2012 Pro-cycling season thread

It's funny how over excited some people are getting about Tiernan-Locke. He's just won what are, essentially, a couple of early season training races yet I've seen some people suggesting he'd win Liege and is the best candidate GB have to defend the rainbow jersey?

Let's face it, if he wasn't British everyone would be speculating as to which wonder drug he was on, especially when the team he rides for is not part of the biological passport programme and, from what I understand, there was no drug testing at either the Tour of the Med or Haut Var.

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funny you say that-I saw exactly those comments on l'equipe website and although at first I was a bit surprised I thought about it and could see where they were coming from. Then I just thought 'moaning french shits' and forgot about it.

(secret francophile)