The Clinic - TDF 2014 Thread

[go crazy]

This is what makes the clinic so entertaining. Athletes guilt or innocence regarding PED use isn't the point. The clinic would be two pages long if it where. The process of righteously gossiping and speculating is where the fun is.

Sadly, it would be two pages long because so few get caught. But you certainly aren't going to tell us two pages is enough to even list the names of cheaters in all sports, let alone discuss it? What percentage of doped athletes get caught would you say...5%?

 

[D-Queued]

Sadly, it would be two pages long because so few get caught. But you certainly aren't going to tell us two pages is enough to even list the names of cheaters in all sports, let alone discuss it? What percentage of doped athletes get caught would you say...5%?

100% of those caught are doped athletes.

Dave.

 

[sittingbison]

100% of those caught are doped athletes.

Dave.

perhaps not...

...I have the means to make you a rider positive when I want to...

 

[RobbieCanuck]

This is what makes the clinic so entertaining. Athletes guilt or innocence regarding PED use isn't the point. The clinic would be two pages long if it where. The process of righteously gossiping and speculating is where the fun is.

I don't have a problem with this. People just need to quit believing their own un-informed opinions about a rider being a doper, based on some specious and outrageous irrelevancy. And then when they are challenged they go off the deep end of childish defensive behaviour and the whole thing degenerates into a personal vendetta. I can read National Enquirer or Globe for that.

If you are going to slag and defame a rider, it seems only reasonable and civil to have the proof or at least a pretty well reasoned argument.

 

[Red Rick]

The Doctor Is In

Welcome, all physicians, clinical pharmacologists, sports scientists, couriers, blood donors, skeptics and assorted hoi pollio to The Cleanest Tour Ever (Patent Pending).

As a biomedical student, if feel like i've been left out

I'm looking forward to all the dumb stuff that's gonna come out of Froome's mouth and Counds twitter

 

[Red Rick]

I this the tread where we just laugh at clinic-related dumb ****

 

[rainman]

Unidentified Team Sky spokesman just on TV quoted as saying that one of their new performance-enhancing advances was to introduce vegetable juice to the riders - so that they could get all of the vitamins and nutrients, without having to eat all of the heavy parts.

And, no - I'm not kidding. LOL!!

So, Sky's marginal gains now includes: vege juice.

Is it compulsory? That should finish off team morale. Its bad enough being a shuffling zombie by week three without being force fed vegetable juice.

 

[The Hitch]

I don't have a problem with this. People just need to quit believing their own un-informed opinions about a rider being a doper, based on some specious and outrageous irrelevancy. And then when they are challenged they go off the deep end of childish defensive behaviour and the whole thing degenerates into a personal vendetta. I can read National Enquirer or Globe for that.

If you are going to slag and defame a rider, it seems only reasonable and civil to have the proof or at least a pretty well reasoned argument.

If a positive test isn't proof what is

 

[RobbieCanuck]

If a positive test isn't proof what is

Well you are of course correct, but some positives are less positive than others and some are actually negatives. But hey they got Al Capone for tax evasion, which may make it to the Prohibited List, metaphorically speaking.