Pro-cycling thread

The Armstrong/Contador/Valverde school of denial lives on.

My mind boggles

Good to see lots of her fellow competitors calling it out for the bullshit it obviously is.

Wonder what benefit he got from Vaminolact

edit - aaaahhh... it wasn't about Vaminolact, it was about the fact he was accused of having it on an IV. From the sound of it, someone fingered him for it but there was no proof other than "some guy said".

Yep, apologies, by all means go ahead.

I hope she goes fucking shit at the weekend to prove it was all in the 'roids

Really, if she wants us to belive her then state the supplement and the supplier and provide lab evidence. There's really no reason not to.

She should also answer the questions as to why a rider based in the Netherlands needed custom made supplements from a Belgian based pharmacist? What was in the supplements that needed them to be tailor made? Why were her results so much better in the 2018/19 season compared to previous years?

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why a rider based in the Netherlands needed custom made supplements from a Belgian based pharmacist?

I’m sure there’s a perfectly reasonable explanation

Really, if she wants us to belive her then state the supplement and the supplier and provide lab evidence. There's really no reason not to.

Yeah, why leave this supplement unknown for someone else to stumble into go through all this mess?

Oh, because it was contaminated intentionally by her with the fucking steroids she was taking, that's why.

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#rep especially if you did that on a phone

Sorry, no, there's only so many hours in a day I can waste on silly shit :)

Because Belgian team?

Tailor made?

In 2017 she predominantly competed in MTB races (3 victories, 4th at national champs), got 7th in the CX national champs, she started to race CX more seriously (and got a real CX trainer) in 2018/19

She rode 25 cx races in 2017/18, and got decent results, but wasn’t winning races.

The following season she rode more races, close to 40, but her results improved enormously. At her age, such a huge improvement is rare and many people assumed she was doping. If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s probable that it is a duck.

How is it strange that someone switching from MTB (and winning races) to CX improves in the season after getting a specific CX trainer, joining a professional team and putting all of her focus on trying to make it the sport?

She was 26 at the time, not exactly too old to physically improve. And if the power was always there but the technique used to be the problem, usually finishing a minute behind can change into getting across the line first.

Yeah, but she had banned drugs in her body so she could be Peter Sagan in a wig riding a motorbike for all the legitimacy her results have.

Actual small lol

But how does she feel about Meghan Markle? that's what I want to know.

The evidence shows that MTB riders can come into the CX season and be competitive in races from the off, i.e. look at Nash, Neff and Richards at the start of this season. They are also usually far more skilled bike handlers than a lot of their rivals.

But the fundamental point here is that she was caught twice with anabolic steroids in her system at the end of the season that she'd moved up to be competitive. If we apply Occam's razor to what we know, then the logical conclusion is that her sudden increase in performance was due to doping.

That Australian one trick pony doing his one trick for the year.

He's sort of like pro-cycling's version of Punxsutawney Phil. When Porte wins on Willunga, he's announcing the end of winter. I assume that's it at least, you'd hope Trek weren't paying him serious money for a couple of TDU stage wins a year.

I see a lot of Treks out here in Australia so I guess his January martyrdom might be achieving some financial gains if nothing else.

Perhaps this is Porte's year?