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What’s your theory behind Schlecks rapid decline then? I always assumed he was on the sauce and once he stopped he wasn’t at all competitive.
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The broken pelvis he suffered in 2012 essentially ended his career, he never fully recovered from that.
I’ve no idea if he doped or not, just the same as Phil Gaimon. You can link him to doping facilitators, but that’s true for most of his generation. What was clear was that he was talented from the off, he finished second in his first GT, which is usually taken as having natural talent.
Who knows though, apart from him?
andyp
I think you mean he doesn't pull any punches? (To pull a punch means to soften the blow on the recipient).
You can see why Slipstream don't win many races, if they are doing petty things like that all the time. (You can argue the EPO era ended in 2007/08 with the advent of the biological passport, Andy Schleck won the Tour in 2010, so it's bullshit anyway).