Paul Seixas

[Ilmaestro99]

Colombian nairo takes tramadol - banned, ostricized, results asterisked or annuled, reputation ruined even in Latin America, can't race in certain countries, tramadol nicknames.

Young euro takes tramadol - here's a big world tour contract! Tell us all about how strong your teammate is you sweet young man.

 

[Rob5091]

Colombian nairo takes tramadol - banned, ostricized, results asterisked or annuled, reputation ruined even in Latin America, can't race in certain countries, tramadol nicknames.

Young euro takes tramadol - here's a big world tour contract! Tell us all about how strong your teammate is you sweet young man.

Ahh now. Nairoman got caught twice with Tramadol and Baudin once, and this was when,"“Infringements of the in-competition ban on using tramadol are offences under the UCI Medical Rules. They do not constitute Anti-doping Rule Violations." (https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/ag...ed-from-giro-ditalia-after-tramadol-positive/ )

Nairoman's reputation wasn't helped by the French police raiding the team's hotel and the finds made.
https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/fr...-arkea-samsic-hotel-search-at-tour-de-france/

Even so, Baudin should have been kept at arm's length by WT teams, but he might have a good lawyer or two.

 

[Valv.Piti]

Armstrong on Madone is strange anyway. We know the time and also the segment he did. I don't know the exact date, but it was in 1999. Normally there is a tailwind on this sector, but I calculated it with zero wind.

The results are far below 7 w/kg, especially as I doubt they were already thinking in 60kg etalon w/kg in 1999. According to my calc he maybe did around 6.6 real w/kg for 30 minutes. This also fits better with his TT on Mont Ventoux in June 99 (6.27 eW/kg for 57:52).

So unless he used some specifically heavy equipment for the test or there was a roaring headwind, I really doubt he did 7 W/kg for 30 minutes in 1999. (And the great Tom Danielson also claims to have beaten Armstrong's time a few years later)

Just scrolling through the thread. What the hell happened to Jonathan Vaughter in June 1999?

 

[Tim Cahill]

Just scrolling through the thread. What the hell happened to Jonathan Vaughter in June 1999?

That was the Dauphine tt wasn't it. he used the same program as Lance in the run up to 1999 Tour, a very good climber/tter (with the usual caveats), he was one of the riders who went flying on Passage du Gois a month later, my earliest cycling memory, he said it was the day he decided to stop doing PED's if memory serves.

 

[Valv.Piti]

Yeah, I figured that was the case. He won Route du Sud as well that June. Passage du Gois has to be one of the worst ideas ever

 

[Pozzovivo]

That was the Dauphine tt wasn't it. he used the same program as Lance in the run up to 1999 Tour, a very good climber/tter (with the usual caveats), he was one of the riders who went flying on Passage du Gois a month later, my earliest cycling memory, he said it was the day he decided to stop doing PED's if memory serves.

Watching the video thinking: The more things change, the more they stay the same

The absolutely crazy motorpacing at the start of Passage du Gois is creating the frantic chase and may have increased the likelihood for crashing more than anything else.

Pretty scenic and unique, if a little unnecessary. Beats the infamous bridge passing in Denmark which had a way higher risk potential and was actually a terrible idea.

 

[Netserk]

Beats the infamous bridge passing in Denmark which had a way higher risk potential and was actually a terrible idea.

it had no heightened risk potential

 

[Coppi-Bartali]

Scotson is climbing better than the leader they had until 2024.

O'Connor's level has dropped proportionally to the rise in the level of riders like Prohdomme, Scotson, or Mülhberger.

 

[BubbaChuck]

my man is looking older than pogacar at tender age of 19.

 

[ashhutch1997]

That was the Dauphine tt wasn't it. he used the same program as Lance in the run up to 1999 Tour, a very good climber/tter (with the usual caveats), he was one of the riders who went flying on Passage du Gois a month later, my earliest cycling memory, he said it was the day he decided to stop doing PED's if memory serves.

JV used EPO when he was at Credit Agricole, but on his own rather than a systematic doping program from the team.

 

[Tim Cahill]

JV used EPO when he was at Credit Agricole, but on his own rather than a systematic doping program from the team.

Yeah my timeline is a bit messed up with Vaughters, because I remember him saying he was fed up with it all then, but then he carried on doping for a bit anyway, as always talks a big game.

A few weeks later, in the second stage of that year’s Tour, which Armstrong would eventually win, Vaughters crashed hard along with 50 other riders on the Passage du Gois, a cobblestone road that is submerged at high tide. He got up, bloodied and battered, but climbed off his bike and quit the Tour a few miles later.
“I wanted nothing more to do with the race, I wanted nothing more to do with the team, and I wanted nothing more to do with Lance,” he writes. “The world thought I was brave for even trying to finish. I knew I was a coward.”

Anyway one of his guys won today, Paul's friend tramadolito Baudin with the rare increase in performance after leaving Decathlon!

 

[Ilmaestro99]

A win for his tramadol mate today, if baudin was Latinoamerican he wouldn't be allowed in the race

 

[Rackham]

Seixas is fascinating. Huge gains between October-February and based on today's showing very little between April and June.

The weekend is going to be a fun watch.

 

[Krzysztof_O]

Seixas is fascinating. Huge gains between October-February and based on today's showing very little between April and June.

The weekend is going to be a fun watch.

Let's wait till the weekend is over, after those two hard MTF we will know more. He spent 2 months on altitude in winter, which could partially explain his big form early in the season (clinical reasons aside). Plus, the main target is still the Tour.

 

[Rackham]

Let's wait till the weekend is over, after those two hard MTF we will know more. He spent 2 months on altitude in winter, which could partially explain his big form early in the season (clinical reasons aside). Plus, the main target is still the Tour.

Correct, of course.

I'm just easily bored when the mutantisms fail to materialize. It's like in a superhero flick when the writers insist on making the main protagonist 'human' after already showing us impossible stuff. No thanks, just hit me with the mad performances already. Otherwise my TdF hype will deflate.

I'm only half kidding as well, i.e. I'm already seeing people (in France) attempt to rationalize today's 'okayish' performance after having had zero eyebrows raised at the leap he made over the winter. Liker somehow we're still discussing real humans here.

 

[Krzysztof_O]

Correct, of course.

I'm just easily bored when the mutantisms fail to materialize. It's like in a superhero flick when the writers insist on making the main protagonist 'human' after already showing us impossible stuff. No thanks, just hit me with the mad performances already. Otherwise my TdF hype will deflate.

I'm only half kidding as well, i.e. I'm already seeing people (in France) attempt to rationalize today's 'okayish' performance after having had zero eyebrows raised at the leap he made over the winter. Liker somehow we're still discussing real humans here.

If he doesn't drop all his rivals at least once it will be an underwhelming performance but maybe also good for him regarding pre Tour expectations.

 

[Rackham]

If he doesn't drop all his rivals at least once it will be an underwhelming performance but maybe also good for him regarding pre Tour expectations.

I had a dream a few weeks ago that Seixas was overtraining for the Tour and would arrive cooked. Mind you I also had a dream that Pog was riding an electric bike. Maybe I'm psychic.

 

[Red Rick]

I had a dream a few weeks ago that Seixas was overtraining for the Tour and would arrive cooked. Mind you I also had a dream that Pog was riding an electric bike. Maybe I'm psychic.

Meanwhile Vincenzo Nibali has never magically appeared while i was eating a doner kebab. My life dreams are a lie

 

[Krzysztof_O]

I had a dream a few weeks ago that Seixas was overtraining for the Tour and would arrive cooked. Mind you I also had a dream that Pog was riding an electric bike. Maybe I'm psychic.

If Seixas gets 30th at the Tour and Pogi gets busted for an e-bike you'll be hailed the new Nostradamus.

 

[BahamontesPhantom]

Can political influence be discussed in the doping section of the forum ?

 

[Mayomaniac]

Meanwhile Vincenzo Nibali has never magically appeared while i was eating a doner kebab. My life dreams are a lie

He'd appear to smack you one if you ordered pineapple Pizza.

 

[Krzysztof_O]

Can political influence be discussed in the doping section of the forum ?

No, it can't.

 

[Red Rick]

He'd appear to smack you one if you ordered pineapple Pizza.

I have a strict don't ask don't tell rule about pineapple pizza

 

[Rackham]

Overreaction time in truest French spirit:

- Seixas went super deep and hard on the naughty stuff during the winter and gained 1000% like a modded up Dragonborn hitting level 80 in Skyrim via artificial means before fighting the frost troll on the way up to meet the greybeards in High Hrothgar.

- then after his impressive early spring he goes altitude training for the TdF and finds out he's hit a plateau, so he does more and more like he's Ivan Drago preparing to face Rocky Balboa in Moscow.

Then his Dauphiné (or whatever they call it) goes to hell based on his own mistake and now here he is, licking wounds whilst the hyped country repeats "everything will be fine!" like a religious mantra.

Tune in next month in Barcelona for the next episode of this engaging melodrama in the making.

 

[Krzysztof_O]

Overreaction time in truest French spirit:

- Seixas went super deep and hard on the naughty stuff during the winter and gained 1000% like a modded up Dragonborn hitting level 80 in Skyrim via artificial means before fighting the frost troll on the way up to meet the greybeards in High Hrothgar.

- then after his impressive early spring he goes altitude training for the TdF and finds out he's hit a plateau, so he does more and more like he's Ivan Drago preparing to face Rocky Balboa in Moscow.

Then his Dauphiné (or whatever they call it) goes to hell based on his own mistake and now here he is, licking wounds whilst the hyped country repeats "everything will be fine!" like a religious mantra.

Tune in next month in Barcelona for the next episode of this engaging melodrama in the making.

The kiddo needs to learn how to peak for important events (or peak all year long). Mauro and Teddy will gladly take him under their wings (to the forum's experts delight).