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Telegraph saying Sean Yates has quit.
Says he admitted doping in the past.SKY say he's "retired for personal reasons" and a drugs denial - pathetic.
http://www.teamsky.com/article/0,27290,17553_8202309,00.html
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The centenary Tour de France will have a brutal final phase with a twin climb of l'Alpe d'Huez on the final Thursday and a gruesome summit finish at Mont Semnoz, high above Annecy, on the closing Saturday. The combination of a viciously hard time-trial on the last Wednesday, followed by three Alpine stages back to back, make this a strong candidate for the hardest finish to any Tour de France.
Good to see they are doing their bit to encourage clean racing...
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Could anyone point me to a strong anti-doping statement ever made by a Spanish professional road cyclist, I have a bet on. Just unfuckingbelievable.
You mean like this one of Valverde's?
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/valverde-voices-support-for-lance-armstrong
Like you say unfuckingbelievable, The Spanish are on a different planet
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I love the way the Mail hid the details of who it was. So subtle that they might as well have printed "Sean Fucking Yates".
I wonder if this will damage the value of my chainring?Is it Yates? Or is that what The Mail want us to think? One of the sources was Daryyl Webster, a former team mate and contemporary of Shane Sutton. And DW has previously been very vocal and very specific in his allegations of Sutton's past but would have little evidence/knowledge of Yates beyond hearsay.
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No doubt I am an excessive axe grinder. My opinion is that Sky get a bit of a free ride in Britain because they are British. Other than Brailsford and Dowsett's dippy comments and the still unexamined Leinders connevtion,I agree they have nothing to do with this. I actually quite respected Wiggins well considered comment on this.
And the DS who extended his career at Motorola just to carry on riding with LA. Who was very much part of the inner circle. Who was a DS at Discovery and Astana. Mind you he did say on the radio today that he knew nothing about it, thank god for that...
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I never accepted my slot, I realised in the summer something was not right and decided to decline it, a decision that was clearly a wise one as in July I ended up in hospital with heart problems and what for a time appeared to be a suspected heart attack.
I have real mixed feelings about missing it, all the pictures I've seen, and just looking at the times it looks like I missed something truly epic.
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I'm in. Need to do some serious work over the next couple of months. Planning on running a marathon August bank holiday weekend, so need to seriously look at what I am doing training wise. There may have been an element of panic when I realised I was accepted.
@coedywedy - interested in a lift if you have room and don't mind a random sharing.
@Ramaye - the weather will be horrendous. It always is the years I do it!
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Firstly RIP Rev Michael.
A few things I would say. Firstly, if you think that you get an accurate representation of what occurs in an inquest from some idiot hack working on the local freeebie you are very much wrong.
Secondly, based on the facts given there is no way that the CPS would have got that scenario close to being a charge of death by careless driving, never mind one of dangerous driving. It's shocking and it's not right but that is the harsh reality. A driver not speeding (or commiting any motoring offence) and giving room to a cyclist is not going to get convicted.
Finally, people need to understand that the puropse of an inquest is to establish facts of how someone dies and is not there to aportion blame. The police investigate it as a fatal RTC, they look at charges and only then at the end of that process does the inquest happen. It would be very rare, if not unheard of for the coroner to refer a case back to the police because he would have full access to their files.
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Please can someone paste the list of major AL clients from the London Taxi Drivers forum? I would but I'm waiting for my account to be approved.
- If we work at an AL client companies then we should raise the issue internally
- If we know someone who works at an AL client then we should contact them
- And we may want to target the AL clients anyway (but politely/constructively!)
As regards raising the issue in our own companies then a good route is likely to be via keen cyclists among the senior management (i.e. those who will have enough influence to affect purchasing decisions).
Are any of the companies ones that are seen to actively promote cycling? An orchestrated and polite email campaign to one company saying that while they use Addison Lee then they will be boycotted could be worthwhile?
- If we work at an AL client companies then we should raise the issue internally
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Being able to do long distance riding at sub-threshold intensity (e.g. threshold being how hard can you ride non-stop for an hour) is not the same as efforts at 150-200% of threshold which you are doing when climbing.
If you never ever do any riding at 200% for 60-120 seconds except on these rides then they will hurt.
I think this is probably more likely than effortt induced asthma.
Price drop - £220.