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Think you'd expect gaps to be bigger on a climb like this in the middle of the third week of a GT thb. It's a VAM very close to Bernal on the Zoncolan, while you'd probably expect Zonc to be lower.But at the same time 2013 Aru and Niemiec climbed faster than anyone but Almeida and Yates.
I don't think that the gaps were much bigger in 2013, you still had 8 riders within 2min of Nibali on the stage, this year 8 riders came in less than 2min behind Almeida.
Would be fun to see an Astana revival at the Tour.Lutsenko just did a Foliforov against Thomas, LRP, McNulty and so on...
With the duo of Vinodopov and Fofonov in the team cars, everything can happen.Would be fun to see an Astana revival at the Tour.
Nukes going off everywhere! The PED police have thrown up their hands, run the white flag up the pole. Not just in cycling, but athletics (world records getting blown up left and right), and tennis/football/soccer are their usual selves (glowing). It's an Olympics year. After the Covid devastation, TV ratings are critically needed. That means major crazy performances. Get your popcorn now before there's a run on it (like TP last year).
I think that was the biggest trigger for the year. Vino and company all got fed up with it.it all went out the window with Pogacar's TT last year. i still dont understand why the Giro was so "normal" though. maybe the weather? for whatever reason the Giro climbing times are always weirdly slow (when it's in May) no matter how strong the field is.
more money involved less chance to get caught; I mean it pisses me off every time I hear people talk about cycling as a dirty sport; give Serena, Ramos or Ronaldo bio passport and everybody will failI love all the craziness going on in tennis...and nobody wants to talk about doping. Serena talking about how to handle the media, but nobody wants to bring up how she handles testers knocking on her door.
Even with Sharapova testing positive, most fans act like the sport is completely clean. So strange.
Yes, I think cycling is actually better policed for PEDs (relatively speaking) than many other big sports. Or I should say, other big sports are even worse policed for PEDs than cycling.more money involved less chance to get caught; I mean it pisses me off every time I hear people talk about cycling as a dirty sport; give Serena, Ramos or Ronaldo bio passport and everybody will fail
more money involved less chance to get caught; I mean it pisses me off every time I hear people talk about cycling as a dirty sport; give Serena, Ramos or Ronaldo bio passport and everybody will fail
Do people really believe other sports are clean? People around me mostly don't watch pro sports, if anything, then football - they know there's doping in football, but they don't care much because it's such a people's sport and they watch it for the show and the get-together.
Still, if you ask them about cycling, the immediate response would always be "the sport full of doping?" They just think that cycling is totally on top in that regard, and in other sports it's a bit more restrained, which I can understand to a degree, because there are certainly cleaner sports than cycling - on the other hand biathlon, which is so popular around here, definitely isn't, and that's a sport where there are not only the same drugs taken, but partly also the same doctors used...
So that's a bit ridiculous.
The kids do. And we all know John Cena doesn’t exist. You can never see him anywhere.I have no idea. Isn't that the same as asking how anyone can believe pro wrestling is real? Even more so with pro wrestling after what the Kliq pulled at Madison Square Gardens when Hall and Nash were leaving the WWF for the WCW? That was several years before the name change to WWE when states started wanting to do drug tests.
Unable to find the right thread, so I'm putting it in here: How suspicious does Hirschi's sudden rise last year and his sudden decline this year look to you? With the talk of whereabout issues, the team change...
Surely he might just have medical problems, but this looks crazily suspicious to me. So he was an extremely talented young rider, but then was pretty much nowhere in the first half of the year, then suddenly becomes one of the very, very best, and now he's doing nothing of notice in the races that should suit him so well.
He seems nice, but wtf.