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Froome’s ride got compared to Landis. As I was watching it unfold I was thinking about Contador’s race-winning attack in the Vuelta a few years back. And after I can’t help think if Contador has done it everyone would be purring.
Instead they raise the ghost of Landis. A rider with potential but at the time barely more than a domestique. He cracked the day before, lost time, dosed up and ride over 8 cols solo against the combined wrath of a doped peloton.
So a shite comparison to Froome. Winner on the Zoncolan, strong in the ITT, still in fourth and the leader of the race riding beyond himself.
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I read that too, not a good comparison as Landis was the strongest rider all race ( be it doped up ) who had one ‘jour sans’ and followed it up with an unbelievable feat. Froome’s performance was all over the place in this Giro.
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He cracked the day before, lost time, dosed up and ride over 8 cols solo against the combined incompetence of a doped Telekom team
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peter_v
gbj_tester
Sorry man, I wasn’t that much into posting on forums about doping issues back then. Maybe ‘people like me’ weren’t either.
Contador got his titles stripped and served his ban.
Double the amount of salbutamol allowed vs an almost intracable amount of clenbuterol is something to think about too, now you’re bringing it up.