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So I wonder if there is some translation problem also. This is bizarre. Since when is celery in everything? Celery is in hardly anything. Celery is high in sodium and very low in calories. Luckily there was no celery in the Bicky burger or whatever or he might have died of starvation.
First of all, what? Celery is a vegetable and no vegetable that I know of is high in sodium. Cyclists need a lot of sodium anyway, but I don't think Naesen is sitting there weighing the macros and micros of celery as an individual ingredient. He's just eating Belgian stews, where celery is common. He actually is lucky the burger didn't have celery, because it's not unheard of to mix it into ground beef patties. There are a lot of ingredients in the food you eat that you're not aware of until you know someone with a strong allergic reaction to them, so either you are Belgian and clueless (as most people are), or you aren't from Belgium and your diet is very different from a Belgian's.
TotA Trek's López - not that he's a contender for the "Lance Armstrong Performance of the Year" award, it was just the "optics".
I remember it and the only thing of interest was lo Squalo ... and Pozzovivo came 8th.
(oh, and some Aussie won the GC ...). I nearly also got a big bet right by claiming Carapaz would win the GC but never win a stage.
Geraint Thomas THREW that Giro by making it unwatchable shite with Ben Swift‘s corpse pacing steep climbs at 30k to go and letting Roglič recover from a bad crash. Also, Remco got Covid, TGH looked promising, then nuked his season, everybody and their mother abandoned, Adam Hansen destroyed the queen stage and the most memorable thing to me is Nico Denz hitting Derek Gee in the face in the final meters of a sprint after leading himself out, just ahead of that one Canadian fan during Stage 10. Terrible race and nothing will ever give me the life time back that I lost during the Tre Cime stage.
In hindsight he did throw it a bit, but if you were to ask him pre-race would he take a 30 second lead going into the final tt he would've snapped your hand off. I enjoyed it as soon as I stopped caring in the slightest about GC, Gee, Denz, Healy and Pinot stole the show really going in the breaks, I just hope Derek can get his win this time around.
Poor bloke. I won nearly 5000 euros just by JuanPe winning the white jersey. The news of Almeida's covid appeared in the Italian cycling media a little before the official announcement.I remember it and the only thing of interest was lo Squalo ... and Pozzovivo came 8th.
At this point, I think they mostly use it for targeted testing. If someone has suspicious values, it might not be enough to sanction them; however, they can use that info to increase testing on the athlete in question.
Not really - there's only been 14 riders sanctioned on pure hematological-anomalies cases (compared to over a 100 in athletics distance running). It's been a little more successful in target testing for suspicious values resulting in an EPO positive test (20):
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