Fabio Aru 6.5w/kg

[Eyeballs Out]

Aru had the trots didn't he ? Bit of a shame really because it might have been a good battle for pink otherwise but that's part of the job of being a GC rider - don't get sick

 

[IndianCyclist]

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*ridiculous.

ie ridiculous midway miracle comeback.

From cracked to 2 stage wins back to back dropping everyone else on the hardest mountain stages of the Giro on the penultimate stages of a 3 week GT.

Merde di Torro.

If there is no clearer sign, then what is there? I'm no doctor, and I didn't diagnose Contador's "broken shoulder and he will abandon", but the human body just doesn't work like this. You become tired, then exhausted, and soon you look like death, which is what Aru looked like for the second week. Then literally overnight, you become the strongest rider in the peloton, and win back to back stages, finishing with some good roid rage on one of them. Does anyone NOT see this and find it ridiculous? Somewhere Greg Henderson is muttering TO HIMSELF no doubt....

how does this

become this

in 4 days

 

[SeriousSam]

Aru's trajectory in the Giro is rather hard to swallow indeed. What could possibly explain this other than a bag or two?

 

[Irondan]

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Aru's trajectory in the Giro is rather hard to swallow indeed. What could possibly explain this other than a bag or two?

Many things can explain this, all of them banned....

 

[Electress]

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There are certainly big big questions to ask of Aru's resurrection, and Astana's strength.

I don't think there are any questions at all. He's obviously a protected rider because he should be glowing right now or he did a BB and the results will never make it to his BP. The only question there is here is who's covering up for Aru? For all of Astana for that matter?

Well, they seem like pretty big questions to me. And why?

 

[Eyeballs Out]

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Aru's trajectory in the Giro is rather hard to swallow indeed. What could possibly explain this other than a bag or two?

Many things can explain this, all of them banned....

It's obvious. He was juicing the first week. Then when it looked like he had a chance of winning the race, he decided to stop for 10 days so that he would keep getting dropped. Then he started juicing again for the last two stages

 

[rm7]

In the last few year i havent seen a rider in a GT make such a comeback.

He was clearly fading more and more, and now he suddenly rides from everbody. What a *** joke. Come on !!! And no questions are being asked about him..... No doping speculation.....

All i hear is Rolf Sørensen yelling "what a impressive comeback he have made in this race... what a star"

 

[staubsauger]

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Aru's trajectory in the Giro is rather hard to swallow indeed. What could possibly explain this other than a bag or two?

Many things can explain this, all of them banned....

It's obvious. He was juicing the first week. Then when it looked like he had a chance of winning the race, he decided to stop for 10 days so that he would keep getting dropped. Then he started juicing again for the last two stages

But that actually suggests we are in a Armstrong versus Rasmussen 05 situation aka "Make sure you don't steal the race"

That would really annoy me. If they just dope like in the 90s ... So what? As long as Ferrari is around and no incapable Spanish farmers doc.

 

[Escarabajo]

Most of what Astana was doing on this Giro is probably banned. So I don't really care to what Aru was doing at the end anyway. Why should it be different from the beginning.

 

[victorschipolrijk]

In yesterday's ITT, on the first 2 segments, the best suited for him, he lost 1' 44" (first segment loss of 44", second loss of 1') to Dumoulin, then on the last 10 km, the best suited for rouleurs, he lost only 9", and in the process going 21" faster than Kiryienka and 17" faster than Bodnar.
That reeks of mechanical doping, in the last 10 km he put the turbo.

Are they checking the bikes??
I mean, have they checked bikes in this Vuelta??

 

[Billie]

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In yesterday's ITT, on the first 2 segments, the best suited for him, he lost 1' 44" (first segment loss of 44", second loss of 1') to Dumoulin, then on the last 10 km, the best suited for rouleurs, he lost only 9", and in the process going 21" faster than Kiryienka and 17" faster than Bodnar.
That reeks of mechanical doping, in the last 10 km he put the turbo.

The last 10 kms had a climb in it. it's the part that did not suit rouleurs.

 

[hrotha]

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In yesterday's ITT, on the first 2 segments, the best suited for him, he lost 1' 44" (first segment loss of 44", second loss of 1') to Dumoulin, then on the last 10 km, the best suited for rouleurs, he lost only 9", and in the process going 21" faster than Kiryienka and 17" faster than Bodnar.
That reeks of mechanical doping, in the last 10 km he put the turbo.

The last segment wasn't suited for TT specialists. It was technical with lots of tight bends and what not. If you saw the graphic, both Majka and Purito also lost less time on the final segment relative to what they lost on the first two.

 

[dwyatt]

Is Aru still suing henderson? all seems to have gone quiet?

 

[Escarabajo]

Is Fabio Aru doing a Tyler Hamilton at the Dauphine?

 

[lenric]

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Is Fabio Aru doing a Tyler Hamilton at the Dauphine?

Why not a Nibali (with due differences)?

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

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Is Fabio Aru doing a Tyler Hamilton at the Dauphine?

no the guy was idiotic enough to go from long altitude camp straight to this race without a day rest. really stupid

 

[Kokoso]

Third week is here and with it TM Astana leader "superpeak". Aru who couldn't follow nobody at Andorra resurrected. I'm really surprised this is first post after today's time trial. It is probably most suspicious performance.

 

[bigcog]

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Third week is here and with it TM Astana leader "superpeak". Aru who couldn't follow nobody at Andorra resurrected. I'm really surprised this is first post after today's time trial. It is probably most suspicious performance.

Free pass unless Sky ..

 

[Fernandez]

Here we go with the typical Astanas third week. Nothing new under the sky.

 

[Digger]

you've got sky fans saying astana should be target tested for the next two nights - unreal

 

[DanielSong39]

We'll see what Aru does the next couple of days.

If he wins the Tour it'll be obvious that the dude is using a motorbike. Medicinal doping only goes so far.

Maybe he makes the podium?

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

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Here we go with the typical Astanas third week. Nothing new under the sky.

you said what?

 

[DanielSong39]

Dude performed like a clean rider in stage 20, LOL.

 

[movingtarget]

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Dude performed like a clean rider in stage 20, LOL.

So clean he forgot to eat !

 

[staubsauger]

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Dude performed like a clean rider in stage 20, LOL.

So clean he forgot to eat !

Again!? :surprised:

Pal begins to look like a rider that would be even more hopeless than Froome without the race radio and a powermeter. :lol:

Bardet meanwhile ... #vintage !