badboygolf16v said:
These were the kind of smoke screen excuses that used to get rolled out back in the days when medicine ruled... Anyone a little sceptical of CVV?
Yes, and no.
I'm moderately sensitive to gluten. I can eat some of it, but if I eat a lot, I'll end up with digestive issues, no matter how much exercise I get. And I don't have blood sugar problems, nor does diabetes run in my family.
However, some of the unreal claims seem really...well unreal. I think BroDeal pretty much nailed my skepticism. These kinds of stories have been abound forever. Bugno was actually fairly good before his wheat deal, but that's a prefect example. He went from pretty good, to double world champion and Giro winner when EPO arrived. Tony Rominger went from pretty good to nearly knocking off Indurain in the 1993 Tour after he was treated for his "allergies" (though he did actually do extreme altitude training in June of that year). There's all kinds of stories like this. Sports psychologists, etc. Remember Lance's excuse after being caught visiting Dr. Ferrari? He was training for the Hour Record (something he never even brought up again).
CVV may be on a clean
er team, but look at the guy's past as BroDeal notes. CVV did point something out though, he said last year the speed on the climbs was slower than in 2007, and that year was slightly slower than previous years. Times reflect that. But still, it's slight. We're not talking about going back to as "slow" as guys like Herrera, Delgado, or Robert Millar climbed.