Tour de France 2015

Much like tom boonen then ?

What a way to ruin ones career the plum

Mildly amusing that this is the drug that Paolini got popped for.

Paolini... Wtf

Oh no! It's not entirely contrary to his partyboy persona I suppose. Disappointing.

Who was that other well known Italian coke-head rider who's career went downhill faster than he could climb uphill?

I must be fuckin naive, I've never taken coke, but how would it make you go faster!!!!

Have we had Cav's daughter high fiving Greipel yet?

https://twitter.com/TV2SPORTdk/status/619540166965899264

I must be fuckin naive, I've never taken coke, but how would it make you go faster!!!!

Possibly by letting the rider ignore his limits so he pushes on harder than normal.

Read Paul Kimmage's book about riders and their 'boosting' shenanigans.

Perhaps he has eaten some Peruvian cough sweets/lit some Peruvian candles. Or been to the dentist.

I blame the Colombians...

So when he won Wevelgem, howling wind, pissing rain and he's pushing 53x11 it's coke that did it, fuck me I must be naive!!!

http://www.theonion.com/video/breaking-tour-de-france-on-hold-as-cyclists-ride-o-36474

did this too..

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dubtap in reply to @andyp re: Cav contract renewal
He can join the rest of the washed-up sprinters at MTN -Quebeka :)

This may be happening

Paolini you fucking numpty, I was just banging on tonight in front of the highlights about what a dude he was for winning Ghent-Wevelgem in the worst weather and now this, kicked off for blow. Will all our heros fall? What's next, G. Thomas getting suspended for bringing Billy Bong Thorton onto the Sky bus?

Got to agree, what a prick!!!

If it's not Dutch it's one of the Belgian languages.

Or Danish.

Definitely not running it through Google Translate though.

G-W was, and still is, one of the best races this year. Paolini's extracurricular activities have had no impact on that for me.

And @adroit won this thread. Maybe all threads.

From Boulting's 101 Damnations: http://t.co/UHBPkQSqCc

i havent seen the clip, but the guy is wilfried de jong, a dutch journalist so reckon its in dutch.

they had a very nice sports programme called holland sport and one of the features was "the massage table" in which athletes were wheeled into studio in a towel on a massage table.

they were mostly the ones with scars everywhere and then casually talking bout broken ligament this, dislocated bone there.

the fact that they were there in less then their underwear really made for intrigueging conversations. shame it finished after like 1,5 decade.

that journalist then went to do "summer guests", one of the most prestigious journalistic items on dutch tv spanning a couple of sunday summer nights where a range of guests show clips and talk about it. quality tv, people stay home for it. shows the quality of the journalist too. reckon your average "sports journalist" would be able to pull that off?

wow. much banter, many tldr

Friebe, who is close to Cavendish, says it'll be a choice between Etixx, MTN-Qhubeka or Trek.

If that's true then Leferve should be able to get him for some cheap laminate flooring, a mattress or two and some out of date energy products.