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Hirschi already had a pretty crazy season as a neopro in 2019, but Pogi and Remco took most of the spotlight.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.
Hirschi already had a pretty crazy season as a neopro in 2019, but Pogi and Remco took most of the spotlight.
10th in E3, 3rd in San Sebastian, 5th on the gc in the BinckBank Tour and 6th on the gc in the Deutschland Tour.
No, on this one I'm actually with you. With the last generation we usually saw a rather linear progression over the year until they became good gc riders. Now we seem to get more and more riders who are really talented in the u23 ranks and have a decent pro career, but nothing too special, until they suddenly pull a world class performance out of their hat (Padun, Hindley, Tao).Yeah, I know... I had him in my cqteam, that's why I followed him closer...
Do you think I'm expecting too much stability from young riders? I mean, it's true, I don't know anything about those things in terms of training/ physical development. It's just my spectator's experience through the years.
Agree. Looks like Uran has finally recaptured the form he showed in 2014 Giro when he destroyed Cadel in the TT. But today’s course was unusual so difficult to make heads or tails of it. As you say if Uran repeats at the TdF ……I don't think it's anywhere close to Pog on Planche. If he repeats at the Tour then let's talk.
Pretty much yeah. Without the pure climbing time there's not that much to say here. MTTs in general often have more variability than a MTF on the same climb.The nature of the ITT made it really suitable for a "surprise" winner. I don't think there's much to extrapolate apart from EF confirming their good levels in time trials and Uran being in fine form despite having no race days for more than 2 months.
All I know for sure is that it was a longer rolling TT like almost every other TT he's done well in previously.What about Uran's performance today? People say it was on Pog 2020 Tour level, I don't believe it.
Personally, I rate Uran really high in terms of GT GC. I think he dopes as rare as possible and gets special prep once in a few years (post-Sky career of course). Thanks to such approach, his body responds strongly to the doping cycles stimulation because he's not doped continuously.
What's your opinion?
No, I meant he rarely doped post-Sky (he was allowed to dope on his own terms in other teams). What he made in Sky... it was rather a silent obligation than his own choice.All I know for sure is that it was a longer rolling TT like almost every other TT he's done well in previously.
Edit: Having said that what makes you so certain he may have doped at other teams but not Sky? Pretty laughable considering he got his first GT podium there.
No, I meant he rarely doped post-Sky (he was allowed to dope on his own terms in other teams). What he made in Sky... it was rather a silent obligation than his own choice.
Don't really understand why this performance bothers you so much. We are talking about a former ITT world champion who is winning his national championship against Langeveld and Bouwman. Coming off a nice weeks racing in Tour de Suisse.just imagine the speculations and conspiracies if ANY Ineos rider put his career on hold for a few months, then came back and won a race like Dumo did...
Who said he was clean during TdF2017? All I said is that he can choose to dope or not post Sky. And if I'm not mistaken his contract was expiring at the end of 2017, so he used his performance to secure next years as well paid pro.what?
he rarely what?
it's amazing how people know who doped, but also how and when?
so he used Sky team doping when at Sky but he arrived 57 seconds behind Froome and his motor and Sky super doping at the 2017 Tour?
it was a "silent obligation"? some people have a whole fantasy world inside their minds ffs
Gaudu:
“I enjoyed the whole week in the Basque Country enormously. I felt good and ended up being up there. That shows that even riders who belong to the MPCC [Movement for Credible Cycling] can be up there are the front. I was at 100 per cent and was able to be up there with the best riders, and you see that everyone is beatable.”
I go to the Tour de France with a lot of hopes but also with some concerns. I read that the presidency of the UCI was going to communicate the new rules about the use of corticoids in May or June and we're still waiting for it. The MPCC has questioned the UCI about the ketones and is yet to receive an answer. We've seen a few surprising things in the racing recently…
Nobody wants another Tour that starts from Brest to look like the one in 2008!
I mean, the Gaudu interview is just Madiot's words coming out of his mouth, isn't it. Those two read together are uncanny.
Yes, and the perpetual self-righteousness coming out of Madiot is a little bit ironic to say the least.Pinot (from the same team) also had a bad habit of talking about doping too much.
It's tedious tbh, i.e. from what we know, it's not ketones or corticoids which make some riders champions versus the rest, so Madiot should shut up already about that. I mean yeah, I agree there's been some "surprising" stuff recently, but there's nothing Madiot does or says which ever comes close to shining a light on the real "behind the scenes".
No, it's just perpetual vague accusations mixed with self-righteousness.