Doping

so he hacked his turbo to make it look like he was going faster?

I don't know, we need more information

Man what a hoser. zwift cheating! the mind boggles

"Elite Cyclist for Saint Piran" --> "E-Cheat Cyclist for Saint Piran"

"WE DID IT!!! Sorry if I don't sound super excited in this video, I was pretty speechless. A lot of hard work has gone into this, many hours watching the best zwifters race, trying to pick apart the mechanics, memorising courses and working on my tactics. Special thanks to Ed Laverack for his faultless work all day and to the CyclingHub boys for all their help and advice. This was a perfect example of how you make a plan. Work to that plan, and execute the plan. Thank you to everyone who has messaged me. I'M NATIONAL ZWIFT CHAMPION"

LOLz

I can only imagine lied about his weight or height. But would have thought they weigh competitors on the way to the bike..?

Weight is measured. He talks about skipping breakfast for the weigh in.

So height?
Don’t get why the article is ambiguous

What's height got to do with anything on a turbo? Aren't they all W/kg?

Well there is a setting I guessed it gave a aerodynamic value(!?)
But see turbo thread he’s released a statement

Paula Radcliffe gave an awful interview saying USADA just wanted to make a point after the Coleman case which stunk of "lines to take" from Nike considering Salazar was charged 2 years ago.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/oct/04/sebastian-coe-alberto-salazar-very-british-hypocrisy-athletics

Depends whose paying your pundit....

That's Paula Radcliffe, the woman with the dodgy bio passport readings who set a world record 15 years ago that no-one has even got close to since, despite the massive amounts of doping in women's distance running.

She's the FloJo of marathon running.

Not St Paula! Next you will be suspecting Lord Linford of Christie or Sir John Regis for their amazing and completely natural physiques. Athletics bears no resemblance to nasty dirty cycling, it is treasonous to say otherwise, the Tower awaits you.

The worst of it is that the repulsive little poltician and apologist, Coe, really was ennobled.

Re. The edoping... according to the guardian, he built a bot that let him cycle at 2000w in the run up to the competition, thus unlocking some special in-game bike that apparently gives you an unfair advantage?

I thought zwift racing was a pure w/kg game?

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/oct/04/first-british-eracing-champion-banned-for-using-bot-to-gain-unfair-advantage

Jesus Christ. This is the equivalent of someone using a cheat pass on Goldeneye then passing himself off as an SAS veteran. E-racing... Harrumph.

I thought zwift racing was a pure wanking game

ftfy. I think your keyboard might be broken, you missed out the "an" and "in"

Don’t get why the article is ambiguous

I don't get why anybody gives a fuck. It's hard to work out who is more stupid, the participants for taking it so seriously, the audience for thinking for a moment it wouldn't be riddled with cheating, or the governing bodies for letting their avarice suck them into the whole idiotic idea.

https://edope.bike/other/Brad_Dixon_Cheating_in_eSports_How_to_Cheat_at_Virtual_Cycling_Using_USB_Hacks.pdf

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Tour de Pharmacy has been on my watch wishlist for ages.

Yup, as if it wasn't all silly enough to start with

Looks to be almost unanimous support from his fans on his social media platforms where he’s given his apologies. Filled with a lot of holes too, plenty of people going down the route of claiming BC are stupid for the ban since it’s something anybody can ‘unlock’ so it’s not really an unfair advantage, but I’d say missing the point that that this is the exact reason why he’s ‘cheated’/gained the advantage. Why didn’t he just do the actual stuff to unlock the bike? If he can get to the stage of winning anyway, it should have been a piece of piss to just unlock it normally surely? It’s effectively an ‘e-sport’ at this point, if someone was playing competitive World of Warcraft and cheated with a bot to get a better sword that should take time and grinding to get, then yes they should be removed from their podium, same thing in my eyes.

Why e-sport is not sport. IMO etc.

e-sport is not sport

Opinions vary. I take a fairly narrow view, in which a sport is a contest of physical performance governed by mutually agreed rules between two or more competitors or teams in which the outcome is determined by objectively measurable criteria. Technically, Zwifting meets that definition. You might think the rules are silly, or that it's wide open to cheating and poorly organised to deter or detect such cheating, but that just makes it a dumb sport, not a non-sport.

I'm not sure I would have such specific lines. There are plenty of subjectively measured sports - diving, half-pipe, gymnastics. But you're probably right in that it's a dumb sport.
Mine are pretty arbitrary - Ice dance, rhythmic gymnastics, dressage... Darts. Not sports for me. I'm sure they need skill and commitment but fall outside my line.

I'd imagine you being good at Dressage.