Big Doopie said:
nibali did not look like he was breathing. his mouth was closed on the second to last mountain, while others were suffering.
when you compare that with the much more human nibali we had seen only days before, it was really striking.
you can say what you want about SK's crash and Chavito (god, I love that guy) 's wearing down. it was the complete ease of dominance, the closed mouth (at 2700 m altitude) and the general body expression after what we had just seen from him, that was absolutely stunning.
what was unfortunate is that it destroyed what had been a very exciting, very 1980's style race...
you add that to the almost agressively unapolgetic vino. to astana's connection to ferrari. to nibali cheating FLAGRANTLY and OUTRAGEOUSLY during last year's vuelta. to aru's magical revival at giro 2015. to nibali's magical revival at tdf 2015....
u simply cannot believe at all.
It is ridiculous to conclude that someone is flagrantly cheating just because he seems like he is not breathing..
If Kruiswijk did not crash, stayed in the race and kept his power numbers up then nobody would be talking about a 'miraculous' resurrection of Nibali. Kruiswijk would have at least stayed with or dropped Nibali if he could keep up his power numbers from the stages in the dolomites. Would everybody then be concluding Kruiswijk was fragrantly doping?
Try to look at things objectively instead of always these prejudices about Italian, spanish, russian etc riders. I really do not see why Nibali who is a proven GT winner is more suspicious than Kruiswijk who has outperformed all of his previous achievements.
I am not saying Nibali does not dope but I do not see why his performance was extra ordinary relative to other riders? He did not even get up to 6W/kg on any climb for longer than 5 minutes while kruiswijk got 6W/kg for 28minutes.