Most memorable doped perfomances?

[patricknd]

Link please?

i knew that would stir someone up

 

[Hugh Januss]

i knew that would stir someone up

I was pretty sure that was why you trolled it out there.

 

[patricknd]

I was pretty sure that was why you trolled it out there.

seemed too calm around here.

 

[bobs nob]

Easy.

2006 Tdf Stage 17. Next question.

 

[bobs nob]

....1989.....

Is that when Lance was still doing triathlons? He wasn't even 16 before the season ended. That's a pretty harsh accusation, even for the Ped-messiah....

wuchoo talkin' bout willis?

 

[hrotha]

If I'm recalling right they'd lock up the podium for most of the 'monument' spring classics, then disappear for the rest of the year.

The award needs to be broken into two categories. One-day monuments and stage races. Mapei wins the one-day award.

Mapei had two separate "blocks": the Italo-Belgian block, with guys like Museeuw, Peeters, Ballerini or Tafi, who focused on the classics and which we could said was formed in 1995 when the Belgian part of GB-MG was absorbed, and the Spanish block, riders like Rominger, Olano and Escartín who entered the team when Clas was absorbed in 1994 by the up to that point pretty tiny Italian team Mapei. This Spanish block left in 1997 and was replaced by Colnago's guys from Panaria: Tonkov, Camenzind, Faresin, etc.

Point being, the Italo-Belgian block, the classics guys, was never meant to contend the GTs, that's what the Spanish and Colnago blocks were there for. Mapei certainly didn't disappear during the rest of the year.

 

[Escarabajo]

Ivan Basso winning the 2006 Giro, a brutally hard one mind you, by 9 minutes. I mean come on!

What about the "Buffalo" (José Enrique Gutiérrez) in the same Giro.

 

[craig1985]

What about the "Buffalo" (José Enrique Gutiérrez) in the same Giro.

I said that a few posts after that

 

[Escarabajo]

I said that a few posts after that

That's what I get for not reading the whole thread before posting.

 

[craig1985]

That's what I get for not reading the whole thread before posting.

Happens to the best of us

 

[SiAp1984]

It is interesting to see that so many on this thread have chosen the 2006 TDF stage 17 as their most memorable doped performance. I still find it to be one of the best single days of racing in the history of the Tour. While undoubtedly Floyd was working with fresh new bag of blood, I have no reason to believe that his rivals weren't equally prepared for the day. But his effort, which was impressive, was not really super human.

For me it was the panache of a previous era in cycling. He told his rivals exactly what he was going to do and dared them to follow. After 16 stages of racing in record heat, they bet that he would blowup, and he bet that he wouldn't, although I am sure that he half expected to. It was cycling poker at it's best and a type of racing we don't see enough of anymore.

Interesting thought on this certain stage. The only other times I can remember somebody tried something like this was Pantani 1998 Les deux Alps in the rain - didn't blow up but Ullrich did. Pantani trying the very same thing again 2000 against Lance on a very hot day - the stage when Armstrong bonked at the Joux Planes and Ullrich put time in him - and Pantani blew up. So it seems to work out 50%...

I remember that I - and I didn't like Landis too much - was absolutey thrilled by his performance and annoyed by the stupidity of T-Mobile and CSC for letting him go that far away. Unfortunately, on that very stage, Klöden turned out to have a very bad day. This might have been the reason for the messed-up TMO-tactics. I really believed that this attack by Landis might have been just a nice piece of work. I could not imagine that anybody would dare to dope during the Tour after what has happened 2006. Naive, I know...

 

[Cobblestoned]

Interesting thought on this certain stage. The only other times I can remember somebody tried something like this was Pantani 1998 Les deux Alps in the rain - didn't blow up but Ullrich did. Pantani trying the very same thing again 2000 against Lance on a very hot day - the stage when Armstrong bonked at the Joux Planes and Ullrich put time in him - and Pantani blew up. So it seems to work out 50%...

I remember that I - and I didn't like Landis too much - was absolutey thrilled by his performance and annoyed by the stupidity of T-Mobile and CSC for letting him go that far away. Unfortunately, on that very stage, Klöden turned out to have a very bad day. This might have been the reason for the messed-up TMO-tactics. I really believed that this attack by Landis might have been just a nice piece of work. I could not imagine that anybody would dare to dope during the Tour after what has happened 2006. Naive, I know...

Klöden didn't have the balls to disregard his DS. Big discussions going on.
This is why he lost the Tour on that Pereiro- and on that Landis-stage.

 

[SiAp1984]

Klöden didn't have the balls to disregard his DS. Big discussions going on.
This is why he lost the Tour on that Pereiro- and on that Landis-stage.

On this day, he didn't have it. He wasn't able to follow neither Sastre nor Menchov on the final climb, and he even had Rogers and Mazzoleni still with him! There is a picture with Pereiro leading those three TMOs, pacing them up the climb, Klöden suffering badly... Anyway, moments long gone.

 

[roundabout]

As far as i remember Klöden had an injury of some kind in spring of that year and there were some doubts about his form for the Tour.

 

[Mrs John Murphy]

Dertie on Etna 2011.

 

[Anonymous]

Dertie on Etna 2011.

+1..........................

 

[Señor_Contador]

+1..........................

-1

Yeah buddy!

 

[rhubroma]

Riis, Hautacam: 96

 

[andy1234]

Dertie on Etna 2011.

I haven't seeen the stage yet, but I'm hoping for something special if it made this thread.

P.S. Thanks for a post without reference to Chinese food, Scat or Gays.
P.P.S based on the above, your browser history must be something special too

 

[sartoris]

Dertie on Etna 2011.

- 1000

You must be boiling after Contador show!!!

I'm so sorry for you, especially because your whole life seems to spin around this forum and devising new ways to debase the best rider of this generation.

 

[Semper Fidelis]

Dertie on Etna 2011.

The toy pistol was able to dismantle the field at 7k out. Epic doped performance!

 

[Zweistein]

i think being stronger in the head like lance was makes him a better athlete..

The make of a person is shown in defeat not victory. If he was so much stronger in the head, what explains his behavior in the last two TDF's? One tour were he basically pulls all support from Contador and labels him a bad teammate for not waiting and taking a stage win and time out of his teammates. Another tour were and doesn't maintain enough focus to not crash into curbs and basically packs it in without ever trying to help the team. Kloden was his personal babysitter for those two tours. I would really like to know how much he was paid to sacrifice a podium spot.

 

[Mrs John Murphy]

The toy pistol was able to dismantle the field at 7k out. Epic doped performance!

It was. Up there with the Swiss Prima Donna in E3 for most epic doped performance of the season so far.

Andy - do you have a problem with gay people and the chinese then?

 

[andy1234]

It was. Up there with the Swiss Prima Donna in E3 for most epic doped performance of the season so far.

Andy - do you have a problem with gay people and the chinese then?

Nope, some of my favourite Chinese food is made by Gay people.
I appreciate you not asking me about Scat though....

 

[sniper]

At least he IS doing his best to look exhausted nowadays.

http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/giro-ditalia-his/stage-9/photos/173829