Tadej Pogacar and Mauro Giannetti

[ColonelKidneyBeans]

Johan Bruyneel has 9 years as a professional racer, he speaks French, Spanish, English and different dialects of Dutch,routinely doing interviews in Flemish, he lives in Spain and is extremely knowledgeable about all things bike racing. He has contact with bike racing people worldwide.
He had 13 years as a director sportif with some of the most winning teams in cycling history. He co-founded a popular cycling podcast that often features pro racers..you might be confusing him with someone else with the same or similar name.
In the context of doping, doper discussions ( arguments) people lean into Strava data almost exclusively, Strava is sighted for power estimates for riders every minute.. You can just do your own calculations by taking the start-up stop time for a race and using another guess on rider's weight people do wattage calcs.
I respect your opinion to say Bruyneel and the hundreds of people inside cycling don't know what they are talking about, are unreliable, uneducated, I strongly disagree,
Johan has forgotten more about bike racing than I could ever know.

And your opinion that Strava should not be used because of it's lack of specific data, I agree but still refer to Strava because of a lack of other widely used data.
Also challenge still standing, even if calorie calculations on Strava are inaccurate, the inaccuracies don't apply to only 1 or 2 riders so given a margin of error, Pogacar's historically low calorie consumption is still strange. Needs explanation

Strava calories estimations are unreliable for what Bruyneel is trying to do because you are basically comparing apple to... i don't know not even oranges.
Why is that? For starter we don't even know the source of the data from the individuals riders. The calorie count could originate from MET tables (completely worthless), HR data (maybe a bit more reliable but still garbage when talking about pro riders, and what algorithm is used then? The bike computer or the strava one? Their are at least four different formulas that i know of) or the powermeter, the only source that is somewhat reliable, with the three caveats that the accuracy and precision varies quite a a bit between the different suppliers, (the dual sided shimano powermeter used by pogacar is not called a "random number generator" for nothing).
The second caveat is that efficiency is subject to wide inter- and intraindividual variations, which we don't know if they've been taken into account for the different riders.
The third one being that we don't know what actually happened during the stage; maybe pogacar raced smarter and conserved energy better, the only way to know that would be to get the raw power data which we wont. Basically we don't know if the individual calculations are originating from the same data set, and even if they are there is so much noise that they're not fit for purpose.

BTW i know very well who Bruyneel is and he's first and foremost a liar and a cheater desperate to stay relevant despite a lifetime ban, you could not choose a worse individual to make a point...

 

[ColonelKidneyBeans]

Bruyneel is neither comparing apples to apples, oranges to apples, ect, instead he is comparing riders on exact races, training routes, etc. We need to agree on common facts..Strava is what we have like it or not, it's the most commonly referenced cycling data base. Rider weights are never known, never accurate.. Full stop..in boxing you weigh in, but bike racing most of the body analysis comes from outside, just zealous fans doing a meat market type thing.
As was clearly displayed, while Bruyneel did lie, cheat, make mistakes, was punished for them, took responsibility for his actions, and asked for forgiveness and be allowed to live, because nothing good or bad in bike racing is life or death. What was made clear from all things involving Armstrong, Bruyneel and dozens, hundreds of others that justice was not served, guilty were not punished and the law, the rules in cycling were not fairly or evenly applied. The bizarre disproportionate punishment for Armstrong and Bruyneel is childish.

Numerous posts above make excellent documented examples of people who went through the system with no punishment, some started and finished careers using drugs and other forms of cheating without detection of any kind.
Much of what you are saying is important, if not critical. The UCI didn't catch Armstrong or Bruyneel, @15-20 years later, records being shattered and nobody under scrutiny, no nothing. So now the system that was clearly broken under Armstrong era has been basically unchanged, untouched, same silly system that didn't work in the 80s,90s, 2000s and beyond has fans, governments, sponsors, riders, alumni furious, frustrated and often in opposition to accepting or endorsement of athletes and the sport. It's simply not the responsibility of Pogacar or Seixas to pay for the sins of Armstrong.. It's not their job to clean up the sport and it's management and reputation.. They are young athletes in their prime.. The system is supposed to be there to support them, not suffocate and submerge them in bull@@@@ ..they are being betrayed by corruption and pocket lining criminals..
Travel a little and you see almost immediately places where corruption and no respect for the law, law enforcement.. The UCI stands alone in professional sports as an absolute international joke.. If the UCI says Johan Bruyneel did something wrong, it's a badge of honor..Guys like Hein Verbruggen, Pat McQuiad, Brian Cookson are filthy, filthy dirty in my opinion after available Armstrong evidence was revealed.. Very few people were punished..
You are making a binary argument, either good or bad, black or white, Johan Brunyneel made some real scumbag moves but the evidence showed he was average.. Scary true..

You made a wall of text and yet did not address any of the point i've made, instead going into a tangent about JB...

I'm surprised to see that clip show up, the calorie expenditure data was on the stage 6 episode of JB2 in 2024 (the data was from stage 5), he apologised and said the information was wrong the episode after it was called out on here as being nonsense so I'm surprised WEDU clipped that up for their Youtube shorts.

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Quod erat demonstrandum, even JB acknowledged that he missed the mark here...

 

[Glorious]

Team UAE does everything illegally, they are extreme criminals and even on social media...

https://twitter.com/x/status/2046694604913680691

View: https://x.com/lucasaganronald/status/2046694604913680691?s=46

 

[Berniece]

Team UAE does everything illegally, they are extreme criminals and even on social media...

https://twitter.com/x/status/2046694604913680691

View: https://x.com/lucasaganronald/status/2046694604913680691?s=46

Lol, such a sad bunch

 

[MountainGoatW]

Team UAE does everything illegally, they are extreme criminals and even on social media...

https://twitter.com/x/status/2046694604913680691

View: https://x.com/lucasaganronald/status/2046694604913680691?s=46

This is one of the things i have been trying to tell here, control socialmedia and start building the image early and you have enough "fanboys" believe that pogster with his hair tuffs is for real. The Vampire really learned his lessons from the past. I have to give them bonus of buying a legendary bike brand in the process.

I am not sure if there is hope that the cyborg will ever be caught, but im putting my hopes in redbull etc. they cant be profiting anything these days from cycling, when Mauro, UAE and pog the Frankestein are cheating all the big wins in their bag. Redbull might be the only one to challenge financially the UAE/UCI controlled hoax. Imagine how far we have come, a modern day slavery dictatorship is allowed to control our beloved sport with unlimited petrodollars 🙏🏼🤡 Rules say no politics here, but how can you avoid that, if the most succesfull team and the biggest cheaters in sports history are de facto owned by one of the worst humanrights abuser countries with unlimited dollars.