Question Poll - is tadej pocagar using a hidden motor?

[Cookster15]

Are you aware of any other studies that discuss techniques & strategies in blood doping that can circumvent the current ABP?

No. My concern is the ABP is not being utilized to anywhere near its potential.

 

[Nomad]

No. My concern is the ABP is not being utilized to anywhere near its potential.

Can you further elaborate? Are you talking about the UCI looking the other way at flagged passports & not pursuing any action?

 

[Cookster15]

Can you further elaborate? Are you talking about the UCI looking the other way at flagged passports & not pursuing any action?

Maybe that. But also that it cost more money to secure a ban. Lawyers have pushed the margin of what would constitute guilt too far IMO. I am a numbers man but if an expert tells me a certain pattern in the rider’s blood scores are 99% certain of illegal blood manipulation that’s good enough for me. Lawyers might argue otherwise.

But the other issue was the accuracy of the passport software. Someone posted an Ashenden paper from Feb 2020 here last week. How could the passport software miss that? If you can have false negatives you can also have false positives. A lawyer will jump all over that to cast doubt.

 

[Lurkerman]

I don't think Pogacar uses a motor. However, due to technological and philosophical developments over time, etc., I think that a concept can become outdated, and so perhaps one day it no longer makes sense to talk about a bike, i.e., it's become an outdated, nonsensical concept. As such, whilst probably unrealistic and unaffordable, one thing that I'd love to see one day was if at least the richest race TdF tried and host their event where all riders had to ride a neutral-service bike provided by the TdF itself - teams just inform them of the measurements of their squad, and then the TdF hands out an equally terrible bike to everyone in the neutral zone every day. I think Pog still wins, but it'd be interesting to watch, and an attempt to keep an atavistic, "meritocratic" event like the TdF alive