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BlankSystemDaemon posted:Heck yeah, let's see Pogacar come back with a team and have both of the teams setting up for these kinds of multi-contingency plans where there's riders in front, riders behind, and lots of stuff happening. Vingegaard looked so strong on the big mountains that maybe he still wins even if UAE wasn't losing riders left and right, but it would definitely be a different challenge. You wonder if next year they make Almeida ride for Pogacar as a super-domestique.
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gohuskies posted:Vingegaard looked so strong on the big mountains that maybe he still wins even if UAE wasn't losing riders left and right, but it would definitely be a different challenge. You wonder if next year they make Almeida ride for Pogacar as a super-domestique. Almeida seems like the sort of guy who wouldn't be up for that at all. Maybe a massive pay raise would change his mind though!
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gohuskies posted:I don't know how much or what doping the pros may or may not be doing but regardless I am pretty confident that the testing being run by the anti-doping agencies is mostly ineffective. The Portugese FC Porto guys (who are the most obviously doped riders in the universe, they are conti guys putting up Pogacar-level watts/kilo numbers that no legit team will touch with a ten foot pole) were bragging just recently about how they were passing all the doping tests and this proved they were a clean team, right up until they got raided by the cops with all sorts of drugs in their possession. If even they can beat the tests, the WT teams could easily do so if they wanted to. The W52/Porto guys actually triggered on the blood passport and some targeted tests I think. Or at least that's what I could gather from a badly translated article.
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Loving Africa Chaps posted:The W52/Porto guys actually triggered on the blood passport and some targeted tests I think. Or at least that's what I could gather from a badly translated article. Porto claims they passed tests and passport in April but that was also after a police investigation was already begun and obviously they are a team of liars so IDK https://cyclinguptodate.com/cycling/w52-fc-porto-confirm-negative-urine-and-blood-tests-in-doping-control
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gohuskies posted:Vingegaard looked so strong on the big mountains that maybe he still wins even if UAE wasn't losing riders left and right, but it would definitely be a different challenge. You wonder if next year they make Almeida ride for Pogacar as a super-domestique. Three weeks ago everyone thought Pog could solo the tour and it turns out he couldn't. Vingegaard looked incredible this year but it's never a sure thing. Still, I'm looking forward to the coming years of these two battling it out. Also, the tour isn't over yet! I feel like G has at least one inexplicable crash left in him and maybe Vingegaard will ride over a bidon or something. e: Anyone think Roglic is going to ride the tour next year? I can't see him being ready to accept the role of domestique yet. Maybe take another shot at the Giro? colonel tom fucked around with this message at 23:06 on Jul 21, 2022 |
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Feels Villeneuve posted:I'd love to see Roglic do a giro, this year's was tame as hell in part due to the low competition and the two favorites riding defensively Yeah, it's weird because I often find the giro to be a bit more interesting than the tour, given (froome era excepted) it tends to have the riders who aren't in contention for the tour, so there are more interesting dynamics / better chances of actually combative riding. This year the opposite was true. I am trying not to be too optimistic about the next few years based on one interesting tour, but if tJV and UAE keep it up we could be in for a few years of fun.
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The Bernal Giro was great, Bernal beasting the second week and then having Dani Martinez drag him up the final climb on the third week was great TV.
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gohuskies posted:Even big sports - the NFL suspends somebody like 4 to 6 games for a PED violation, that's a total slap on the wrist. At least the NFL occasionally punishes someone though, my favourite example for wilful ignorance will always be the other kind of football. The most popular and most profitable sport in the world by far, always trying their hardest to not test for anything, literally never catching anyone, their official position is "we never have any positive tests because every single one of the tens of thousands of pro players are just good people who would never do such a thing" and sport journalists all over Europe are like "yeah that sounds completely believable great job another 100% clean year of football".
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Peggotty posted:At least the NFL occasionally punishes someone though, my favourite example for wilful ignorance will always be the other kind of football. The most popular and most profitable sport in the world by far, always trying their hardest to not test for anything, literally never catching anyone, their official position is "we never have any positive tests because every single one of the tens of thousands of pro players are just good people who would never do such a thing" and sport journalists all over Europe are like "yeah that sounds completely believable great job another 100% clean year of football". Also for a cool decade or so the pre-eminent tactic was based on massively outrunning your opponent, never yielding possession, and literally walking the ball into the goal. But at least none of the teams involved had ties to Fuentes
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Superman is in super big trouble https://twitter.com/ciclo21/status/1550192324264828929?t=WMh7X1QEuVHn0WxPixy6AQ&s=19 Arrested for drug trafficking.
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Loving Africa Chaps posted:Superman is in super big trouble Was he the guy who joined Movistar for like 3 months, poo poo the bed about something, pissed everyone off and was gone soon after? I was struggling to think of his name the other day.
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LoudPipesSaveLives posted:Was he the guy who joined Movistar for like 3 months, poo poo the bed about something, pissed everyone off and was gone soon after? I was struggling to think of his name the other day. Aye, at la vuelta. He was caught behind in a split on the penultimate stage, but his team told him not to work to defend his podium position as his team mate Enric Mas (also on the podium) was in the group ahead. So he quit the race and had his contract terminated.
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https://twitter.com/AstanaQazTeam/status/1550390695432785923 one bad egg, surely 
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Angryhead posted:https://twitter.com/AstanaQazTeam/status/1550390695432785923 lmao christ. Turns out I dislike Lopez enough that this whole thing is just plain funny peanut- posted:Looking at today's stage profile wondering how Pog can get 4 minutes. Pretty sure that would involve literal murder
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Enric Mas is no mas, because of covid. Kind of funny how there are somewhere between 1 and 3 covid abandons every day and it's just like "eh"
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Smirr posted:Pretty sure that would involve literal murder Apparently there might be crosswinds.
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peanut- posted:Looking at today's stage profile wondering how Pog can get 4 minutes. Smirr posted:Pretty sure that would involve literal murder Smirr posted:there are somewhere between 1 and 3 covid abandons every day and it's just like "eh" 
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There’s a not insignificant chance that Pog actually had covid given that his teammates had it. We’ll never know though
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If he had covid at any point in the last month and still did the ride he did yesterday he's a goddamn superman.
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Literally Lewis Hamilton posted:Is this another protest? I'm protesting about the Michael Matthews
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Sorry i was probated yesterday but 'Meintjes' is never pronounced as 'menkies', that's just english media being terrible at pronouncing anything that isn't english
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^^ He's south african, not dutchserious gaylord posted:Bikes have the unfortunate history of people actually getting caught. You never hear about Tennis or Football when its 100% just as bad if not worse than 90's cycling. People dropping dead mid-match due to heart failure has been going on a lot in football for the past 20 years Literally Lewis Hamilton posted:I’m fine with the break winning as long as it’s not Simmons 
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Those loving glasses on Honore
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