Team Ineos (Formerly the Sky thread)

[Bronstein]

I wonder what Walsh official job description was.

Head of Minitrue.

 

[Dear Wiggo]

outcome focus? seriously.

that's the path to doping.

 

[burning]

not measuring VO2 max of your best rider

No wind tunnel training for your best rider until he podiums tdf

 

[deeno1975]

No wind tunnel training for your best rider until he podiums tdf

Wind tunnell for uphill sprinting like an egg beater but not for TT. (See Froome and the Kimmage interview.)

 

[DirtyWorks]

Wind tunnell for uphill sprinting like an egg beater but not for TT. (See Froome and the Kimmage interview.)

Yes, and you know JV wants in on some wind tunnel testing for climbing.

2015 is looking set for a fantastic year of sports fraud. So exciting!

 

[Electress]

Outcome focus, Podium people, Marginal gains, The human mind, Culture and core, and Winning behaviour.

Is this for real? Tell me someone is making this up?

This is like something from '2012', for God's sake. 'Podium people' just makes me think of some dodgy 1970s dance troop…horrible mental image of Froome in leg-warmers and leotard…

 

[thehog]

Is this for real? Tell me someone is making this up?

This is like something from '2012', for God's sake. 'Podium people' just makes me think of some dodgy 1970s dance troop…horrible mental image of Froome in leg-warmers and leotard…

It's like those lame corporate motivational posters from he 80's.

It ties in nicely with Brailsford infomercials playing on late night TV. 1-800-BRAILSFORD - You too can be a Tour de France winner wih Brailsford Self Help Guides.

 

[Energy Starr]

I wish LA could come back and ride for Sky....

 

[Electress]

It's like those lame corporate motivational posters from he 80's.

It ties in nicely with Brailsford infomercials playing on late night TV. 1-800-BRAILSFORD - You too can be a Tour de France winner wih Brailsford Self Help Guides.

Can someone please photoshop a poster of a cyclist having a blood transfusion with 'winning behaviours' over the top.

What do you think the 'principle' (?!) of 'culture and core' actually means?

 

[thehog]

Can someone please photoshop a poster of a cyclist having a blood transfusion with 'winning behaviours' over the top.

What do you think the 'principle' (?!) of 'culture and core' actually means?

LOL! and "The human mind"... what f*** does that mean?

 

[Dear Wiggo]

Podium people makes me think of podium girls.

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

Let's not induce another 10 pages of bot trolling and instead enjoy this quiet moment of laughing at sky nonsense.

I wonder what Walsh official job description was.

That's not milk on David Walsh's lips.

 

[blackcat]

they cant even do alliterations with elan. its no Adam Zwar. who is adam zwar? you dont know adam zwar, but it is no adam zwar

 

[DirtyWorks]

Is this for real? Tell me someone is making this up?

This is like something from '2012', for God's sake. 'Podium people' just makes me think of some dodgy 1970s dance troop…horrible mental image of Froome in leg-warmers and leotard…

This is why I'm so excited for 2015. I can't even come up with a terrible analogy it's so terrible.

The jokers on the management committee must be living on some other planet.

2015 is going to be AWESOME.

 

[D-Queued]

I wish LA could come back and ride for Sky....

Awesome. My eyes are tearing.

Dave.

 

[thehog]

This is why I'm so excited for 2015. I can't even come up with a terrible analogy it's so terrible.

The jokers on the management committee must be living on some other planet.

2015 is going to be AWESOME.

I tend to agree. After they watched Saxo last year Brailsford has to go Def Con 5. Good news for the importers of AICAR.

 

[Electress]

This is why I'm so excited for 2015. I can't even come up with a terrible analogy it's so terrible.

The jokers on the management committee must be living on some other planet.

2015 is going to be AWESOME.

What staggers me is that they seem completely unaware of how this ****e makes them sound. I find their blind-spot in this regard utterly baffling. As you say, it's beyond even satire its so terrible.

I imagine Oleg Tinkoff, self-made millionaire, just wetting himself laughing at the idea that 'all businesses should adopt these principles'.

 

[peloton]

I tend to agree. After they watched Saxo last year Brailsford has to go Def Con 5. Good news for the importers of AICAR.

Game on

Super-domestique Nicolas Roche has already been sharing Alberto Contador's secrets to Chris Froome since his arrival at Team Sky

Read more at http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news...says-nicolas-roche-154542#OCPMJSHt7FETO17U.99

 

[Beech Mtn]

Roche to Froome (whispered voice): "Alberto says it's not good to ride with your elbows sticking out. He also says f*** aerodynamics - you need to get out of the saddle to attack on a climb. Oh, and AC says watch out for Porte. That little dude is not to be trusted."

 

[the sceptic]

10 days since the last post.. I thought the clinic was obsessed with sky? They even had a win and no one said they were doping

 

[ebandit]

news

no news..............good news!

Mark L

 

[sniper]

no news..............good news!

Mark L

True, zorzoli, leinders...
No investigation..........good investigation!

 

[veganrob]

True, zorzoli, leinders...
No investigation..........good investigation!

These things take time....or until Sky thinks everyone has forgotten.

 

[DirtyWorks]

These things take time....or until Sky thinks everyone has forgotten.

Why you gotta hate on Sky so much? The UCI a spectacular legacy of announcing investigations into controversy and then the matter is never brought up again. Never asked by reporters, nothing. Just vanished from media.

They handled that Leinders thing with grace. Lienders was only tending saddle sores... Oh, and that backdated TUE for Froomie huffing an inhaler on the bike, during a race, with the video feed rolling, was all perfectly within the rules.

This sport is full of integrity.

 

[sniper]

incredible how history repeats.

For Armstrong the superstar athlete, his slavish attention to minute detail is much more than an amusing or frustrating personality quirk. It is a way of life....

"Yeah, I've heard that 'Mr. Millimeter' stuff," he says. "This is a natural obsession.

Chance brought them together, but
attention to detail turned Lance Armstrong and Johan Bruyneel
into one of the most successful rider and coach partnerships in
cycling history...
?We both really want to pay attention to details. We draw
up a plan and never improvise and see how thing go,? he said.

Brailsford coined the phrase "the aggregation of marginal gains", and these five words perfectly illustrate Brailsford's management style. His attention to detail is unparalleled. He was the first manager in cycling to look at each and every area of performance in order to gain an advantage for his athletes over their rivals, and he transferred these methods to Team Sky with similar success.

Brailsford's satisfaction is derived from the self-perpetuating nature of the system he has created, by delegating authority to individuals who share his acuity, drive, restlessness and obsessive attention to detail.

Bruyneel?s approach worked to perfection and was soon being
emulated by other teams.

It has been said that Brailsford's life is utterly consumed by his work but his methods have been so successful that every sport in Britain now aspires to be a paradigm of British Cycling.