Pro-cycling thread

What were you watching? Discovery+ Eurosport had Matt Stephens (with Pippa Yorke)

Viviani came 7th in the road race earlier, now he's riding the elimination race. Nutter.

He's only gone and won it!

BBC, iPlayer. Must have been the EBU feed.

Yay!

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Egan Bernal will return to racing at the Tour of Denmark from tomorrow.

https://www.ineosgrenadiers.com/article/egan-bernal-returns-to-racing-at-tour-of-denmark

Primoz Roglic will ride Vuelta a España.

Tommy Windmills retiring with immediate effect

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Sad news. Such a brilliant rider and thoroughly decent chap it seems.

Sad news.

Only for us. He's probably gonna feel great. :)

https://youtu.be/iDlsMPduHsM

Jake Stewart at the Vuelta, hope he gets chance to compete in the odd stage versus 100% domestique duties.

Ooosh Nairoman DQ'd from the Tour for Tramadol use!

...but no further ban so he can go to the Vuelta. Lucky he re-signed for Arkea-Samsic a few days ago eh?

First offence and no ADRV. Lucky boy.

https://www.uci.org/pressrelease/uci-statement-concerning-nairo-quintana-rojas/7DIAQXAGCJPfb3Axi6BW3W?s=08

I have no idea of what kind of dose of tramadol he (or any cyclist in fact) would take, but I can't get my head round it. I've had to take tramadol a couple of times for crippling sciatica and it was vile, felt nauseous and just generally super shit.

Used to be quite common to have in "finishing bottles". Consensus in the peloton was that it was causing crashes because of the tramadol; think that may have been why it was banned.

Yep. Was allegedly rife in the Tour Series and other crits too

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/aug/17/cycling-nairo-quintana-disqualified-tour-de-france-positive-tramadol-test

been on the tramadol mate?

I saw your post in email form and went looking for a news article about it.

I've never had tramadol. As if such a hard cunt needs painkillers.

orders another pint

orders another pint

Mine's a cider please guv

As inrng points out, it’s not a doping offence.

Seems a bit of a grey area that the wider public won’t understand, you get DQ’d from biggest race of year but it’s not doping.
Why was he taking it and why did he not think it would get picked up/ get a TUE for something similar?