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I presume they all are so, yesPidcock is insanely good alright. I didn't think he'd transition out of Cross this fast.
I dunno... does everyone just presume he's doping?
I don't :-/
British, Sky, yep doperI dunno... does everyone just presume he's doping?
I mean I reckon as soon as you hear 'Team Sky' then you automatically assume "So doper then"Yeah. I guess it's hard to justify why you might think anyone might be clean.
Presumed guilty, until proven innocent. And it's impossible to prove any of them are not dopers.
Dunno.
I'm sorry you can't dream big and I'm sorry you don't believe in miracles.
the exception on the young riders stuff being Mark Scanlon. What a pure raw talent he was as a kid. Clearly the best cyclist in the world in his category. He frequently handed Bradley Wiggins hole to him in races, and he was snapped up by a pro team (Ag2R).@nuke terrorist
how about this for a partial explanation:
young riders always had the potential to be good, but they were treated like shiiiiiiiiiiii <breath> hiiiiiiiiit for their first few years until they learned the ropes and so on.
It was the expectation that they were going to struggle that played a huge part in them struggling. There was this trial by fire, earning your place, being a triple hard bastard, sitting in the wind, sleeping on the shit bed, being your own mechanic, and so on, plus the newness, that ensured they were always under the hammer in their early years.
And, even then, occasionally a rider like LeMond would come over and immediately ride very very well.
Like, it clearly looks like nothing we've seen before, but it might just have been because of the shit capers they used to put the neo pros through. Old thinking basically.
But yeah, it's really confusing. I've been thinking it over since last year and the above is the best I've come up with.
I mean, yeah, there's always the blanket "because doping"... who knows.
Yeah. I remember Mark.As far as I know he took up surfing in Sligo, and opened a surf rental place in one of the popular surfing areas.
I keep laughing at how Russia have been kicked out of athletics for 'systematic doping', but if you just look up the medal table from the last Olympics, the Americans won basically 3 times as many medals as them. So the Russians are 'systematically doping', but the Americans and Brits keep beating them in events. Yeah, good one lads.have to laugh at teams falling foul of covid testing, but they are experts at 'passing' dope tests.
we got Fancy Bears out of it though that has been very entertaining.I keep laughing at how Russia have been kicked out of athletics for 'systematic doping', but if you just look up the medal table from the last Olympics, the Americans won basically 3 times as many medals as them. So the Russians are 'systematically doping', but the Americans and Brits keep beating them in events. Yeah, good one lads.
surprised he still had to go that close to the end. That could be why it was caught on telly. Theres a kind of 'unwritten' rule that the cameras won't film when they go for a slash. You often see cyclists pulling off to the side in a quiet spot, and usually when one pulls over, a load will go with him, so they can all empty the bladders, and ride together to catch up. But I reckon that would be all out of the way before they reach 100km to go. The camera people probably weren't expecting it, hence wrongly filming him.at 59.1 km to go in Fleche Wallonne today Jakob Fuglsang was filmed live on TV taking a piss while on his bike.
amazingly I'd never seen this happen in a race before despite it being common practice
Jakob was filmed by the TV moto at back of the peloton. he dropped back so no one else would get a showersurprised he still had to go that close to the end. That could be why it was caught on telly. Theres a kind of 'unwritten' rule that the cameras won't film when they go for a slash. You often see cyclists pulling off to the side in a quiet spot, and usually when one pulls over, a load will go with him, so they can all empty the bladders, and ride together to catch up. But I reckon that would be all out of the way before they reach 100km to go. The camera people probably weren't expecting it, hence wrongly filming him.
Thats only a guess. I didn't see any of the race today.
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