Re: Re:
King Boonen said:
Ramon Koran said:
King Boonen said:
Fearless Greg Lemond said:
Still not blocked by Froome, good, so I can read those very interesting tweets about:
I hope my boy loves lions as much as I do! ❤️☺️ #YellowJersey #TDF2015
too bad Walsh blocked me though, he is pure comedy gold
##blocked
what an hypocritical moron, it really is astonishing this guy is being paid for his job
Ramon Koran said:
The fact is although i agree that walsh has said some dumb stuff, it is not by trolling him on Twitter that you are going to achieve anything. On the contrary you make yourselfs apear bitter, ridiculous. Maybe if you could come up with some strong evidence to show that walsh is lying, or talking rubbish you would be taken more seriously.
That's exactly what Fearless Greg LeMond has done, he's not trolling Walsh at all, he pointed out his hypocrisy and asked him to clarify his position. Result? Blocked by Walsh.
Where does he point de out his hypocrisy? Walsh answers the question with à reasonable answer "Contador is weaker in the TT", yet FGL comes back talking about climbing. Had walsh come back and said "he is climbing slower" then yes the answer by FGL would have been reasonable because walsh would be lying, but here walsh is starting a fact.
It seems to me FGL, couldnt accept that walsh had made à valid point.
Walsh accused Contador over his climbing speed in '07. FGL pointed out that climbing speeds in '13 were the same as '07 yet Walsh thinks the riders, notably Froome, are clean. FGL was not asking about Contador or TT speed, he was asking about that big African elephant in the room...
You have fallen for Walsh's misdirection I'm afraid. He knew full well what FGL was getting at, that's why he blocked him.
Not just 2007. In 2012 while Vaughters was doing the "Mission Accomplished: Doping has been defeated for ever" Victory Tour, celebrating how allegedly slower times in a few gts in 2011 and 2012 proved cycling was clean, some of it rubbed of on Walsh. Walsh himself did a talk in late 2012 in London with the Times and an audience, mostly promotional for seven deadly sins and about Armstrong. Of course he was also asked about Sky and modern cycling. He said that one of the reasons he believed the sport was clean now, at least at the Tour, was because at the 2012 Tour and Wiggins et al, were slower than the early 2000's.
Of course its not even strictly true that the 2012 Tour was slower. They had no mtfs so its difficult to measure, but Peyresoudes was as fast as 07, both wiggos and froomes w/kg according to Ammitroyaly were higher than some of Lances tours, lower than others, and the tts were fast.
Anyway, its irrelevant if 2012 Tour was slower or not. Walsh claimed it was and used it as an argument for why cycling is trustworthy now.
Then 8 months later in July 2013 he is first on the scene post Ax-3 dismissing as ignorant the idea that you can use climbing speeds as proof.
And I remember Alex Oates on twitter, who as I recall was a tweeter that was generally quite defensive of Sky, at least on the doping question, linking to some Walsh interview that day where Walsh was furious that people weren't simply taking his word for it. He saw himself as the world authority on doping and had thought that by vouching for Sky all doubt would be forever erased.
Facebook
Twitter
Instagram