He won by 30 seconds after a 100km escape and was obviously hurting in the closing kilometers. I really doubt motors.
What are people really saying hahaha. You cant compare JR to MEN in this sport cycling its not the same as other sports, you compare them when they enter elite racing and their age and how they fares relative to that.
This is much worse. We've never seen anything like this before. I'm not only talking about today, but he basically destroyed the entire field on every terrain at any time of the season, all season. That didn't happen in the nineties. We never had this all season domination. You had TdF domination (Indurain, Armstrong) and spring classics domination (Mapei), but even these guys had a bad day now and then.
Just no one like him, that is better.
More money = better drugs, better doctors, better protection.
Maybe gianetti just suddenly decided to start using clean and legitimate methods one morning, after a long career as a dirty guy and unrepentant dopper
Obviously because the investment matches the outcome. Football is a major investment, but it gets a lot of attention so it's worth it. Cycling they get to dominate for very little investment.
I think we can all agree, UAE found some advanced doping this year, that the others teams including Visma, didn't yet found, and i am not talking just about Pogacar. The other riders of the team, improved a lot and had good results.
No way, especially when they always had more money than everyone.
I don't agree. It's an option, but not the one I find most likely.
Well, Astana had more money in 2008, and that's why they won more than Saunier, and guess what, they're weren't catched like saunier. They had money to use things better and cover what they did, without getting caught.
That he has mostly the same kinds of inputs as Vingegaard, but more resources or better protection. Or maybe even just on a similar level, and only the Itzulia crash is the difference.
His YoY improvement relative to the peloton and his climb results in absolute terms beating records of the EPO era make it very difficult to swalow.
I’d agree except we are not only talking about dominance of grand tour racing here. I don’t think we would ever see Vingegaard win a world title unless it was a unipeurto course finishing on an HC climb - which isn’t going to happen.
And Van der Poel would never contend a GT no matter what drugs he took. So I don't think their difference in one-day races implies that they must be doping to different extents.
See, I dont think those higher levels of protection even really exist anymore, not between WT teams at least. Sure, a small fish gets caught every once in a (long) while. But the UCI realised a long, long time ago that actually catching a WT-level rider (let alone someone with Vingo's or Pog's status) is incredibly damaging to the sport, and therefor, their income.
Pogacar is "way beyond" one of the biggest dopers in the history of cycling and you really doubt that he is using any substance. He is doing W/kg numbers that pretty much every exercise physiologist on record thought impossible and you really doubt that he is using any substance. He obliterated Vingegaard who you are certain that he is doping, in this year's TdF, hell, he is gotten to the point where he is pretty much doing a Landis Luz Ardiden-type-solo week in week out and you still "really doubt" if he is using any substance. ?!!!!
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