Richie Porte - what do we know about him?

[BYOP88]

Why is lawyer in single quotation marks? Odd.

As to my vocabulary, what benefit derives from trying to replace a word that is both perfectly useful and apposite? There's something rather Newspeak-y about that idea...

Because I couldn't remember if it was you who said they were a lawyer or if it was someone else who said they were a lawyer and I was getting you mixed up with them.

But you're right, the term 'troll' for Del1962 is bang on.

 

[the sceptic]

Obviously banking blood

quite possible. But I thought skyborgs could peak for 6 months at 6.0w/kg. Its just weird.

 

[BYOP88]

quite possible. But I thought skyborgs could peak for 6 months at 6.0w/kg. Its just weird.

That was 2012-2013 science has moved on since then.

 

[Fortyninefourteen]

Cheers, biciciclismo live ticker suggested he had punctured but obviously not!

Yeah. He punctured. An artery. With a 12 gage needle. Last week.

 

[Ferminal]

Wiggins (2012) and Froome (2013) didn't have a withdrawal lull. Though the scheduling may be different with the Giro but in that case why did he bother showing up. Likewise if he was still genuinely sick/injured. Maybe he just had a shocking day. He was originally down to do Coppi e Bartali IIRC, and nothing now until Trentino? Interesting times.

Oh I forgot the whole dual peak thing may be what's complicating things.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Out of Catlunya

Stage 2 + 100km

 

[BYOP88]

Richie not been washing his hands properly?

 

[veganrob]

He needs a block at Tenerife. Meet Wiggo there. Maybe Henao also

 

[deeno1975]

Stage 2 + 100km

At least little Richie has a smile on his face... A wry smile.

 

[thehog]

Odd it all is considering the recent spate of information.

But let's see how the Dawg performs tomorrow and Thursday.

 

[frenchfry]

Richie not been washing his hands properly?

Worse than that, I suspect that there was a mix up when the pillows were distributed at the team hotel.

 

[deeno1975]

Worse than that, I suspect that there was a mix up when the pillows were distributed at the team hotel.

Maybe he had some of the dreaded Nutella

 

[BYOP88]

Worse than that, I suspect that there was a mix up when the pillows were distributed at the team hotel.

Poor guys having to use someone else's pillow. Isn't that against the Human Rights Act?

 

[thehog]

Poor guys having to use someone else's pillow. Isn't that against the Human Rights Act?

He'd better use a pillow case. Don't want to be exchanging fluids unprotected.

 

[the sceptic]

Richie was doing fine up until a week ago, ready to peak for 6 months like last year.. then suddenly this?

Its just strange.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Maybe he had some of the dreaded Nutella

LoL
............

 

[MartinGT]

Richie was doing fine up until a week ago, ready to peak for 6 months like last year.. then suddenly this?

Its just strange.

He was 5s behind Bertie on one stage and looking well. Then suddenly he is hit with illness overnight.

Odd.

 

[Neworld]

Poor guys having to use someone else's pillow. Isn't that against the Human Rights Act?

It's not that they share pillows, it is that he didn't get the marginal gain "Altitude pillow" that SKy/DB has been developing. That pillow removal or misplacement induced an atypical sickness in poor Richie.

 

[RownhamHill]

He was 5s behind Bertie on one stage and looking well. Then suddenly he is hit with illness overnight.

Odd.

'Man get's sick and finds it hard to perform in elite athletic pursuit' really isn't that odd, is it?

 

[hfer07]

.......so Sky's PR will be claiming he'll be available & ready within 48 hours to do a massive training & be ready for the next race.......

It was the same claim during T-A.......

two consecutive drop outs........hmmmm

maybe "afraid" or "empty" the cause behind this???

Odd indeed

 

[BradCantona]

My God, it's almost as if he was actually ill last week, and wasn't fully recovered to return after all... but that's a ludicrous interpretation of events, right? He has to have been dropping out of events because the dope testers are closing in / blood banking / beemed back up to outer space, correct?

 

[frenchfry]

Poor guys having to use someone else's pillow. Isn't that against the Human Rights Act?

Only when the team manager flushes the pillow down the toilet.

 

[deeno1975]

My God, it's almost as if he was actually ill last week, and wasn't fully recovered to return after all...

Yeah right, from a team that prides itself on leaving no stone unturned and a rider focused environment.

DB: Richie, are you feeling better?
Richie: Sure, yeah , I'll give it a go and we'll see what happens?

Horse manure. I would have at least expected an evaluation by medical if he was indeed fit to start. And if he was, then he should at least have finished a few stages. Especially if the team is what it says it is.

 

[Puckfiend]

God, these guys are really, really missing their old saddle sore doc!

 

[sniper]

'Man get's sick and finds it hard to perform in elite athletic pursuit' really isn't that odd, is it?

come on, rownhamhill,
nobody claims porte's sickness/withdrawal is odd as a stand-alone event.
#context

God, these guys are really, really missing their old saddle sore doc!

lol