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Fearless Greg Lemond said:Cycling is sooooooo healthy:
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Biafra racing.
With Knees being the exception, no racer in my area looks anything like him. How do you rate the actual chances for somebody to become TdF participant?Dazed and Confused said:Crazy.
Who in the right mind wants their children involved in a sport where the top man looks like this?
Froomstrong said:From this article:
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/froome-dismisses-vayers-power-estimates
"Interpreting Froome's improvement against the watch in recent years is no simple matter either. Prior to the 2011 Tour de Suisse, Froome had never finished in the top 10 in a time trial in a WorldTour event, yet a little over two years later, the 28-year-old put two minutes into his overall rivals in a 33-kilometre time trial at the Tour de France."
As others as stated, the combination of ITT and fast ascents, within days of each other, make me draw the simple conclusion - he is not clean.
murali said:i think Sky may ask him to slow down, just to get away from doping allegations
decent hygiene thoFroomstrong said:From this article:
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/froome-dismisses-vayers-power-estimates
"Interpreting Froome's improvement against the watch in recent years is no simple matter either. Prior to the 2011 Tour de Suisse, Froome had never finished in the top 10 in a time trial in a WorldTour event, yet a little over two years later, the 28-year-old put two minutes into his overall rivals in a 33-kilometre time trial at the Tour de France."
As others as stated, the combination of ITT and fast ascents, within days of each other, make me draw the simple conclusion - he is not clean.
Like if the whole peloton except Froome didn't train or didn't have the same hi-tech equipment.Puckfiend said:I love this from Veloclinic:
Froome’s 6.5 watts per kg is a doped fueled fantasy
The sellers of training will tell you “its the training". The sellers of equipment will tell you “its the equipment". The sellers of dope will tell you “there is no dope".
blackcat said:yeah, i'm right with you. if ever there was a race you could win with only 7 including a hairline fracture of the hip, this is it.
but someone needs to ask the question of the gutless brad wiggins. you werent given a knighthood cos you were gutless. man up, play the team game, and pay froome back.
murali said:i think Sky may ask him to slow down, just to get away from doping allegations
Fearless Greg Lemond said:Cycling is sooooooo healthy:
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Biafra racing.
Fearless Greg Lemond said:Cycling is sooooooo healthy:
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Biafra racing.
Galic Ho said:Why should Wiggins risk losing everything he gained last year, to come back for this joke of a Tour?
Wiggins knew Froome was gunning for this Tour and he knew what measures he'd take to get there dope wise. EXTREME. So why put himself alongside that? Why risk everything? Better to act as he always has...self interest.
Also, have you considered BC that Wiggins leeway to push the ABP was over? That he had a time limit and knew the gig was over? That he'd pushed too far so to speak?
yeah, aleksandr solzhenitsyn won a nobel writing guleg archipelago-uphill fastAlphabet said:Wow. He looks like a P.O.W.![]()
blackcat said:numbers are only gonna lend to confimation bias anyhow.
murali said:Tactical mistake. I got the point.
If Froome had gone into red in that windy flat stage, then that might just be his natural level. You can never plan for stages like tht. It felt as if Froome and his teammates hadn't 'planned' for such a contingency.
blackcat said:well, he is not called the angriest man in the peloton for nuffin.
in Tour of California on one of the climbs Robbie Hunter got in a tiff with Popovich. And Popo was a golden gloves champion in school. that would be a fist fight i would pay to see. no julich and blijlevens handbags at 10 paces.
oh, hunter alan. the speedos crowd can get screwed.
spencer smith>alan hunter
Ripper said:Hunter Allen helped train S2? Was S2 popped or suspicious of anything?
Dazed and Confused said:Crazy.
Who in the right mind wants their children involved in a sport where the top man looks like this?
cocteau_ireland said:They should put minimum weight restrictions on the riders not the bikes.