Pro-cycling thread

Sorry! 6.5k in 3000 does sound tiny but 10 mins sounds like a lot. Sorry again. That's all I've got.

The letour.fr website is putting notes like 'Remembering Thor Hushovd' and 'Remembering Bradley Wiggins en route to Bourg-en-Bresse' in their feed and I keep thinking 'shit, is he dead?'

A headline apparently used to report on LA in 1999: https://twitter.com/festinagirl/status/1681619479178952704

Last night's episode of TCP discusses this ^ along with the cynicism that (can/does) circle round the yellow jersey.

Very deliberate. To the readers it's the same as saying V is definitely doping, but without being sued.

Messi had years of HGH injections for a diagnosed growth hormone disorder.
Maybe unrelated to doping, but there isn't much drug testing in football.

Lance went from being average to winning the Tour though. There's no suspicion around these guys. It was also the year after the Festina bust wasn't it when the organisers had said the Tour would definitely slow down as they'd got rid of the drugs... Tour de Renewal... but the average speed was the highest ever - pretty clear indication they'd not got rid of the EPO problem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_Tour_de_France#Aftermath

Spot who's reading Seven Deadly Sins right now. As if I could remember that far back.

such a man crush on campanaerts.

Is there a number of km in the break prize he's after?

Have we had this yet?

https://twitter.com/Domestique___/status/1681750024596733956?s=20

I sympathise with V because his peak, which is probably well earned, happens to coincide with Pog fading and other big teams lacking a GC contender.

are sports where there is doping less entertaining? isnt that what us fat fucks care about anyway? i couldnt care less as long as these skinny fuckers are turning themselves inside out for my entertainment.

Yeah, it was on the ITV coverage yesterday (bleeped though, the fucking prudish arse shits)

If your child wanted to be a bike racer... would you want them to have to take a bunch of drugs to allow them even a chance to compete?

It can be a downer when the skinny fucker has a heart attack soon after retirement. But maybe that's all in the past, when high tech doping was new. The doping doctors have a lot more experience now.

Steven Kruijswijk and Esteban Chaves both in the 2016 Giro.

Chaves didn’t crash, he just got dropped by Nibali.

UFC and boxing are very entertaining, particular favourite being Alistair Overeem as the largest of the steroid jacked fighters.

Commentators saying alpecin will be frustrated and panicking but they aren’t currently using up many riders so I don’t see the panic

This finish would have suited Cav. (If it goes to a bunch sprint obvs.)

Breakaway from another planet!

Tactical perfection. Fuck Philipsen.

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i would rather my child be leader of UKIP

no road cycling allowed, too many SUV cunts, i am not driving them to the track or cyclocross either.