Teams & Riders Froome Talk Only

[TheSpud]

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This is somewhat off topic, but anyone else find it amusing that the Dawg continues being referred to as 'Kenyan born' whilst almost no one knows Sir Brad was born in Belgium?

I find brits to be some of the most patriotic people in the world so it's a bit strange they keep bringing up the Kenya part and that Dawg doesn't have a knighthood yet.

My guess is it's because they need to keep fueling that "exotic" background as part of the Myth of the Dawg.

Dont really know why but i'd guess its maybe because he spent 18 years in Kenya & SA and still has the accent. Wiggins only spent about 3 years in Belgium (I forget now) before moving to London - and he doesnt have a foreign accent.

 

[Farcanal]

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This is somewhat off topic, but anyone else find it amusing that the Dawg continues being referred to as 'Kenyan born' whilst almost no one knows Sir Brad was born in Belgium?

It's not remotely amusing. It's just factual. Plenty of people in UK know that Wiggins was born in Ghent, many remember his dad racing there and in the UK. It's only a matter of luck, or not depending on your opinion, that he wasn't born in UK or Australia as his dad travelled around.

Froome was born and brought up in Kenya, and has almost never lived in the UK. Nobody in the UK would have heard of him growing up and racing here, as they have with Wiggins. The phrase 'Kenyan-born' just acknowledges this fact and his continued ties with Africa.

 

[fmk_RoI]

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Froome was eligible for a UK Passport from birth, but never utilized it until later in life.

You might want to fact check that. As far as I recall it, while he raced under a Kenyan licence, he always had a British passport.

Froome: “Although I was riding under the Kenyan flag I made it clear [to Rod Ellingworth in at the Giro delle Regione in 2007] that I had always carried a British passport and felt British. It was then tha talked about racing under the Union Jack, and we stayed in touch.”

Doug Dailey: "I just thought, I bet he's a dual nationality, I bet he's got a British passport, and he told me that he did in fact have a British and Kenyan passport."

Froome: "They think I swapped a Kenyan passport for a British one later on, but that wasn't the case. I had always had a British passport."

Also see this from the first biography, Va Va Froome

 

[Catwhoorg]

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You might want to fact check that. As far as I recall it, while he raced under a Kenyan licence, he always had a British passport.

I'll happily accept the correction.

 

[the sceptic]

“At the moment I’m in terrible condition, this is our month off, generally a month to six weeks where it can just be normal again, you can have a burger, have a beer

that doesn't sound like a marginal gain

 

[Fearless Greg Lemond]

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“At the moment I’m in terrible condition, this is our month off, generally a month to six weeks where it can just be normal again, you can have a burger, have a beer

that doesn't sound like a marginal gain

Having a burger after walking in muddy bilharzia waters in Kenya is a magical gain though.

 

[gooner]

"I am sure there will always be naysayers, but I don't spend a lot of time and energy on it. I know what I am doing is right. I do understand that with winning the Tour de France multiple times, there comes a level of responsibility, to portray the sport in a good light and show that things really have changed. And that is what we are doing.

"But how do you prove a negative? You spend the whole year training as hard as you can to be the best you can be, but when you get to that point and you destroy your opponents you are very quickly labelled a fraud, as a cheat. That is the unfortunate predicament we find ourselves in. But I certainly feel I have gone above and beyond and been outspoken about the state of the sport and the measures that the governing body has implemented, above and beyond the normal sets of regulations for doping in sport."

"Given that cycling is a very traditional sport, it is hard to bring in new technology, new ways of training, new approaches to performance," Froome continued. "I think that is where certainly Sky has challenged what teams have done traditionally. Not to say we are the only team doing it, but there are teams out there who haven't necessarily invested as heavily as we have in terms of looking at performance and how we can perform better through data, focusing on recovery, all the different elements that determine how you perform.

"It definitely feels there are teams that are playing catch up. But having said that, we don't have the perfect formula, it's something that is always evolving. We have to hopefully try stay on the front end of that and find more ways of innovating and finding more ways to prepare."

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/chris-froome-doping-suspicion-doesnt-bother-me-because-20-years-my-titles-will-still-stand-1527372?

 

[Dear Wiggo]

With "journalism" like this, who needs PR...

http://goo.gl/PVocli

 

[SeriousSam]

Wait, didn't Froome once say he wasn't involved much in the Sky Science until like 2012 or even 2013? Yet he reached his Armstrong-esque level as early as 2011 and has not further improved since according to a Sky approved analysis of post 2011 data.

Now he's talking as if SS made him the dominant winner he is. Very strange.

 

[The Hitch]

Maybe posted before, but I thought Sky not stopping for coffee breaks was one of their marginal gains.

 

[thehog]

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Maybe posted before, but I thought Sky not stopping for coffee breaks was one of their marginal gains.

They've stopped for a coffee but there's no coffee. They are simulating drinking coffee without the negative effects.

That is marginal gains!

Sky are just like anyone else in cycling. Part of it is stopping and drinking coffee and talking. That's why it's a loved sport. Not stopping is not a good idea. It becomes boring.

 

[LaFlorecita]

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Maybe posted before, but I thought Sky not stopping for coffee breaks was one of their marginal gains.

Stopping for a coffee is only a marginal pain when you are a lazy Spanish amigo

 

[pastronef]

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Maybe posted before, but I thought Sky not stopping for coffee breaks was one of their marginal gains.

They've stopped for a coffee but there's no coffee. They are simulating drinking coffee without the negative effects.

That is marginal gains!

Sky are just like anyone else in cycling. Part of it is stopping and drinking coffee and talking. That's why it's a loved sport. Not stopping is not a good idea. It becomes boring.

I never stop for a coffee in winter. In summer if I stop I drink it fast, standing, and ride away (I pay it too, yes )
never understood how people can stop and sit down in the middle of a ride in winter, and then ride again.

maybe I should begin to use this marginal gain

 

[JackRabbitSlims]

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Maybe posted before, but I thought Sky not stopping for coffee breaks was one of their marginal gains.

They've stopped for a coffee but there's no coffee. They are simulating drinking coffee without the negative effects.

That is marginal gains!

Sky are just like anyone else in cycling. Part of it is stopping and drinking coffee and talking. That's why it's a loved sport. Not stopping is not a good idea. It becomes boring.

I never stop for a coffee in winter. In summer if I stop I drink it fast, standing, and ride away (I pay it too, yes )
never understood how people can stop and sit down in the middle of a ride in winter, and then ride again.

maybe I should begin to use this marginal gain

its a nice way to end a ride.....not half way through

our bunch rides start and finish at the shop....nice cafe right around the corner....sit and talk smack with your riding buddies over a (insert favourite coffee of choice here)

 

[thehog]

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Maybe posted before, but I thought Sky not stopping for coffee breaks was one of their marginal gains.

They've stopped for a coffee but there's no coffee. They are simulating drinking coffee without the negative effects.

That is marginal gains!

Sky are just like anyone else in cycling. Part of it is stopping and drinking coffee and talking. That's why it's a loved sport. Not stopping is not a good idea. It becomes boring.

I never stop for a coffee in winter. In summer if I stop I drink it fast, standing, and ride away (I pay it too, yes )
never understood how people can stop and sit down in the middle of a ride in winter, and then ride again.

maybe I should begin to use this marginal gain

its a nice way to end a ride.....not half way through

our bunch rides start and finish at the shop....nice cafe right around the corner....sit and talk smack with your riding buddies over a (insert favourite coffee of choice here)

Must stop, check out clothes. Take off helmet, put on sunglasses, cap. Order coffee. Talk about how many miles you do on your own outside the group. Adjust heart rate strap. Check Strava stats. Adjust gilet. Put on neck tie. Talking about leg shaving. Chamois cream application. Drink coffee. Order another coffee. Drink coffee. Talk about weather, bike, new equipment. Ride home.

 

[pastronef]

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Must stop, check out clothes. Take off helmet, put on sunglasses, cap. Order coffee. Talk about how many miles you do on your own outside the group. Adjust heart rate strap. Check Strava stats. Adjust gilet. Put on neck tie. Talking about leg shaving. Chamois cream application. Drink coffee. Order another coffee. Drink coffee. Talk about weather, bike, new equipment. Ride home.

nah, when you ride you ride. no time for that
and if possible the loop should go clockwise, always right turns, not stopping to turn left and slow down your average speed

 

[Beech Mtn]

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Maybe posted before, but I thought Sky not stopping for coffee breaks was one of their marginal gains.

They've stopped for a coffee but there's no coffee. They are simulating drinking coffee without the negative effects.

That is marginal gains!

Sky are just like anyone else in cycling. Part of it is stopping and drinking coffee and talking. That's why it's a loved sport. Not stopping is not a good idea. It becomes boring.

I never stop for a coffee in winter. In summer if I stop I drink it fast, standing, and ride away (I pay it too, yes )
never understood how people can stop and sit down in the middle of a ride in winter, and then ride again.

maybe I should begin to use this marginal gain

its a nice way to end a ride.....not half way through

our bunch rides start and finish at the shop....nice cafe right around the corner....sit and talk smack with your riding buddies over a (insert favourite coffee of choice here)

Must stop, check out Sky replica kit. Take off Kask helmet, put on Oakley sunglasses, Rapha cap. Order coffee. Talk about how many miles you do on your own outside the group. Adjust heart rate strap. Check Strava stats. Check David Millar's twitter account. Adjust Rapha gilet. Put on neck tie. Talking about leg shaving. Chamois cream application. Carefully groom Wiggo-esque sideburns. Drink coffee. Order another coffee. Drink coffee. Talk about weather, Pinarello bike, Paul Weller, the latest David Walsh book, the genius of Sir Dave Brailsford, new equipment, marginal gains, whether you ought to purchase a motor home to bring to the group ride next week, whether your kid has a shot at getting into Gordonstoun. Ride home.

Fixed that for you.

 

[pastronef]

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Must stop, check out Sky replica kit. Take off Kask helmet, put on Oakley sunglasses, Rapha cap. Order coffee. Talk about how many miles you do on your own outside the group. Adjust heart rate strap. Check Strava stats. Check David Millar's twitter account. Adjust Rapha gilet. Put on neck tie. Talking about leg shaving. Chamois cream application. Carefully groom Wiggo-esque sideburns. Drink coffee. Order another coffee. Drink coffee. Talk about weather, Pinarello bike, Paul Weller, the latest David Walsh book, the genius of Sir Dave Brailsford, new equipment, marginal gains, whether you ought to purchase a motor home to bring to the group ride next week, whether your kid has a shot at getting into Gordonstoun. Ride home.

Fixed that for you.

in this case you let him talk he's the bald rider on the right

 

[thehog]

Must stop, check out Sky replica kit. Take off Kask helmet, put on Oakley sunglasses, Rapha cap. Order coffee. Talk about how many miles you do on your own outside the group. Adjust heart rate strap. Check Strava stats. Check David Millar's twitter account. Adjust Rapha gilet. Put on neck tie. Talking about leg shaving. Chamois cream application. Carefully groom Wiggo-esque sideburns. Drink coffee. Order another coffee. Drink coffee. Talk about weather, Pinarello bike, Paul Weller, the latest David Walsh book, the genius of Sir Dave Brailsford, new equipment, marginal gains, whether you ought to purchase a motor home to bring to the group ride next week, whether your kid has a shot at getting into Gordonstoun. Ride home.

Brilliant! Sheer brilliance!

 

[SeriousSam]

lol

 

[the sceptic]

Must stop, check out Sky replica kit. Take off Kask helmet, put on Oakley sunglasses, Rapha cap. Order coffee. Talk about how many miles you do on your own outside the group. Adjust heart rate strap. Check Strava stats. Check David Millar's twitter account. Adjust Rapha gilet. Put on neck tie. Talking about leg shaving. Chamois cream application. Carefully groom Wiggo-esque sideburns. Drink coffee. Order another coffee. Drink coffee. Talk about weather, Pinarello bike, Paul Weller, the latest David Walsh book, the genius of Sir Dave Brailsford, new equipment, marginal gains, whether you ought to purchase a motor home to bring to the group ride next week, whether your kid has a shot at getting into Gordonstoun. Ride home. Log into clinic account #50. Post in smug tone that there is no evidence. Feel superior to clinic regulars. Get banned. Repeat.

Brilliant! Sheer brilliance!

added a little bit there if you don't mind

 

[thehog]

Must stop, check out Sky replica kit. Take off Kask helmet, put on Oakley sunglasses, Rapha cap. Order coffee. Talk about how many miles you do on your own outside the group. Adjust heart rate strap. Check Strava stats. Check David Millar's twitter account. Adjust Rapha gilet. Put on neck tie. Talking about leg shaving. Chamois cream application. Carefully groom Wiggo-esque sideburns. Drink coffee. Order another coffee. Drink coffee. Talk about weather, Pinarello bike, Paul Weller, the latest David Walsh book, the genius of Sir Dave Brailsford, new equipment, marginal gains, whether you ought to purchase a motor home to bring to the group ride next week, whether your kid has a shot at getting into Gordonstoun. Ride home. Log into clinic account #50. Post in smug tone that there is no evidence. Feel superior to clinic regulars. Get banned. Repeat.

Brilliant! Sheer brilliance!

added a little bit there if you don't mind

Lol!

Then log into BikeRetard & talk about Wiggins 47th book about himself. Then pop over to BotRooms & talk about how amazing JV is. Then come back to the Clinic & report multiple posts in an attempt to get people banned.

 

[pastronef]

Must stop, check out Sky replica kit. Take off Kask helmet, put on Oakley sunglasses, Rapha cap. Order coffee. Talk about how many miles you do on your own outside the group. Adjust heart rate strap. Check Strava stats. Check David Millar's twitter account. Adjust Rapha gilet. Put on neck tie. Talking about leg shaving. Chamois cream application. Carefully groom Wiggo-esque sideburns. Drink coffee. Order another coffee. Drink coffee. Talk about weather, Pinarello bike, Paul Weller, the latest David Walsh book, the genius of Sir Dave Brailsford, new equipment, marginal gains, whether you ought to purchase a motor home to bring to the group ride next week, whether your kid has a shot at getting into Gordonstoun. Ride home. Log into clinic account #50. Post in smug tone that there is no evidence. Feel superior to clinic regulars. Get banned. Repeat.

Brilliant! Sheer brilliance!

added a little bit there if you don't mind

Lol!

Then log into BikeRetard & talk about Wiggins 47th book about himself. Then pop over to BotRooms & talk about how amazing JV is. Then come back to the Clinic & report multiple posts in an attempt to get people banned.

as maybe one of the 7 or 8 Italian SKY fans, I am glad I dont do those things
...oh *, the Oakley's yes!

 

[TomLPC]

Must stop, check out Sky replica kit. Take off Kask helmet, put on Oakley sunglasses, Rapha cap. Order coffee. Talk about how many miles you do on your own outside the group. Adjust heart rate strap. Check Strava stats. Check David Millar's twitter account. Adjust Rapha gilet. Put on neck tie. Talking about leg shaving. Chamois cream application. Carefully groom Wiggo-esque sideburns. Drink coffee. Order another coffee. Drink coffee. Talk about weather, Pinarello bike, Paul Weller, the latest David Walsh book, the genius of Sir Dave Brailsford, new equipment, marginal gains, whether you ought to purchase a motor home to bring to the group ride next week, whether your kid has a shot at getting into Gordonstoun. Ride home. Log into clinic account #50. Post in smug tone that there is no evidence. Feel superior to clinic regulars. Get banned. Repeat.

Brilliant! Sheer brilliance!

added a little bit there if you don't mind

The original post was decent but the bolded addition betrays a quite worrying lack of self awareness

 

[djpbaltimore]

Must stop, check out Sky replica kit. Take off Kask helmet, put on Oakley sunglasses, Rapha cap. Order coffee. Talk about how many miles you do on your own outside the group. Adjust heart rate strap. Check Strava stats. Check David Millar's twitter account. Adjust Rapha gilet. Put on neck tie. Talking about leg shaving. Chamois cream application. Carefully groom Wiggo-esque sideburns. Drink coffee. Order another coffee. Drink coffee. Talk about weather, Pinarello bike, Paul Weller, the latest David Walsh book, the genius of Sir Dave Brailsford, new equipment, marginal gains, whether you ought to purchase a motor home to bring to the group ride next week, whether your kid has a shot at getting into Gordonstoun. Ride home. Log into clinic account #50. Post in smug tone that there is no evidence. Feel superior to clinic regulars. Get banned. Repeat.

Brilliant! Sheer brilliance!

added a little bit there if you don't mind

The original post was decent but the bolded addition betrays a quite worrying lack of self awareness

Game. Set. Match. +1