Is UAE Over the Top?

[jono]

Should Vine and Narvaez riding away really be all that surprising given the sad sack start list at TDU?

 

[ashhutch1997]

Should Vine and Narvaez riding away really be all that surprising given the sad sack start list at TDU?

Yeah tbf it's a pretty poor, it's just funny.

 

[AlpRaid]

Should Vine and Narvaez riding away really be all that surprising given the sad sack start list at TDU?

A Ben O’Connor who had targeted the race being dropped off the wheel easily on a climb by Narvaez…?

We are in for a very long season.

 

[Mayomaniac]

The satanic humiliation rituals have already begun for the year

The real humilation ritual is when their top riders get the "female influencer in Dubai" experience when they have to meet the team owners over there...

 

[AlpRaid]

View: https://youtube.com/shorts/UyLFaAnuA1o?si=JkK2hu5zJw_ev3D5


Interesting…

 

[red_flanders]

Still can remember Jan Ullrich and others carrying extra kilos and setting up spring schedule to race themselves into shape for later races. Everyone sort of acknowledged that coming in overweight, out of shape was how it was done.

Not sure one of the most extreme examples of arriving unfit is convincing if one seeks to make the case that the entire peloton acted a certain way. Ullrich was notable for how different (and frustrating) his approach was, not for being the standard bearer for how an entire era trained.

Hardly the behavior of "everyone".

 

[HashRouge]

View: https://youtube.com/shorts/UyLFaAnuA1o?si=JkK2hu5zJw_ev3D5


Interesting…

Ah this must be what they were previewing on Friday's podcast for the After Dark segment. I can't afford the subscription, so I wondered what it was going to be about (they mentioned doping). I can't decide how bad of a look I think this is for Marc Soler, given that his father seems to be an amateur athlete himself. I'm inclined to think that if UAE have a doping program, it's a bit more centralised than Marc Soler's dad being the link. Not to say that this means they don't have a doping program, just that this probably isn't it.

 

[AmRacer]

Not yet this season.

 

[Red Rick]

Ah this must be what they were previewing on Friday's podcast for the After Dark segment. I can't afford the subscription, so I wondered what it was going to be about (they mentioned doping). I can't decide how bad of a look I think this is for Marc Soler, given that his father seems to be an amateur athlete himself. I'm inclined to think that if UAE have a doping program, it's a bit more centralised than Marc Soler's dad being the link. Not to say that this means they don't have a doping program, just that this probably isn't it.

It doesn't.

But it shows how absolutely deeply imbedded doping is that an amateur athlete couldn't be *** not to use doping while his son was the top team and it could cause some serious PR issues to get busted.

For athletes, doping isn't this big decision, it's completely casual.