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Doping Equity? Generational Hope? A Future?

TubularBills said:
TubularBills said:
TubularBills said:
Today in the Giro we saw a 'Best Young Rider' Win! Against the "Old Guard"

Could there be hope for the future of cycling?

http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/giro-ditalia-2018/stage-8/results/

https://youtu.be/hZDhHPOPRX4

Gent Wevelgem:

"200k into that race, I felt destroyed... everybody has excuses for everything, but, you feel the way that you feel, in these races everybody has bad luck, so..."

A week later...

~ Taylor Phinney | Top 10 Paris-Roubaix 2018
 
TubularBills said:
Today in the Giro we saw a 'Best Young Rider' Win! Against the "Old Guard"

Could there be hope for the future of cycling?
Not sure I understand it correctly, but Jan Ullrich won the Tour at age 23, beating all of the old guard. He doped. The future of cycling did not improve.
 
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Gung Ho Gun said:
TubularBills said:
Today in the Giro we saw a 'Best Young Rider' Win! Against the "Old Guard"

Could there be hope for the future of cycling?
Not sure I understand it correctly, but Jan Ullrich won the Tour at age 23, beating all of the old guard. He doped. The future of cycling did not improve.
Really we should be asking how that young fella got hold of the drugs to compete against the old guard ?
Surprised it's not getting more noise, I thought it was pretty ridiculous
 
Gung Ho Gun said:
TubularBills said:
Today in the Giro we saw a 'Best Young Rider' Win! Against the "Old Guard"

Could there be hope for the future of cycling?
Not sure I understand it correctly, but Jan Ullrich won the Tour at age 23, beating all of the old guard. He doped. The future of cycling did not improve.

Lets not forget about The Little Prince. Won the Giro at 22, beating his doper teammate.
 
veganrob said:
Gung Ho Gun said:
TubularBills said:
Today in the Giro we saw a 'Best Young Rider' Win! Against the "Old Guard"

Could there be hope for the future of cycling?
Not sure I understand it correctly, but Jan Ullrich won the Tour at age 23, beating all of the old guard. He doped. The future of cycling did not improve.

Lets not forget about The Little Prince. Won the Giro at 22, beating his doper teammate.

Cocaine is performance enhancing? What you do with it, rub it on your quads to numb the burn of lactic acid?