Seriously, you think that is the funny part about Walsh's Sky adventure Well I guess humor is just different..gooner said:Hilarious how no one mentions how he came to find out about JTL. It's like it never happened.
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Seriously, you think that is the funny part about Walsh's Sky adventure Well I guess humor is just different..gooner said:Hilarious how no one mentions how he came to find out about JTL. It's like it never happened.
Briant_Gumble said:My god is that serious? Threw up in my mouth at that excerpt.
the sceptic said:I must say I find it hard to believe Walsh is serious with this stuff. He is like a parody of every skybot that has visited the forum in the last year. Kerrison lives in France means they are clean? jeez. lol. Even Taxis4all would get embarrassed by writing stuff like that.
Im looking forward to see if anyone still doesnt think Walsh is on the bandwagon.
gooner said:Hilarious how no one mentions how he came to find out about JTL. It's like it never happened.
Samson777 said:Seriously, you think that is the funny part about Walsh's Sky adventure Well I guess humor is just different..
Alright, I must have misread the word hilarious then.gooner said:I wasn't referring to it being hilarious. Just funny how it's not mentioned around here. To be expected though.
the sceptic said:I must say I find it hard to believe Walsh is serious with this stuff. He is like a parody of every skybot that has visited the forum in the last year. Kerrison lives in France means they are clean? jeez. lol. Even Taxis4all would get embarrassed by writing stuff like that.
Im looking forward to see if anyone still doesnt think Walsh is on the bandwagon.
There is an arresting theatrical drama about Ventoux when the riders get to the top of the tree line and come out into the blinding light of the moonscape beyond. It is a mountain built to stage final acts. This final act begins with Froome attacking and leaving everybody for dead except Quintana. Tactically it is a master class, and illustrates how much wisdom Team Sky have been able to plant in Froome’s head these past few years. The younger, straight out of Africa, Froome would have chased down every break of the day before finding himself out of gas. Or on another day from the early years he would have looked around him, taking in all the big names, and decided his only chance was to attack from far out, when they weren’t paying much attention. They would think he was mad and do what bike riders have done since 1903: give him enough rope to hang himself. He would often get a good placing on the stage but would have emptied his tank to do so. The next day, he would sleep with the fishes. But here on Ventoux, he is calculating, waiting for the right moment. And his understanding of the perfect strategic climb is no coincidence. Froome has climbed Ventoux before. Twice..
Fearless Greg Lemond said:Holy smoke:
Fearless Greg Lemond said:Holy smoke:
gooner said:Hilarious how no one mentions how he came to find out about JTL. It's like it never happened.
thehog said:I read that Walsh tells us JTL doesn't like needles so can't be doping. And in case this is about Endura not team Sky who "are at the vanguard of anti-doping"
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the sceptic said:I must say I find it hard to believe Walsh is serious with this stuff. He is like a parody of every skybot that has visited the forum in the last year. Kerrison lives in France means they are clean? jeez. lol.
Even Taxis4all would get embarrassed by writing stuff like that.
Im looking forward to see if anyone still doesnt think Walsh is on the bandwagon.
Does Walsh even understands what he himself writes?Nevertheless a cottage industry has grown up in recent years, supplying the blogosphere with statistics which are supposed to ‘prove’ or ‘disprove’ whether a cyclist is guilty. I don’t believe the statisticians themselves set out to be conclusive, but their stats draw the rapt attention of scholars of the University of Wikipedia. If the exchanges between these crowd-sourced academics are any indication of the general comprehension of the stats, then it’s all a bit depressing. Lies. Damned lies. Statistics. You get rabid takers for each. When L’Equipe analysed eighteen climbs of Froome’s from the previous two years they discovered what, for me, was the most relevant statistic in the debate. What Froome did on Ventoux is what Froome does best. He has the ability not just to maintain tempo but to insert five-minute bursts of maximum power output. Why pay attention to just one statistic? Well, L’Equipe were comparing the performances of a single rider and isolating a small component of that rider’s performances on hills. The variables are not eliminated but they are minimised, and there is enough baseline data to make a general conclusion viable. Fred Grappe, who did the analysis, didn’t provide a ticker-tape parade proclaiming Froome’s conclusive innocence. That wasn’t his job and he hadn’t enough data for that. Grappe limited himself to a modest conclusion from the figures he was given.
burning said:Thanks to this thread, I am about to vomit for real
Chris Froome stands to the side looking out to sea like Columbus who was born here, his Tintin profile peering towards either his destiny or a good spot for the spear fishing he enjoys so much.
So Froome in a casual conversation is able to get what he wants to say across by not even saying it?"What he didn’t say but wanted you to know is that he would have his chance to win this year, no matter what. His intensity recalled what Apollo Creed said to Rocky Balboa:
thehog said:I read that Walsh tells us JTL doesn't like needles so can't be doping. And in case this is about Endura not team Sky who "are at the vanguard of anti-doping"
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Leaving aside the blatant factual inaccuracy... is Walsh saying that Froome haters are Contador fans, who are ALSO Armstrong fans? How does that work?thehog said:
Apparently Contador went down for bio passport?
Walsh sure knows his stuff!
thehog said:
Apparently Contador went down for bio passport?
Walsh sure knows his stuff!
Fearless Greg Lemond said:Holy smoke:
And his understanding of the perfect strategic climb is no coincidence. Froome has climbed Ventoux before. Twice..
hrotha said:Leaving aside the blatant factual inaccuracy... is Walsh saying that Froome haters are Contador fans, who are ALSO Armstrong fans? How does that work?
The Hitch said:More than anything else, what hits me is that Walsh is a really really poor writer. His metaphors, not only are many of them totally out of place in a "work" of non fiction that intends to make a case for the cleanliness of a cycling team, (butterflies landing on DB's shoulder, really) they are very, well,crap and feel forced, as if Walsh thinks including them will make him look like a good writer, or trying to make up the numbers for the required minimum word count.
burning said:Thanks to this thread, I am about to vomit for real