Will Contador Be Juiced Up Again Upon His Return

[hrotha]

Who called you a Froome fan? Can't I joke about how ridiculous Froome is without addressing it at someone?

You say we see things in black and white, and yet you're the one who's confident to say who's talentless and who isn't, who's 100% clean and who isn't.

 

[Berzin]

Stop with the sniping and stay on-topic. This isn't the Froome thrread.

 

[LaFlorecita]

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Contador is entertaining to watch.

Um...so were Ricco, Pantani and Vinokurov.

Easy to be exciting when doped to the gills. Harder when less so. Clentadoppucci NEVER attacked in 2013. He sat on his saddle and submitted. Imagine if that had been his entire career. His natural talent makes him as exciting as Zoetemelk.

Lol!

He never attacked in 2013? Oh man, you must not have been paying attention. I distinctly remember him attacking in San Luis, Oman, Tirreno, Dauphine, TDF and even the Canadian races

 

[LaFlorecita]

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Who called you a Froome fan? Can't I joke about how ridiculous Froome is without addressing it at someone?

You say we see things in black and white, and yet you're the one who's confident to say who's talentless and who isn't, who's 100% clean and who isn't.

Very good point, hrotha.

I hope Big Doopie's head doesn't explode when Berto does the double

 

[SkyTears]

watch the new doping masters Astana & Aru making a fool of the old doper Berto

p.s. i like Berto and i hope he wins Giro. Aru & Uran & Porte looks like 2nd tier riders, would be a pitty that such a nice trophy to end to some wannabe.

 

[Cookster15]

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Contador is entertaining to watch.

Um...so were Ricco, Pantani and Vinokurov.

Easy to be exciting when doped to the gills. Harder when less so. Clentadoppucci NEVER attacked in 2013. He sat on his saddle and submitted. Imagine if that had been his entire career. His natural talent makes him as exciting as Zoetemelk.

Lol!

Harder but not impossible. Contador attacked plenty in the 2011 TDF - widely accepted as the cleanest looking and more exciting Tour of recent times. You don't have to be doped to attack or be entertaining to watch. Whether the attack sticks or not is a different question.

 

[mrhender]

You reckon he has some TUEs going right now?

 

[peloton]

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You reckon he has some TUEs going right now?

Without a doubt. He shouldn't?

 

[mrhender]

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You reckon he has some TUEs going right now?

Without a doubt. He shouldn't?

Of course he should...

I mean who wouldn't?

I just wondered that he may have every reason to exaggerate the injury so that he can get more medical support then usually...

If being physically supported by various TUEs could lower the retracts from his natural repositories then it may even better his chances at the TDF...

I ain't sure of nothing.. Just speculating here...

 

[Netserk]

He should get some cortisone.

It helps that Tinkoff isn't MPCC.

 

[LaFlorecita]

http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/racing/giro-ditalia/alberto-contador-only-taking-ibuprofen-for-giro-shoulder-injury-172063

“No, at the moment nothing [he doesn’t need any medicine]. An anti-inflammatory is possible, like Ibuprofen, but nothing special,” Doctor de Moor told Cycling Weekly.

“Tramadol is just a painkiller, he would be a lot better with an anti-inflammatory. Tramadol only works in the brain to bring down the pain, that’s not a solution."

Tinkoff-Saxo, however, would not come clean on the thorny subject of TUEs. De Moor, in the heat of the morning sun in Italy’s south today, explained that Contador would not need one for his shoulder injury, but did not go further when asked about using a TUE for other reasons.

“We are talking about the shoulder. I don’t comment on this,” de Moor said.

“[TUEs are only] if you need some special treatment, if Alberto needs injections, or some special pills, then you need to ask for a TUE, a lot of the other things is just a declaration, if you have an allergy or whatever.”

Asked again about Contador using TUEs, he said, “I’m not going to comment on this.”

 

[The_Cheech]

Re:

You reckon he has some TUEs going right now?

For what? To treat the shoulder? No, he doesn't.

I don't know about anything else, but do tell if you know anything.

 

[meat puppet]

translation: AC is on the full fear and loathing in las vegas mix.

 

[GuyIncognito]

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translation: AC is on the full fear and loathing in las vegas mix.

Who did he kill for the adrenochrome?

 

[SkyTears]

so he has a TUE

otherwise his doc will simply say it "has no TUE" + it could add to the living legend

you can bet your house on him, he will trash the competition at leisure, when necesary

 

[LaFlorecita]

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so he has a TUE

otherwise his doc will simply say it "has no TUE" + it could add to the living legend

you can bet your house on him, he will trash the competition at leisure, when necesary

Contador has a TUE for allergy medication I am quite sure.

 

[The Hitch]

Doesn't matter much imo whether he has a TUE.

I don't know why people on here are so obsessed about TUE's when the drugs you will get via TUE have a tiny tiny tiny effect compared to the drugs these guys are using to go this fast.

They are blood doping and weight loss doping in plain site but people seem most interested in some flu tablets.

 

[Big Doopie]

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Doesn't matter much imo whether he has a TUE.

I don't know why people on here are so obsessed about TUE's when the drugs you will get via TUE have a tiny tiny tiny effect compared to the drugs these guys are using to go this fast.

They are blood doping and weight loss doping in plain site but people seem most interested in some flu tablets.

agree 100%.

i also imagine clentadopucci is still in contact with his buddy garcia del moral (ironic name if ever!) - just as pharmstrong was still in collaboration with ferrari.

http://velonews.competitor.com/2012/10/news/contador-garcia-del-moral-speak-out-against-postal-service-vilification_262518

and where are those allergies that so ruined his performance at the dauphine in 2013?

mysteriously unaffected.

the guy lies about EVERYTHING:
allergies: lie.
broken leg: lie.
dislocated shoulder (not once but twice!): lie.
about doping: lie.

the guy has never ridden without doping, a doping DS, a doping doctor, a team owner who encourages doping...

but the panty-sniffing adoration he gets from the CN forums beggars belief.

meanwhile pinot attacks and wins a stage. a guy who rides for a french team. is tested by french ada. lives in france under french doping laws. has been good since he was young - his very first tdf. publishes his very reasonable blood parameters and power stats. hardly a single comment in support.

no wonder cycling is serially fu$ked.

it's the fan's fault.

 

[movingtarget]

The French don't dope. They have not won the Tour for 30 years. They don't win much so how can they be doping ? Does anyone actually believe that sort of thing ? The problem is that the French dopers are not as talented as the rest of the dopers. Rolland was going to win the Tour. No he isn't. Pinot and Bardet probably won't win a Tour either.

 

[Netserk]

Now we just need a post whining about how big bad doper Contador steals wins from the clean Hesjedal and Rolland...

 

[burning]

Oh snap, I thought Europcar were cleans in 2011 and 2012. Looks like I was wrong.

 

[LaFlorecita]

At least Big Doopie can tell us when Alberto is lying. Stop speculating about it, guys, just listen to Big Doopie!

 

[DirtyWorks]

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the guy lies about EVERYTHING:
allergies: lie.
broken leg: lie.
dislocated shoulder (not once but twice!): lie.
about doping: lie.

the guy has never ridden without doping, a doping DS, a doping doctor, a team owner who encourages doping...

but the panty-sniffing adoration he gets from the CN forums beggars belief.

The "broken leg" was overblown by the cycling media. A bone injury of some kind, but not "bolted back together with a rod and cast" kind of thing the story really grew to become.

Contador is good for cycling. The UCI has a sport to grow and Contador seems to attract an audience across the world. Doping? TUEs? They don't matter. They've got a sport to grow.

Meanwhile, many, many cycling viewers are either okay with doping or completely ignorant. The UCI wants the latter, not the former.

 

[hrotha]

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The "broken leg" was overblown by the cycling media.

The media didn't force Contador to "bid farewell to the Vuelta", all melodramatic and stuff. Or to walk around the Giro finish lines with a stiff shoulder mere minutes after using it to carry his weight on the bike.

The guy likes his theatrics.

 

[LaFlorecita]

So he might exaggerate a bit. That doesn't mean he (and the doctors) just make up an injury.