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Oldman said:Unidentified PED testing is in the wind and some riders may be worried.
Several high profile Tour candidates are already out with injuries. Who do you think is next and what will be their affliction?
List for now:
Boonen-tendonitis
Haussler-knee injury
peloton said:Lame.
Mods close this, thanks.
TeamSkyFans said:I think this thread could have been put up in the normal forum and just been an injury thread. no need to bring ped rumours into it really unless there is genuine doubt.
Kodiak said:Kind of hard to discredit those two this season after the wrecks they had. I doubt it's due to the PED Testing.
Oldman said:Peloton-I didn't say these two guys are opting out for PED's as they have been thrashed. It reminded me of how many riders have been laying low in races or in training camps. It's a legitimate question.
Winterfold said:There are some stages which are really suited to both these guys this year, and give them a realistic chance of wearing yellow for a few days. And both of them are riders who MTFU when required.
I think they are both genuinely too injured to take part.
That said, I kind of agree with the broad thrust of your hypothesis, that there will be a few dropouts if eg the AFLD are going to come in hard, but I dont think these are the most likely miscreants.
Oldman said:Unidentified PED testing is in the wind and some riders may be worried.
Several high profile Tour candidates are already out with injuries. Who do you think is next and what will be their affliction?
List for now:
Boonen-tendonitis
Haussler-knee injury
Mambo95 said:You're absolutely right.
But you haven't mentioned others. Kim Kirchen and Johnny Bellis have gone to the lengths of nearly dying as an excuse. Brad McGee is claiming that he's retired. Andre Griepel has been desperately showing he's not as good as Cavendish to avoid the testers. Whole teams - Vacansoliel and Skil are claiming that they "weren't invited", which seems a little bit too convenient to me. Valverde is even taking a two year sabbatical to dodge a positive.
Seriously, you're an idiot. If the were doping and they didn't want to be caught doping, they'd just stop doping. It's better to do the Tour badly clean, than not at all isn't it?
If you want to make it fairly obvious you've been a doper, maybe.Mambo95 said:Seriously, you're an idiot. If the were doping and they didn't want to be caught doping, they'd just stop doping. It's better to do the Tour badly clean, than not at all isn't it?
Beech Mtn said:Well there's Andy's problem - he was following Frank over the big bump in the road. Everybody knows Frank's descending prowess.He probably chose the wrong line over the bump and Andy followed, leading to disaster.