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Mind its very hard to look at Valverde and not feel suspicious
a bit like Phil Gil in 2011, indeed ;)
Mind its very hard to look at Valverde and not feel suspicious
a bit like Phil Gil in 2011, indeed ;)
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I think you have to be really careful to look at performance as a form of proof of doping. That is what the shitheads at the clinic do, and trolls on Twitter, and use, for example, ascent times from twenty years ago against ascent times today and draw definitive conclusions from that.
So ignoring every other variable, from bike weight, bike technology, weather conditions, state of the road, and how many km they have raced getting to that climb.
I mean Gilbert rode away from an elite field and soloed to a Flanders win from 55k out. At 35 years of age. On the surface that sounds unbelievable, but Gilbert has said he didn't intend to and two significant crashes hampered the chasing efforts, taking out four main contenders in the process.
Mind its very hard to look at Valverde and not feel suspicious