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Sarcastic Wet Trout said:Bob Stapleton.
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Bratam said:I say Johan Bruyneel. Surely he has learnt his lesson and can now be trusted to run a clean cycling team ! LOL just kidding
Dear Wiggo said:Didn't like doping or didn't like training and racing hard? Is he earning more now as a manager than a rider? If so, there's the reason he left, not coz he didn't like doping. He's smarter than the average rider and probably saw team managers getting soft and fat and earning more than he did and decided to go another route.
Plus he had a high hct naturally (allegedly) so his doping boost was diminished significantly. His results are not all that great, according to wiki.
It's my theory he just wasn't cut out for the pro rider life and the doping was but a minor component of his inability to stick it out.
Well, I believe that's almost always the case. I can't see how a truly repentant doper would want anything to do with the top level of the sport once he's out.Sarcastic Wet Trout said:Why not former dopers? I would think a repentant doper could be an effective choice as they understand the motivation and mechanics of doping.
There's a certain undercurrent attitude here that once a doper, always a doper. I don't believe that has to be true.
Pantani_lives said:Pope Benedict XVI.
Bratam said:I say Johan Bruyneel. Surely he has learnt his lesson and can now be trusted to run a clean cycling team ! LOL just kidding
armchairclimber said:Brailsford for me. Because he has shown that it can be done and that the TDF can be won with a clean team.
Hi there Hitch, Hog and y'all.
Dear Wiggo said:Brailsford has never won the Tour de France with a clean team ever.
Pantani_lives said:Pope Benedict XVI.
Although...
No Quarterpounder said:Not the junior cyclists I hope...
armchairclimber said:He has. This year. You just don't believe it...which is fine. You're entitled to be ignorant. Time will show me to be right though.
armchairclimber said:Wiggins is clean. Don't know about Froome or Porte, Rogers etc. If SKY are going to be interrogated it should be the Leinders issue. Kerrison, meh, a sideshow. Performance...nothing to see (no performance indicative of doping).
armchairclimber said:The way I have understood this, with regards to Wiggins, is that
1. He has (earlier in his career) been able to compete at a very high level on the track and on the road without ever having to fully train his lactate/anaerobic system....this is all relative of course.
armchairclimber said:2. This would have been his weakness in GTs...he could TT well (ride quickly aerobically) but would be challenged by steep mountains/explosive mountain attacks
6. No way round this...training on long steep hills at altitude to add the peak to the aerobic base.
7. Waste every other rider in the team (including Cav) to drag him up those hills....as aerobically as possible.