only rider of the team with long sleeves on the rest day
It sounds incredibly paranoid, but that's been a thing before... (not being incredibly paranoid, but long sleeves on rest days for some particular reason)
only rider of the team with long sleeves on the rest day
only rider of the team with long sleeves on the rest day
Without checking I'd say Nibali in 2014.5 minutes ahead heading into the final week. Ouch.
When it the last time the Maillot Jaune was this far ahead with a week to go?
Bardet, Pinot and Valverde had a closer gap after the 2nd rest day compared to this edition.Without checking I'd say Nibali in 2014.
He will win MTF, he already has one ITT. Now winning a mountain stage will look fine.Well too bad Pogi leads by 5 minutes else we could see quite some demonstration on stage 17 to the Col du Portet . I guess he will hold back to save for the TT. Weather is staying quite cool for him too which is exactly what he likes.
Are they still doing hi
3 times?!? That seems excessive but I guess harder to fake a result.
Do they just do urine drug screening or hair follicles as well?
I saw this graphic on twitter on the rest day (here):Bardet, Pinot and Valverde had a closer gap after the 2nd rest day compared to this edition.
To find a bigger gap you have to go all the way back to 2000, Armstrong had 7:26 on Ulrich and 7:28 on Beloki. Mr Armstrong learned to tone down the gap and his average gap going on the 3rd week for the next tours was around 2-3 min.
Perfect, the last two editions had a different winner.
Looks like I was at least partly wrong. He sure looked like he was under no threat. TT should be fun.Looks like this will be a predictable win by something like a minute? TP looks like he can crack them at will right now. Let's see what happens
Looks like state wide doping program in Slovenia and with no reporter like David Walsh to pursue him, he'll be laughing all the way.Yeah, Pogachar is on some sort of illegal program.
I read his statement about being tested 3 times in one day. That does sound like target testing to me ? But maybe every leader in TdF would be target tested ? For comparison I remember Norwegian cross country skiers complaining that there is not enough testing, that there can be weeks or even months between tests.
Anyway, I'm thinking that if he is on something surely doping while at the tour is too risky these days ? Doping should be most likely done during preparation, as testing will be much more unlikely ?
No sir, he is probably using a newer masking agent which hides the "micro dosages" for sure under a strict regimented doctor and team management order. Aicar and a new masking agent would be my guess
Yeah, Pogachar is on some sort of illegal program.
It's kind of weird that we're even having this repeat conversation from 20 years ago (i.e. "Lance is doped etc.") because the bottom line is I cannot look at the list of Tour de France winners (like... since forever) & say "that's when these guys were riding bread & water!". In the 1980's for example they didn't yet have EPO, but they still used amphetamines, anabolic steroids & testosterone. All banned substances. The glory of the Tour (& its popular heroes) was built by guys who dodged the "rules".