Tour de France 2021

easier to just turn a blind eye to sticky bottles and all that.

I wonder what merckx's aim with a laser pen is like

what a machine morkov is. Deserves a stage in or two himself.

Really does but with two sprint stages left I don't think it's going to happen, unless Cav doesn't make it over the mountains. If he's there, Cav will go for the record on Stage 19, and if he gets it then Paris would be the cherry on top. DQS from a sponsorship perspective would much rather have Cav win in Paris than Morkov.

The way Cav celebrated this win made me think he doesn’t expect to get through the mountain stage. He said to one of his train: “We’ve done it! We made history!”

For me, the job is not done until Merckx has been sunk and we have RCav knighted as the undisputed greatest cycling thank you Jesus that ever graced the sport.

…and Amey’s in Rwanda.

coffeebeans ebiking empresario?

I appreciate this is a can of worms because this is supposedly a different era but it can only be a good thing for the tour if the rider who has won the most stages has not been caught doping four or five times like Merckx was.

Whatever you opinions on the past and present, Cav is the rider to have won the most stages while never failing a drugs test. That's pretty special.

Merckx' positives only came from eating all the riders that he beat, because their meat was contaminated by doping.

I expect he could have proved that the meat he was eating was contaminated by clenbuterol.

Hmm, I think moral relativism is a dangerous rabbit hole to go down.

Anyway, Merckx tested positive three times in his career: for amphetamine in the 1969 Giro (which he still contests), for a stimulant in 1973, from a cough medicine, and for a stimulant in 1977, not four or five.

For acting classes with Don Cheadle.

LMNH have quite a nice setup for watching the race. I'm planning to go there again on Thursday next week for the Tourmalet stage - feel free to join me: https://www.lfgss.com/events/6214/

Hmm, I think moral relativism is a dangerous rabbit hole to go down.

For sure but it's a simple fact. I wasn't saying it from a point of moral relativism.

Look at this as a non cyclist. Look at the first hundred or so tweets under an article about a cycling achievement. Those inside the sport understand how nuanced and complicated the history of doping is. Those outside do not. It can only be a good thing for a record holder to have not failed a test given how badly tarnished the sport is.

Anyway, Merckx tested positive three times

I stand corrected. I just counted them myself and indeed there were three failed doping controls. Lots of web sites erroneously say 4 though, which is where I got my info from.

Due to an administrative error I am off camping for 8 days in the South Downs national park from tomorrow, meaning I’ll miss all the Tour highlights and possibly the kickball final too on the big telly, and will have to do with squinting at the iPhone instead. Not good planning.

There are nice pubs in the South Downs.
I expect that is where all the people that are missing from the camp site will be.

Watch on the right arm, I like him a bit less

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Pray he’s a lefty.

Sounds like good planning to me

Get on the plane, heretic

Merckx has had 40-odd years to think of the best way to be gracious about this, and decided he wants none of that. Impressive commitment to being an arse.

What if the ghost of sir captain major Tom is the green laser pen? Will we see it escorted by spitfires on the champs?

Already causing a nuisance in my spitfire, thanks.

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Another can of worms perhaps, but would that also be valid for Pog if he wins this and future Tours? Just asking, as it seems so much suspicion has been thrown around, especially at 'he never tested positive' type of counter-arguments?