter if he never lost the weight and compromise track souplesse, as was, he was a 4'16" low PB at Edinburgh Comm Games.
It is not just the weight, it is the recovery function. Two of the most talented riders of the French modern era are Moncoutie and Casar. Moncoutie can about 11th or 12th in 2001, when he was still riding in the peloton, and shills (very angry) like Liggett spout a soundbite about he accepted his limitations and could only try to win stages. My heiglight in 2007 was Casar beating Boogerd and the group off the front, I jumped off the couch in paroxysms of joy.
note to Bradley Wiggins:
Brad, I want to believe, but I can't. Who owes who the apology?
no flames guys, I want it clean, but this perhaps, is the last straw.
Does anyone feel like me?
If they are all gonna dope, are we are gonna be dopes (dupes), how about some diplomatic transparency? "I never cheated my fellow riders" would suffice. But from now, if I watch, I will no longer watch with any passion.
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