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movingtarget

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So many people get asthma but for most it's not life threatening. Some people are born with it, develop it their childhood or don't get it until they are middle aged. The drugs are so much better than they were 30 years ago. According to the evidence there is a limit on how much Salbutamol will help. The amount that Froome seems to be taking seems to be incidental. Regular asthmatics would take much more than that. Every second person seems to be puffing on an inhaler including sportsmen. But the thing with Salbutamol; is that the effect only lasts for a few hours at the most before needing more if you are still wheezing. In other words very handy for endurance athletes. For me it just regulated my breathing, in elite athletes who knows.
 
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ray j willings said:
Froome cannot be happy with todays performance. He looks ill. Sky should pull him.
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I doubt Froome is actually sick. I won't believe it unless I see some evidence. Remember last time he was supposed to be sick he still toyed with Nibali and beat Toni Martin in the ITT.

What is strange is that Dawg can no longer do the 6 month megapeak but instead goes back to being the normal Barlodawg once in a while. I wonder why. Maybe better competition means he has to prepare more like Lance?
 
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He is becoming more and more fragile..

Maybe he has been experimenting to much and his body is simply degenerating from PED abuse combined with being too skinny..?
 
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Given what we know about the effects of doping - that you can train harder for longer, and that doping probably now happens OOC, with the enhanced training effects present IC, to me it almost looks like this is the tail end of Dawg's previous doping practices.

You know.

What he has left after that harder training / racing.

Like Wiggo.

Take the doping out and their performance slowly drops away, as the enhanced training and recovery slowly but surely dwindles away, leaving them back at their normally aspirated selves.

Could be wrong but.

Why was he talking to CIRC again?
 
Saint Unix

Saint Unix

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bewildered said:
first believable performance from Froome in 4+ years
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That's not true. The way he rode the USA Pro Challenge a month or so after his TdF win, he could have sucked an orange through a straw. He was absolutely awful. Can't remember if he pulled out in the end, but he spent most of that race behind the peloton, so it wouldn't be surprising if he did.

Him being absolutely terrible now still doesn't mean anything. I expect him to go nuclear in July.
 
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Dear Wiggo said:
Given what we know about the effects of doping - that you can train harder for longer, and that doping probably now happens OOC, with the enhanced training effects present IC, to me it almost looks like this is the tail end of Dawg's previous doping practices.

You know.

What he has left after that harder training / racing.

Like Wiggo.

Take the doping out and their performance slowly drops away, as the enhanced training and recovery slowly but surely dwindles away, leaving them back at their normally aspirated selves.

Could be wrong but.

Why was he talking to CIRC again?
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Makes a lot of sense...

As for CIRC -all we know is that he for some reason was invited.. He did not come by his own initiative...

Hmm...
 
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bewildered

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Saint Unix said:
bewildered said:
first believable performance from Froome in 4+ years
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That's not true. The way he rode the USA Pro Challenge a month or so after his TdF win, he could have sucked an orange through a straw. He was absolutely awful. Can't remember if he pulled out in the end, but he spent most of that race behind the peloton, so it wouldn't be surprising if he did.

Him being absolutely terrible now still doesn't mean anything. I expect him to go nuclear in July.
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Agreed
 
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TheSpud

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the sceptic said:
LaFlorecita said:
Do you think da DAWG feels embarrassed when his "fans" tweet him this sorta stuff?

https://twitter.com/Richie6138/status/5 ... 3151841281

Richie
‏@Richie6138
@chrisfroome @letour you'd better be back! You can't let a junkie @albertocontador win

wait. is this little Richie in disguise :eek:
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Nah, Contador is the most evil doper of all time since he doped once on 2 quarks of clen.
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Don't forget the plasticiser in the blood, the Puerto link, Saiz as DS, Bruyneel as DS, Riis as DS. And you question whether Contador is the most evil doper???? You really are full of it.
 
The Hitch

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No offense fleur (and sceptic, who also does this), I know what it is like to find yourself helpless in the face of ignorance or even bullies on the internet, but seriously, some individual declaring their love for Froome/dislike for Contador on a totally different website is absolutely not relevant to this thread.

Its one thing if an actual cyclist says something on twitter, or if Mr richie12345 comes here to post his opinions (in which case he would quickly find himself in a corner against logic, with no arguments on his side), but comments from individual people like you and I belong on the places they are made.

It seems to me anyway that if you don't like what the person says the absolute dumbest thing you can do is repost it here thereby giving him an audience significantly greater than the 80 followers he has. Almost certainly he will now have more followers on twitter thanks to you. I'm guessing that is probably the opposite of what you want.

In any case while most people here agree with you that it is idiotic of someone to attack Contador for doping while lionizing Froome, you are going to have to at some point learn to sometimes deal with seeing these kinds of unpleasant to read opinions, individually, rather than bringing it here for others to hold your hand. Easiest to just not look at them, its not like they have any influence or anything, but if you can't do that then you can always confront them on the forums/ webpages where they make their comments.
 
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TheSpud

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Netserk said:
So who you have had as DS counts as evidence, but going from grupetto to Tour winner doesn't?
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I didn't say it didn't count, but I'm talking about AC. You know - having 3 of the most infamous DSs in the sport. And blood bags & training plans with his initials on that clearly can't be connected to him, in a country that had no anti doping laws ...

But you know what? I think AC is cleaner than previously, certainly in 2013 - he looked totally out of it. Really suffering and puffing - not like the past. I cant comment on 2014 since I didn't really watch the Tour after CF dropped out, and the Vuelta doesn't get as much hype as the Tour over here (although the coverage is about the same).
 
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TheSpud said:
Netserk said:
So who you have had as DS counts as evidence, but going from grupetto to Tour winner doesn't?
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I didn't say it didn't count, but I'm talking about AC. You know - having 3 of the most infamous DSs in the sport. And blood bags & training plans with his initials on that clearly can't be connected to him, in a country that had no anti doping laws ...
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Barloworld were hardly a clean team and Sky most definitely aren't. They destroyed Dr.Ferrari's teams.
 
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