How will Jens Voigt prepare his hour record attempt ?

[Gregga]

Will he go 'pan y agua', dope very carefully or go full *** ?

 

[ralphbert]

Bag up big time. Big boost and untraceable. No need to keep the passport in check

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Blood and epo doping no doubt. UCI seems to have the idea of an old man with zero track pedigree, very limited ITT palmares to get his name in the hour record history books.

The concept is pathetic.

 

[Bumeington]

My guess, 390W, 51.5km, no doping needed

 

[Granville57]

I suspect that Jens will do what he usually does.

Jens out front!
Jens driving hard!
Jens in the lead!
Jens all by himself!

I hope that the event is broadcast and the Phil & Paul do the commentary. They'd hardly be able to contain themselves. It will be all Jens all the time. Just think about how times they could say Jens' name or mention his age!

Talk about a world record!

In the end though, I suspect that Jens will get what he's usually gotten: He'll come up short. Like most of his on-road antics, I doubt he's doing this for the win, but rather for the show. No need to take any risks. It'll be as clean as Jens has ever been, however clean that is.

 

[deValtos]

I hope that the event is broadcast and the Phil & Paul do the commentary.

I know Eurosport are showing it, they've allocated 1hr45 mins for the show with a bunch of 15 mins previews earlier on in the day.

 

[thrawn]

I suspect that Jens will do what he usually does.

Jens out front!
Jens driving hard!
Jens in the lead!
Jens all by himself!

I hope that the event is broadcast and the Phil & Paul do the commentary. They'd hardly be able to contain themselves. It will be all Jens all the time. Just think about how times they could say Jens' name or mention his age!

Talk about a world record!

In the end though, I suspect that Jens will get what he's usually gotten: He'll come up short. Like most of his on-road antics, I doubt he's doing this for the win, but rather for the show. No need to take any risks. It'll be as clean as Jens has ever been, however clean that is.

I wonder how often he'd dig into his suitcase of courage?

 

[Granville57]

I know Eurosport are showing it, they've allocated 1hr45 mins for the show

Does mean the Jens is just going keep on riding, and riding, and...

 

[Stephen_M]

Once he finds out that it's actually laps of the track which are used to calculate the distance covered, he'll need to change his strategy anyway! He's always a complete mess on the bike and will probably being doing an extra 2 or 3m per lap...

 

[the sceptic]

I almost forgot but he was pretty good at ITT back in the day.. clean of course.

 

[Gung Ho Gun]

"Team: CSC" really says it all

 

[Granville57]

I almost forgot but he was pretty good at ITT back in the day.. clean of course.

2005 TdF Stage 1

Clean as a whistle.

1 Zabriskie David Csc Usa 20' 51"
2 Armstrong Lance Dsc Usa 00' 02"
3 Vinokourov Alexandre Tmo Kaz 00' 53"
4 Hincapie George Dsc Usa 00' 57"
5 Bodrogi Laszlo C.a Hun 00' 59"
6 Landis Floyd Pho Usa 01' 02"
7 Cancellara Fabian Fas Sui 01' 02"
8 Voigt Jens Csc Ger 01' 04"
9 Karpets Vladimir Iba Rus 01' 05"
10 Gonzalez Galdeano Igor Lsw Esp 01' 06"
11 Julich Bobby Csc Usa 01' 07"
12 Ullrich Jan Tmo Ger 01' 08"
13 Gutierrez José Enrique Pho Esp 01' 12"
14 Leipheimer Levi Gst Usa 01' 13"
15 Rich Michael Gst Ger 01' 13"
16 Rubiera José Luis Dsc Esp 01' 16"
17 Popovych Yaroslav Dsc Ukr 01' 18"
18 Mc Gee Bradley Fdj Aus 01' 24"
19 Wauters Marc Rab Bel 01' 25"
20 Basso Ivan Csc Ita 01' 26"

 

[kingjr]

Tour of Germany 2006

1. Jens Voigt (CSC) 45min 3sec
2. Laszlo Bodrogi (Credit Agricole) 1min 3sec
3. Sebastian Lang (Gerolsteiner) 1min 4sec
4. Alexandre Vinokourov (Astana) 1min 5sec
5. Levi Leipheimer (Gerolsgteiner) 1min 14sec

 

[blackcat]

Blood and epo doping no doubt. UCI seems to have the idea of an old man with zero track pedigree, very limited ITT palmares to get his name in the hour record history books.

The concept is pathetic.

not right. When the GP des NAtions was the defacto World Champs tt, about 65, 70 km, Jens was always up there with the podium, may have even won it. This was about 2000 era, up to middle of the decade, when he was Gan/CA, and that Russian (or Soviet rider, might have been Belarussian) the guy who won the two chronos in the Tour circa 2008 at High Road. That guy.

My memory is a little hazy without google now, this is when Libertine Seguros usually offers me the generosity of her prodigious memory/record.

I hope I am not getting the two-up tt conflated with the default worlds chrono. I know dekker won it as an u23 with the Skil rider who lived in Australia in the offseason.

Jens would always win the Criterium whatever it is called in France every year, on the back of that tt plus one selective stage. He was unbeatable with the average field that they would have every year. was it Criterium National?

 

[blackcat]

just chanting to himself

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how about, shut the f up Jens and tell your BS walking

 

[the sceptic]

Tour of Germany 2006

1. Jens Voigt (CSC) 45min 3sec
2. Laszlo Bodrogi (Credit Agricole) 1min 3sec
3. Sebastian Lang (Gerolsteiner) 1min 4sec
4. Alexandre Vinokourov (Astana) 1min 5sec
5. Levi Leipheimer (Gerolsgteiner) 1min 14sec

ah, the well known extra power of riding at home. not to be confused with the power of the yellow jersey.

 

[More Strides than Rides]

Since he announced his retirement, I'm sure he had less heat from anti-doping than ever before. Further, its easier to get around the passport given that it is a 1-day effort, and it's even then it's such a different physiological test that any anomaly can be easily explained/lawyered away.

He will go full alien, like he has Alzheimers and can't remember its not 1999 anymore.

 

[blackcat]

Since he announced his retirement, I'm sure he had less heat from anti-doping than ever before. Further, its easier to get around the passport given that it is a 1-day effort, and it's even then it's such a different physiological test that any anomaly can be easily explained/lawyered away.

He will go full alien, like he has Alzheimers and can't remember its not 1999 anymore.

yeah, all the dope he buried by the roadside in 1998 on that Gan team bus of Roger Legeay and Jonny Vee 47, its gonna be time to use that $hit.

USPS flushed their dope down the bus' bathroom, but Legeay was more tactical and buried it under Jens' advice.

Now it when you go searching for that pot of treasure and reap the rewards. its genius. pure genius. well done jens. well done legs

 

[lllludo]

Ego

Jens has a huge ego and he wants to leave a trace in the history of cycling.
Last year he was about to leave discretely when the French Senate was about to drop names. After he learnt his tests were not positive he decided to come back for another year to go on a farewell tour and to get his glorious exit.
Nothing is going to stop him to sustain 400W during 1 hour.

So it will probably be "shut-up blood passport"

 

[Dazed and Confused]

not right. When the GP des NAtions was the defacto World Champs tt, about 65, 70 km, Jens was always up there with the podium, may have even won it. This was about 2000 era, up to middle of the decade, when he was Gan/CA, and that Russian (or Soviet rider, might have been Belarussian) the guy who won the two chronos in the Tour circa 2008 at High Road. That guy.

My memory is a little hazy without google now, this is when Libertine Seguros usually offers me the generosity of her prodigious memory/record.

I hope I am not getting the two-up tt conflated with the default worlds chrono. I know dekker won it as an u23 with the Skil rider who lived in Australia in the offseason.

Jens would always win the Criterium whatever it is called in France every year, on the back of that tt plus one selective stage. He was unbeatable with the average field that they would have every year. was it Criterium National?

Hell even Thomas Dekker offers a better ITT palmares from this period.

And he only got 2-3 years at the "top".

 

[doperhopper]

How about "Jensie option" (instead of Vino): Crazy suicidal breakaway caught again (but decent camera time).

 

[Gregga]

Jens has a huge ego and he wants to leave a trace in the history of cycling.
Last year he was about to leave discretely when the French Senate was about to drop names. After he learnt his tests were not positive he decided to come back for another year to go on a farewell tour and to get his glorious exit.
Nothing is going to stop him to sustain 400W during 1 hour.

So it will probably be "shut-up blood passport"

400W would bring him close to the 53k mark assuming a good 0.20-0.21 SCx.
That's a lot, Wiggins or Luigi will have to work hard to beat him !

But it's not only about the legs, I doubt he'll be easy riding on a track, remember Indurain, even with his 510w (estimated by Padilla, 6.5+ w/kg ), was ridiculous when Rominger beat him twice.

 

[Gavandope]

nano dosing EPO with mini BB's to get him on the ragged edge of the passport red line plus the usual corticoids etc. The full Monty

 

[D-Queued]

Is this going to be like watching a repeat of Geraldo and Al Capone's vault?

The program is now perhaps best known for the vault being ultimately empty except for debris.

I almost forgot but he was pretty good at ITT back in the day.. clean of course.

Wow, is that ever a rogues gallery of notorious dopers. Nice company.

Dave.

 

[roundabout]

Nah, why risk a full program when a next serious attempt will beat him anyway.

49.7 is the target to beat, I think he can do 50ish without oding the preparation