killswitch said:
To finish on par with a fresher/rested Panzerwagen, beating your own time by more than a minute from the Dauphine after expending the most energy this week after Schleck... It's just too much.
Well, clearly this means Greg, Joop, Laurent and Bernard Hinault also were major Epo chargers.
If you want to say it's weird that:
1. A major contender betters the time from a build up race when everything is on the line.
2. A major contender does the same thing as the ones I mentioned (who certainly didn't use epo due to it not existing), namely be constant.
I'm at a loss what your point is really.
I certainly find it likely Cadel (ab)uses as he is on Phonak 2.0. But beyond that there is surprisingly little proof, as the power-numbers actually seem to show it's rather tame lately.
And in some ways Cadel's constant yet not E.T. performance harks back to the eighties. In the 19-nineties/20-tens we saw a completely different race with different power-nimbers and consistency of the E.T variety.
Cadel was constant... but he didn't nuke everyone every last MTF or splattered everyone in the TT. So the characteristics of the supercharged era are lacking.