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• #27
Sun 18th 7.30pm Sky Sports 2 is the first one and then there's 30min blocks dotted around after that. Not sure which are repeats and which are live/whatever so I'm just going to record 'em all.
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• #29
That's 1m USD too.. which is about the entire wealth of Australia. ;)
He gets a 4-car police escort for training rides too.. I'd fucking love one of those.
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• #30
He gets a 4-submarine police escort for training rides too.. I'd fucking love one of those.
fixed.
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• #31
I can't supply PEDs or a TdF win, but I could chop off one or both of your nuts if you want?
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• #32
That's 1m USD too.. which is about the entire wealth of Australia. ;)
Is that since Mr Rudd's Great Aussie Xmas Giveaway? AUS$1000 to everyone on benefits!?! Mental...
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• #33
cadel was going to do the old "one nut" routine, but the aussie surgeon was, like many of his countrymen, a blind, ignorant drunkard with poor personal hygiene and managed to lop off both of tubb's little acorns.
the dog kicking incident just happened at the wrong time of the month
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• #34
Mmmm.. free money and dog kicking.
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• #35
Enough to make anyone homesick...
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• #36
It's getting me.. right... here! taps chest, wipes tear
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• #37
he had one nut, was allowed by drug agencies to top up his testorone levels. also recieved EPO during his recovery from cancer drugs.
Isn't EPO a cancer drug originally? Or maybe I'm confusing this with, as you say, it being used to counteract the effect of cancer drugs. Either way, he probably received it for sound therapeutic reasons. Has he ever flatly denied that he took EPO as such or does he always change the question in the answer to 'I haven't doped'?
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• #38
Famous comebacks of sporting legends no. 1:
Michael Jordan of the Washington Wizards. He wasn't bad, of course, still franchise player level, but he wasn't anywhere near as good as he used to be before.
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• #39
EPO is used as a valid treatment in cancer so even if he was smashing the EPO in while crippled by chemotherapy, fair play to him.
It a good training routine - get cancer, lose weight, including 'unnecessary' upper body strength, smash EPO in to conteract anaemia caused by the poison being pumped into you, build up cycling specific muscles, win lots of TdF, divorce wife, replace smashing EPO to smashing sheryl crow, kate hudson, etc.
there, i think ive pretty much summed up Lance since 1999...
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• #40
Apart from the weight loss. Which never happened. LA was the same weight when he won the Tour in 1999 as he was when he won the Worlds in 1993.
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• #41
no he wasn't, there is a published journal article that shows lances physiology profile before and after cancer. basically had same aerobic capacity, but do to 3-5kg drop in weight (plus numerous drug interventions), his relative VO2 and power-weight ration rocketed.
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• #42
yeah but according to his book (i think) he lost some of the 'unnecessary' upper body strength that he had form triathalons? he wouldve been cachexic during the cancer/chemo - i wasnt saying he didnt put it back on, just that he put it back on in a diff way
pedantry over
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• #43
thanks dogs. so that a couple of minutes or something on every mountain??
edit: shouldve read the article - yes
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• #44
no he wasn't, there is a published journal article that shows lances physiology profile before and after cancer. basically had same aerobic capacity, but do to 3-5kg drop in weight (plus numerous drug interventions), his relative VO2 and power-weight ration rocketed.
That study has been heavily criticised by the scientific community;
http://www.sportsscientists.com/2008/09/coyle-and-armstrong-research-errors.html
http://www.sportsscientists.com/2008/09/coyle-armstrong-research-installment-2.html
Coyle also recorded Armstrong's weight;
Nov 1992: 78.9 kgs
Jan 1993: 76.5 kgs
Sep 1993: 75.1 kgs
Aug 1997: 79.5 kgs
Nov 1999: 79.7 kgsWhere's the 3-5 kgs drop in weight exactly?
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• #45
i don't recall those weights. my memory conincides with what is on the link at the bottom.
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• #46
Those weights are lifted from the study you linked to. Page 3 if you want to save some time.
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• #47
chris gore, met him a couple times during my phd, one weird guy.
at the bottom there is a graph of weight on the main link, not the paper.
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• #48
It's on Sky Sports Xtra NOW
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• #49
Only time will tell. Love or hate him, either way he raises the profile of his charity - which is great. HIs book 'Its not about the bike' was one of the best books I've read. (shameless attempt to reach target of 5 postings)
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• #50
Lance's Comeback Bike: http://www.velonews.tv/?articleID=2547
he had one nut, was allowed by drug agencies to top up his testorone levels. also recieved EPO during his recovery from cancer drugs.