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hrotha said:
Dekker_Tifosi said:
If Dumoulin is suspect then what is Astana. Another after rest day flyby shooting from Aru and Landa
Come on, this is silly. There's an Astana thread, where you won't find many people defending them.
To be fair to DT, he's merely progressing onto stage 3 of the well documented by psychiatrists the world over "5 stages of accepting a rider you liked might dope".
Stage 1 - Outright Denial the rider dopes. "I know he is clean. Doped riders don't look like that. They don't ride like that. They don't talk like that."
Stage 2 - Anger aimed at those who suggest he might dope. "You *** ****er pseudoscientists sad people who live in their parents basements and are fat and can't do anything with your lives and post in the clinic which everyone knows is only for idiots etc"
Stage 3 - Bargaining - for the moral high ground, upon realization that you may not have been occupying it. Need to portray yourself as having been right all along by painting those who disagreed with you as having had false corrupt motivations. "You are all bitter ex Armstrong fans"
Stage 4- Depression - "The whole sport is doped. I don't want to watch it anymore".
Stage 5 - Acceptance. "I like the guy and reserve the right to cheer for him, but I'll be honest, he dopes, that's the world we live in, I don't believe in fairytales". At which point the poster becomes a respected sane member of the clinic.
Keep fighting DT. You'll get through them all soon enough. You are doing well. I know people who literally spent decades of their lives on stages 1 and 2. Or in the case of JRAnton, someone who bizzarely regressed from 3 years on Stage 5 all the way back to Stage 2.