Names for dope and doping!

[Don't be late Pedro]

Dinner with Virenque.

 

[Briant_Gumble]

Brown lunch bags

Has this not come up yet?

A few favourite PR terms:

Attention to detail
scientific approach
meticulous preparation

And then there are some all time favourites:

Supplements
Vitamins
Thyroid medication (curently de rigueur amongst dinstance runners)
Asthma spray (never out of fashion)
train high, race low (supposedly just referring to meters above sea level)

Lol good post but can you get a therapeutic use exemption for thyroid medication?

 

[babastooey]

Percentage Points!

Froome: I'm 100 percent the leader for the Tour de France

What do you suppose that means?

 

[Benotti69]

'In the tent'.

.....it was easier for me to spit out from the tent than spit into it.

another one from Wiggins

We do what we do......

 

[Clausfarre]

Expensive training programme (Fränk)
Edit: it was on page 1, I guess most people found that explanation laughably absurd.

 

[Mr.38%]

Winter training.

 

[doperhopper]

introducing yet another marginal gain breakthrough - the mighty energy frontsaver (and the Tour is decided)

"We took a bit of back seat coming into the climb and only took it up in the last few kilometres. We didn't waste energy on the front," Froome explained.

 

[EnacheV]

failing a doping test

 

[Granville57]

failing a doping test

Passing a doping test.

 

[Benotti69]

"passed the first test without any problem”

 

[doperhopper]

"...so many demands from all sides"

Braillie praising Vroomie's winter "commitments"

 

[JRanton]

“This success is a reward for a winter spent resting and then intensive training in South Africa. We didn’t get our preparation wrong. The season has been launched successfully.”

 

[doperhopper]

"secret works"

motollara's interview

 

[doperhopper]

from post-Flanders interviews:

Spartacus: "making history"

Pozzato: “rythm change"
(because “That’s what makes the difference between the champions and normal riders.”)

 

[Black Betsy]

Red eggs
Ufe
Training rides in Girona

 

[sniper]

Training rides in Girona

like belkin last year in prep for the giro and tour de france.
probably all hotels in france and italy were booked out.

 

[Zam_Olyas]

Altitude training?

Good post, Zam.

 

[Archibald]

what happened to the classics...

"Vitamin B injections"

and

now being over "allergies"

 

[doperhopper]

marginal Sky and Richie opening new chapter in Giro with... "marginal motorhome"! (looks like even CN is giving up omerta with this title?). Another goog one: "being more professional" - when explaining that Richie may even "surpass Wiggo and Vroom in what concerns training methods" because he is "new generation"... and the best is obviously Brailsfraud asking people to "stop the pseudoscience" of measuring climbing times and comparing to the dirty era of the distant past in a distant galaxy.

http://www.cyclingnews.com/features/porte-this-giro-ditalia-is-a-big-opportunity

 

[heart_attack_man]

Re:

marginal Sky and Richie opening new chapter in Giro with... "marginal motorhome"! (looks like even CN is giving up omerta with this title?). Another goog one: "being more professional" - when explaining that Richie may even "surpass Wiggo and Vroom in what concerns training methods" because he is "new generation"... and the best is obviously Brailsfraud asking people to "stop the pseudoscience" of measuring climbing times and comparing to the dirty era of the distant past in a distant galaxy.

http://www.cyclingnews.com/features/porte-this-giro-ditalia-is-a-big-opportunity

I just did a google search and couldn't find a face-palm icon that expressed my feelings on your post that was ridiculous enough.

Jeebus.

 

[sniper]

Re:

marginal Sky and Richie opening new chapter in Giro with... "marginal motorhome"! (looks like even CN is giving up omerta with this title?). Another goog one: "being more professional" - when explaining that Richie may even "surpass Wiggo and Vroom in what concerns training methods" because he is "new generation"... and the best is obviously Brailsfraud asking people to "stop the pseudoscience" of measuring climbing times and comparing to the dirty era of the distant past in a distant galaxy.

http://www.cyclingnews.com/features/porte-this-giro-ditalia-is-a-big-opportunity

good grief.
these interviews are becoming more pathetic by the day.
How can any self-respecting cycling journo keep up with this?
These guys are just improvising new answers as they go along.
Brailsfraud, Kerrosin, Ellingworth, you see them at breakfast surfing the web together just rolling on the floor laughing about the BS answers they've come up.

 

[heart_attack_man]

Dan Martin @DanMartin86 · May 12
Immense ride @davideformolo and well deserved stage win. Hardwork and determination pays off.

Hardwork and determination.

 

[doperhopper]

Contador (Giro 2015): Recovery is everything

Wiggins (preparing for The Hour): Air pressure is everything!

Yep, new marginal gain.

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/wiggins-not-underestimating-dowsetts-hour-record-but-aims-for-55-250km

 

[Alex Simmons/RST]

Contador (Giro 2015): Recovery is everything

Wiggins (preparing for The Hour): Air pressure is everything!

Yep, new marginal gain.

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/wiggins-not-underestimating-dowsetts-hour-record-but-aims-for-55-250km

Well air density does have a significant impact on the speed one can attain for a given power, so making choices over things you can legally control that would reduce air density is a smart move (in Velodromes that's mostly air temperature).

Air pressure is only controllable in the sense that one can use altitude, otherwise you are at the mercy of the weather gods. If he was really serious in accessing an air density benefit, he'd be in Mexico, not Manchester.

As an example, at Wiggins' approx power and aerodynamics, the difference between barometric pressure of 990 and 1030hPa is ~ 0.7km for the hour.

There is a similar distance benefit for 10C increase in air temperature (assuming no power degradation).

That's why warm low pressure days are fast conditions for TTing.

 

[doperhopper]

Contador (Giro 2015): Recovery is everything

Wiggins (preparing for The Hour): Air pressure is everything!

Yep, new marginal gain.

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/wiggins-not-underestimating-dowsetts-hour-record-but-aims-for-55-250km

Well air density does have a significant impact on the speed one can attain for a given power, so making choices over things you can legally control that would reduce air density is a smart move (in Velodromes that's mostly air temperature).

Air pressure is only controllable in the sense that one can use altitude, otherwise you are at the mercy of the weather gods. If he was really serious in accessing an air density benefit, he'd be in Mexico, not Manchester.

As an example, at Wiggins' approx power and aerodynamics, the difference between barometric pressure of 990 and 1030hPa is ~ 0.7km for the hour.

There is a similar distance benefit for 10C increase in air temperature (assuming no power degradation).

That's why warm low pressure days are fast conditions for TTing.

true story - yet no altitude tracks foreseen... because the only altitude that works is Mt. Teide, elsewhere the magic that gives you 10% does not work (I'd love to see EPO charged Eddy on Obree-style bike going over 60k)