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• #2802
I feel for Froome if he had a nasty chest infection, especially as someone with asthma. I had a really bad one this winter (fluid on the lungs and everything) which destroyed my winter/early spring riding, I'm still getting over the aftermath now. Being asthmatic really didn't help.
They still shouldn't have bent the rules for him though.
Note that the prednisolone (oral corticosteroid in tablet form) he was on during the Tour de Romandie is different to the Salbutamol inhaler he was using more recently. Apparently he doesn't need a TUE for that as he uses it regularly to treat his asthma (same here).
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• #2803
It's just the sort if thing that reminds people of the UCI's complicity with Armstrong, if it's true it doesn't make anyone look good.
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• #2804
Yet no one seemed to feel the same about a cleaned up Armstrong or a cleaned up Valverde.
I don't know what, if anything, Contador is up to now. It's not as if his form ever dropped off in an Andy Schleck way; he has won the Vuelta and been fourth in the Tour since his ban but this year he is certainly better again. It's not possible to blood dope in the way it was in the past but marginal gains through cheating must still be there. Thomas Voeckler springs to mind. Chris Froome and Wiggins and Talansky and Evans and Kelderman don't.
Given a choice between those kind of riders and people who have profited, in every way, in the past from cheating I know who I will be rooting for.Agreed. I suspect Contador is riding clean now, he doesn't seem untouchable in the way that he did, and his subsequent wins seem often to have been the result of tactical nous.
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• #2805
Regarding that, I just think any line you draw in the sand is pretty arbitrary, and is different from fan to fan for gazillions of different reasons. People warm to Contador for the same reasons they did Pantani, for how he swashbuckles his way up those mountains. Him and Froome are chalk and cheese, which adds extra spice to their battles.
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• #2806
It's just the sort if thing that reminds people of the UCI's complicity with Armstrong, if it's true it doesn't make anyone look good.
Well, quite. There are good reasons for using the steroids in this case, but if you don't follow the rules it looks well dodge. This is why the MPCC not allowing member teams to field riders on corticoids seems overkill to me, if you've been suffering with a chest infection or you've got asthma or whatever this could stop you competing when you're already at a disadvantage.
The thing is Froome is the first to get angry at anything that could suggest doping: e.g. not testing tour contenders training on Tennergrief.
But he must have known that they were fast tracking the prednisolone TUE, surely?
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• #2807
Just read this elsewhere:
emergency TUEs are always granted for exacerbations of asthma:
he is asthmatic, he had a respiratory infection
a respiratory infection in asthmatics can lead to an acute exacerbation of asthma
and acute exacerbations of asthma are no joke, they can send you straight to accident and emergency if badly treated or not treated at all
therefore, athletes with an acute exacerbation of asthma have the right to an emergency TUE, in fact they even have the right to a retroactive TUE if necessary. this is clearly stated in the WADA paperwork
http://www.wada-ama.org/Documents/Sc...hma-5.0-EN.pdf
so i'm surprised they are making such a fuss about it
... unless this is to do with his status as an asthmatic either not being registered or not having been renewed, which is another story altogether
It won't stop the trolls but this sounds legit
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• #2808
Everytime I try to watch scheduled stage of Criterium du Dauphine on Eurosport they're showing something else, unrelated. And none of the stages are available on demand.
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• #2809
Shit be all interesting and shit
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• #2810
dis^
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• #2811
<3 Bert
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• #2812
Froome looks better in green anyway
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• #2813
Wow, the race exploded
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• #2814
Agreed. I suspect Contador is riding clean now, he doesn't seem untouchable in the way that he did, and his subsequent wins seem often to have been the result of tactical nous.
Watching him just now I'm tempted to take that back
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• #2815
Froome dropping out of top 5?
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• #2816
Can Talansky hold on and snatch the GC?
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• #2817
WHAT a race
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• #2818
Get in! Great race.
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• #2819
Fuckin hell, didnt expect the time gap back to froome to be that huge
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• #2820
Froome looks smoked too
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• #2821
Froome dropping out of top 10
ftfy
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• #2822
Incredible effort by yates too
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• #2823
Tell you what, that's one of the most entertaining week long stage races I ever saw. Brilliant stealth attack by Garmin, great ride by Nieve to take the stage, shame Yates couldn't win one, but brilliant climbing throughout by him.
What happened to Froome though, the crash? Or did he burn himself out.
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• #2824
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• #2825
ftfy
Incredible effort by yates too
Officially better than Nibali.
Yeah but given the binary choice of Froome or Contador, I know who I will be rooting for.