I object to this but I will do this in Dutch and per PM.Franklin said:There is at least one link with Epo (Draaijer).
PDM became the team of Virenque, and yet they were not the prime EPO boys, dottore Rijckaert was not the bad man as projected by the mainstream media.Franklin said:Had they not had the intralipid affair they certainly would have been the first big Epo team. Of that I have no doubt at all.
Breukink was the real deal, untill he saw what was possible on PDM at the 1988 Tour. Mediocre riders like Theunissen winning on bread and butter?Franklin said:It's what makes Breukink a special case. Considering his earlier performances in the Giro he clearly was not someone made by Epo and yet his joining PDM always made me wonder about 1990. The best we can say is that he didn't really transform and that he did podium in the Giro twice pre-epo.
Indurain was a talent at TT, was able to climb a mountain, untill Luz Ardiden 1990 where he followed LeMond without breathing, he never showed top class in the mountains:Franklin said:Breukink, Lemond, Mottet, Indurain, they are the enigma of that era... when did Epo start to show up? GL/CM the clean side, EB the question mark, and MI the adopter... but one who surely was recognized as a GT thoroughbred years before Epo hit the peloton.
EPO/Padilla!