Julian Alaphilippe

[Brullnux]

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JA is in the driver's seat for the biggest win in his career, It's nice to see fresh faces rising to the top.

Not in this way though. Winning everything from sprints to ITTs. And that Rio performance was pretty ridiculous too.

 

[Benotti69]

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Why was the testosterone patches made such a big deal? Haven't really followed news. Even Riccardo Ricco wouldn't be stupid enough to use test nowdays, you can't even micro dose it in any good way

If the President of your sporting Union was part of the setting up of your professional team, ran the same national union and was part of the team, has vested interests, you can pretty much use anything! who gets tested?

Cookson such a joke when it comes to the serious issues of the sport and not just doping.....

 

[Strange Loop]

QS has always been high on my list of suspicious teams; if they were a GC-team, instead of classics specialists, then they would've probably received a lot more attention.

QS, if there's a team that is old school, it's them.

 

[The Hegelian]

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QS has always been high on my list of suspicious teams; if they were a GC-team, instead of classics specialists, then they would've probably received a lot more attention.

QS, if there's a team that is old school, it's them.

Yep, it's just a given. And Allaphillipe is also just a given. Some of the other young talented Frenchies I could keep an open mind on; but JA is exactly as you say - old school.

 

[fmk_RoI]

The funny thing about QS and doping is that PL claims that it was doping stopped his riders from ever really having a chance at the GC in GTs. As if, like Fabs, he believed there was no doping in the Classics. (I'll dig out the quote later, I think I have it lying around somewhere.) Also worth pointing out that there are plenty of stories about doping at PL's teams. And there are plenty of stories of PL being awarded damages in consequence of those stories. So, tread carefully...

Edit - that quote:

"With the new UCI points system, the Classics riders are actually discriminated against. But if you look at the podiums of the big tours in the past, there was always some trouble, and I didn't want to be involved in that. But times are changing, and with the biological passport system, I think it's increasingly possible to ride well in the major tours clean."

 

[L'arriviste]

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The funny thing about QS and doping is that PL claims that it was doping stopped his riders from ever really having a chance at the GC in GTs. As if, like Fabs, he believed there was no doping in the Classics. (I'll dig out the quote later, I think I have it lying around somewhere.) Also worth pointing out that there are plenty of stories about doping at PL's teams. And there are plenty of stories of PL being awarded damages in consequence of those stories. So, tread carefully...

Edit - that quote:

"With the new UCI points system, the Classics riders are actually discriminated against. But if you look at the podiums of the big tours in the past, there was always some trouble, and I didn't want to be involved in that. But times are changing, and with the biological passport system, I think it's increasingly possible to ride well in the major tours clean."

The main target of the Het Laatste Nieuws exposé was Lefevere himself and that is an important distinction to make when considering the outcome: the allegations made were many and varied but the finished picture was intended as a portrait rather than a landscape.