Certainly all that training remotely in Colombia and avoiding racedays is paying off
Colombia is not remote for Colombians
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Certainly all that training remotely in Colombia and avoiding racedays is paying off
Colombia is not remote for Colombians
Except he didn’t mean Colombia is a remote place to train in.Colombia is not remote for Colombians
Except he didn’t mean Colombia is a remote place to train in.
He meant remote as in not riding with his team or in Europe not he was camping in the middle of nowhere with just his bike.not even a remote place to LIVE in, since his home and family are there.
he was at his fhuking HOME.
Out of competition testing is a joke right now. You can even skip out on those test. 3 strike rule, pfft. Look at the British woman that skipped out on 3 tests and was not sanctioned.
Maybe you check the figures for OOC testing before making sweeping statements.
OOC testing is a joke. Skip test to your hearts content. What's going to happen? The violators will walk with some bogus excuse. Talk to Armistead, Longo, Froome, Cavendish or Farah (who incidentally won 2 gold medals in London 2012 after his misses). They will tell you how to get away with skipping tests. Those are the ones we know about since the data is not made public.
Are you privy to the 2020 and 2021 numbers? They are not posted on WADA's website. We know very well OOC testing was way down in 2020. Reported to be down about 90%.
"The CADF 2019 business report, which was published on Friday, revealed that 7,629 out-of-competition tests were carried out on behalf of the body in 2019. In-competition testing brought the overall total of samples collected to 14,333
6,721 out-of-competition tests were carried out on professional male riders (3,297 urine tests, 3,251 biological passport tests and 173 other blood tests). The CADF carried out a further 3,222 in-competition tests on male professional riders, for an overall total of 9,943 tests.
The CADF noted that it had collected a total of 2,200 samples in 2020 before the coronavirus pandemic interrupted the season, including 1,250 out-of-competition controls."
https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/ca...petition-testing-during-coronavirus-lockdown/
I would expect they are testing more this year. That doesn't change the fact that you can skip out on test with zero penalty.
Not to mention the fact that he kept fighting though to the finish line after pulling off the front. That came after closing a big gap on the descent at least partly on his own and repeatedly closing more small gaps to stay with Bernal once he got back on as well.This is a laugh and a half. Dropped several times on the descent burning matches to catch up. Then bang motor is put on and drops Yates and Almedia like they're Cat 3s
Martinez just ridiculous.
He got the 2020 Giro Rohan Dennis mountain-goat prep training.Martinez only dropped for optics. He could've easily have followed Bernal. The freak show goes on.
INB4 hE hAs aLwAyS bEEn a gOOd cLImBeR.