Giro 2011

only 110km tomorrow..

http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/giro-ditalia-his/stage-7

Lazy bastards.

these guys know how to make easy money :)

it is quite sad though

Wouldn't wear one, but I quite like this WW jersey: http://twitpic.com/4wnenp

Looks like the hot topic in the peloton / TV commentary today may well be this:

http://www.cyclismactu.net/news-dopage_les_coureurs_tries_par_indice_de_suspicion-15223.html

L'Equipe have published a leaked UCI document containing a 'suspicion index' (10 the highest, 0 the lowest) of all the riders who started the Tour de France last year. I think it's been compiled from the riders biological passport data although my French is very poor...

Some interesting numbers: Armstrong's a 4, Wiggins a 5, Geraint Thomas a 6, Cancellara is a 0, Cav's a 2.

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Cancellara 0/10? Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.....

The list seems really random.

If contador is a 5 then half the peloton is fecked*.

(*alledgedly)

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Cancellara 0/10? Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.....

Bear in mind Cancellara doesn't need to dope. He's got that motor built into his bike.

Hes flesh on cyborg. So the dogs cant detect him.

Cut him I say, cut him.

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Cancellara 0/10? Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.....

Where are the UCI headquarters? Where is Cancellara from?

[/cliveo mode]

my money is on dopey cuntador to win the stage today..

"France is the country least potentially doped" hahaha

I don't understand the "C*ntador" moniker, apart form the fact that it is easy, someone please explain.

To be fair, you probably need cyclists, to have potentially doped ones.

Wiggo gets the same score on the dope-o-metre as Contador!.. what?

Looks like the hot topic in the peloton / TV commentary today may well be this:

http://www.cyclismactu.net/news-dopage_les_coureurs_tries_par_indice_de_suspicion-15223.html

L'Equipe have published a leaked UCI document containing a 'suspicion index' (10 the highest, 0 the lowest) of all the riders who started the Tour de France last year. I think it's been compiled from the riders biological passport data although my French is very poor...

Some interesting numbers: Armstrong's a 4, Wiggins a 5, Geraint Thomas a 6, Cancellara is a 0, Cav's a 2.

Google translation for the lazy among us:

Nobody would have imagined that the UCI is so much concerned by the anti-doping, she would create a list under each degree of suspicion, all the riders at the start of the last Tour de France . It is nonetheless what happened. The body headed by Pat McQuaid had established this list that the team performed daily in order to guide appropriate officials responsible for anti-doping controls. Before knowing the indices of each of the 198 riders at the start, however, it is necessary to make some clarification on that list and what degree of suspicion. The latter was established by Pierre-Edouard Sottas, a former researcher at the laboratory in Lausanne in 2010 (now the AMA), following the study and analysis of the biological passport for each rider, and based on data obtained by control achieved by 1 July, the eve of the Tour.

The different degrees of suspicion range from 0 to 10. 10 being the maximum threshold of suspicion. This list, also provided to independent agents of the AMA , was therefore intended to guide auditors and to target potentially doped riders. Each rider, in addition to its index had "right" to a few comments in case of inconsistent data (with respect to hemoglobin and hematocrit in particular) to the approach of a big race like the Tour thus . However, one should not immediately throw stones at those whose index is high. The team makes it clear that some diseases may explain abnormal values ​​and is also reported that none of the runners high index has been tested positive on the last tour .

The biological passport was in any case allowed the UCI to create a new method to fight against doping. Remains whether it is effective enough and if the riders have not already taken the measure of the biological passport and could already afford to "play" with. With the publication of this list, ultra-confidential, doping returns briskly in the news cyclist. But see the positive side. An overwhelming majority of riders have a low index of suspicion.

finishing climb today to Santuario di Montevergine

http://www.gazzetta.it/Speciali/Giroditalia/2011/immagini/zoom/ukm_07.jpg

I don't understand the "C*ntador" moniker, apart form the fact that it is easy, someone please explain.

Nobody likes a winnercheater.

A windcheater? [/not heard that term for a while]

is that like a fancy cagoule?

Nobody likes a winnercheater.

Whether innocent or not to single him out for the four letter word treatment seems unfair and lazy, though appearing immature and naive at times he is far from the arrogant, bullish, self-important, manipulative sportsmen that I would call names...plus he's supremely talented.

Immature, us? Puhlease..

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