did anyone else make the lecture in Melbourne by Oxford Prof Julian Savulescu?
I got to speak to him for a sec after. I offered a devil's advocate to him, and riffing a little on Race Radio, i said Bill Stapleton was the real genius (not Ferrari) behind Lance, by creating LAnce the cancer brand, Lance the cancer investment vehicle, and throwing the resources behind USPS to neutralise a race into an ergo test.
Ofcourse, Ferrari is part of the "resources". And one cannot split off Wiesel and Stapleton. They are not a different unit for the sake of this thought experiment.
Wiesel handled the high politics and theory, and Stapleton was the operator of the apotheosis hypothesis.
Cancer was the brand. Cycling was the world stage. The American consumer was the market to sell to. cycling writers have missed this overarching narrative.
The proof is in the race in about 2002 when a Raimondas Rumsas at Lampre fuelled by edita in a solasun campervan, finished second at the Tour if one neutralises the ttt where Beloki and ONCE got about one minute on him. Take that minute away, Rumsas is second to Armstrong, not riding with the annual resources pushed in his favour like Lance. Switch the resources is my thesis, you have Rumsas on top of Lance.
Rumsas had won Lombardy in 2000, so the guy is no chump.
Oh, and if anyone is interested in the Shane Warne embroglio, JS had a freudian slip. He was saying how a diuretic is a mask/masking agent, and a masking agent for steroids. And then about 2 or 3 minutes later, he said Warne had tested positive for steroids. This is clearly a freudian slip, he was not reading a speech, he said before, because of the lack of turnout, he would change the format a little and not speak from the script. He was using some powerpoint overheads, mostly images, and images to explicate the themes we all know he riffs on, or, you know if you follow Julian Savulescu's pamphlets.
the speech was recorded for voice, not the visual, i will see if i can add it in the next fortnight when it becomes available.
For those who are not aware of Warne, the best analogy would be a pitcher, think a Clemens type. Tho currently, cricket has not had the advance in PEDs to threshold levels like the US team sports. Tho, now you can see in the shiny skin and the prominent foreheads and the shapes of the bodies, that they are getting a significant bout of testo/hgh peptides. fast bowlers in particular (Warne was a spin bowler).
I got to speak to him for a sec after. I offered a devil's advocate to him, and riffing a little on Race Radio, i said Bill Stapleton was the real genius (not Ferrari) behind Lance, by creating LAnce the cancer brand, Lance the cancer investment vehicle, and throwing the resources behind USPS to neutralise a race into an ergo test.
Ofcourse, Ferrari is part of the "resources". And one cannot split off Wiesel and Stapleton. They are not a different unit for the sake of this thought experiment.
Wiesel handled the high politics and theory, and Stapleton was the operator of the apotheosis hypothesis.
Cancer was the brand. Cycling was the world stage. The American consumer was the market to sell to. cycling writers have missed this overarching narrative.
The proof is in the race in about 2002 when a Raimondas Rumsas at Lampre fuelled by edita in a solasun campervan, finished second at the Tour if one neutralises the ttt where Beloki and ONCE got about one minute on him. Take that minute away, Rumsas is second to Armstrong, not riding with the annual resources pushed in his favour like Lance. Switch the resources is my thesis, you have Rumsas on top of Lance.
Rumsas had won Lombardy in 2000, so the guy is no chump.
Oh, and if anyone is interested in the Shane Warne embroglio, JS had a freudian slip. He was saying how a diuretic is a mask/masking agent, and a masking agent for steroids. And then about 2 or 3 minutes later, he said Warne had tested positive for steroids. This is clearly a freudian slip, he was not reading a speech, he said before, because of the lack of turnout, he would change the format a little and not speak from the script. He was using some powerpoint overheads, mostly images, and images to explicate the themes we all know he riffs on, or, you know if you follow Julian Savulescu's pamphlets.
the speech was recorded for voice, not the visual, i will see if i can add it in the next fortnight when it becomes available.
For those who are not aware of Warne, the best analogy would be a pitcher, think a Clemens type. Tho currently, cricket has not had the advance in PEDs to threshold levels like the US team sports. Tho, now you can see in the shiny skin and the prominent foreheads and the shapes of the bodies, that they are getting a significant bout of testo/hgh peptides. fast bowlers in particular (Warne was a spin bowler).
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