Sure Franklin, Sky are no different than any other team apart from only Sky have worked out how to copy Armstrong, Postal and pay off UCI. Oh and of course no other team has millions of posts trying to work it out too lol!
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Hey Sam, sorry that I'm going to torch this strawman with ease. I do wonder if you have trouble reading or just being disingenious. You can answer that one yourself.samhocking said:Sure Franklin, Sky are no different than any other team apart from only Sky have worked out how to copy Armstrong, Postal and pay off UCI. Oh and of course no other team has millions of posts trying to work it out too lol!
I suspect they change pillows mid-season, thus permitting the season long peak.Moose McKnuckles said:rm7 said:Will he be able to sustain this shape into the Giro? He seems to be in very good form too early i think.
Sky's "marginal gains" approach allows them to peak year round.
nayr497 said:At least Froome could ride with some style if he was going to cheat. But cheating and looking ugly doing it, now that's insulting to the fans...
ScienceIsCool said:http://www.ausport.gov.au/information/ais
I really don't think Sky have even a fraction of 1% of the data or experience that these guys do. 30 years of state sponsored research and an entire catalogue of publications. PhD candidates, post-docs and career scientists as far as the eye can see. You'll notice that Australians are generally quite successful in cycling, but by no means could you cobble together an all Australian team and dominate the sport. Sky as a creation of British Cycling, showing the world how it's really done, is just silly.
John Swanson
and australia too is having something of a peak period in cycling, with four or five wins in Monuments from 2007 onwards.ScienceIsCool said:http://www.ausport.gov.au/information/ais
I really don't think Sky have even a fraction of 1% of the data or experience that these guys do. 30 years of state sponsored research and an entire catalogue of publications. PhD candidates, post-docs and career scientists as far as the eye can see. You'll notice that Australians are generally quite successful in cycling, but by no means could you cobble together an all Australian team and dominate the sport. Sky as a creation of British Cycling, showing the world how it's really done, is just silly.
John Swanson
The Hitch said:Even their most corrupt on the take journos cant after 5 yeaes come up with one example of how sky actually revolutionized training in the sport. I think that is telling.
Apparently he was 59kg at the start of Paris-Nice.Dear Wiggo said:Yeah the side-on vision of him during that TT was a good inidcation of just how skinny he has become this year.
sniper said:for the weight loss without loss of power we can speculate about AICAR again.
but it's a fair question: going out there without an ounce of body fat you would expect it would make him more susceptible to simple deseases like a cold/fever/chestinfection.
After nearly 1000 km under in the rain, the riders begin to pay the price.
Not only respiratory diseases but also muscle fatigue, tendinitis and digestive problems assaulted the more fragile athletes in the peloton.
Cyclists, in addition to food, ingest water and mud from the pavement, which often contains parasites: worm and protozoa infection are definitely not uncommon, draining the energies well beyond the physiological fatigue of a stage race.
And it is riders such as Wiggins and Hesjedal, along with Froome and Gesink, the prototypes of the latest generation of riders whose fragility I had already pointed out (see comment for the TdF of 07/24/12), that are the first to pay the price for such weather conditions, inevitably having to quit the Giro .
Physically very tall and perhaps too thin, they are more exposed to wind and cold compared to more compact and less taut athletes.
Nah, he lost all that weight because he finally stopped eating pizzasniper said:for the weight loss without loss of power we can speculate about AICAR again.
but it's a fair question: going out there without an ounce of body fat you would expect it would make him more susceptible to simple deseases like a cold/fever/chestinfection.