Angliru said:Uran did get the second step on the podium at the Tour after leaving Sky. Porte had a lot of success in major week long stage races but of course he still can't finish what he starts in grand tours.
Random Direction said:JV needs to form a partnership with Tesla to keep up
thehog said:<<<SNIP>>>
The high cost of large severance payments for ex-employees, Froome’s defense bill, Wiggins fallout PR took its toll. Cheating became too expensive for Sky. Freeman’s suspension coming up soon would have been the last straw. Best to get ahead of the curve and let Wiggins and co. fight it out in the media.
Now all theses crappy doms who thought they had talent will be really crap and have to take a 20% pay cut at their next team - if they can find a next team.
Benotti69 said:Angliru said:Uran did get the second step on the podium at the Tour after leaving Sky. Porte had a lot of success in major week long stage races but of course he still can't finish what he starts in grand tours.
Porte is an abject failure.
Uran did ok. But he may have won the Giro that Wiggins phucked up.
Not really. Sure Porte was great in the one week stage races and as a domestique, but each time he had a chance to ride for himself at a GT he fell apart - see the 2014 TdF and 2015 Giro.simoni said:Benotti69 said:Angliru said:Uran did get the second step on the podium at the Tour after leaving Sky. Porte had a lot of success in major week long stage races but of course he still can't finish what he starts in grand tours.
Porte is an abject failure.
Uran did ok. But he may have won the Giro that Wiggins phucked up.
No sky agenda, but I like to call out crap when I see it. And this is crap. I
TourOfSardinia said:Kick a team when it is down?
Blythe: We race on passion at Lotto not bullsh*t marginal gains
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/blythe-we-race-on-passion-at-lotto-not-***-marginal-gains/
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Blythe talks as though he's a rider with Boonenesque palmares rather than someone who got a job at Lotto because Ben Swift turned them down.TourOfSardinia said:Kick a team when it is down?
Blythe: We race on passion at Lotto not bullsh*t marginal gains
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/blythe-we-race-on-passion-at-lotto-not-***-marginal-gains/
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CTQ said:TourOfSardinia said:Kick a team when it is down?
Blythe: We race on passion at Lotto not bullsh*t marginal gains
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/blythe-we-race-on-passion-at-lotto-not-***-marginal-gains/
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a kind of marginal gains perharps........http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/lotto-soudal-boss-defends-ethics-as-de-gendt-uses-altitude-tent-ahead-of-dauphine/
rick james said:Ok
Marginal gain with Sky = win **** loads
Adam Blythe speak about no marginal gains *** = he’s won f#ck all
Next question please
"my mate"gillan1969 said:rick james said:Ok
Marginal gain with Sky = win **** loads
Adam Blythe speak about no marginal gains *** = he’s won f#ck all
Next question please
my mate drinks ten pints then always blames the fresh air when he leaves the pub for him feeling....er...'tired and emotional'
so...question...is it the fresh air or is it the pints?![]()
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rick james said:CTQ said:TourOfSardinia said:Kick a team when it is down?
Blythe: We race on passion at Lotto not bullsh*t marginal gains
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/blythe-we-race-on-passion-at-lotto-not-***-marginal-gains/
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a kind of marginal gains perharps........http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/lotto-soudal-boss-defends-ethics-as-de-gendt-uses-altitude-tent-ahead-of-dauphine/
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Geraint Thomas says cycling now ‘one of the cleanest sports around’
Robert5091 said:https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2...ctor-richard-freeman-medical-tribunal-delayed
Geraint Thomas says cycling now ‘one of the cleanest sports around’
Ok, the Mods can close down the Clinic! G has spoken.
The Hegelian said:This Freeman thing is pretty big. If he's gets suspended then we have hard, legal, substantive and irrefutable evidence of doping practices at BS and Sky.
That has always been the retort by the defenders: "Show me the actual evidence."
Well, be careful what you wish for!
How many bullets have been dodged so far? Sooner or later, one will get through, and I reckon this will be the one.
MartinGT said:The Hegelian said:This Freeman thing is pretty big. If he's gets suspended then we have hard, legal, substantive and irrefutable evidence of doping practices at BS and Sky.
That has always been the retort by the defenders: "Show me the actual evidence."
Well, be careful what you wish for!
How many bullets have been dodged so far? Sooner or later, one will get through, and I reckon this will be the one.
He could get suspended for a manner of things, it doesnt mean that it HARD evidence of Sky doping IMO.
The Hegelian said:It's loads of testosterone covertly delivered to the head cycling doctor in the bloody main British Cycling velodrome!
Does anyone seriously think it is some weird tin-foil-hat conspiracy to make an inference about doping?? Bearing in mind of course, the British Parliament itself initiated this, and it is being pursued by the medical board.
You have to be rather tin-foil-hat to infer otherwise.