mjr
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But nobody needs to do it?
Froome and Wiggins TUEs
- Thread starter Joffey
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Siclo
Veteran
Oh I dunno...it's all part of the entertainment and the reality very often turns out a damn sight weirder than the ravings. This is the sport that brought you such things as intravenous baby food abuse and experimentation with synthetic dogs blood.
The only thing that's usually crazier than how the rules were broken are some of the reasons they can come up with for the results.
There’s an ex pro who I occasionally meet while out on rides (somewhere between an acquaintance and Fight Club’s single-serving friend) who rode for some Belgian domestic teams in the late 90s, truly the Wild West of drug abuse. He’s got drug stories that would cause the internet to error out and all of which would end with me in the libel courts if I reproduced them.
I’m not entirely convinced by his crazier anecdotes, but he was accurately calling foul over Sky at a time when the sun was shining out of their marginal arses. If some of his other claims/theories/ravings turn out to be true then buckle up fanboys!
I’m not entirely convinced by his crazier anecdotes, but he was accurately calling foul over Sky at a time when the sun was shining out of their marginal arses. If some of his other claims/theories/ravings turn out to be true then buckle up fanboys!
Top viz tip - if you get a paywall page for the Washington post then just flip your browser to ‘private’ mode and it won’t pick up the cookie that limits your page views. Private mode is also a good first step in hiding your porn habit Damian.
Dave Davenport
Guru
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I think I've had that same conversation with the same person, I dismissed and put it down to sour grapes at the time but he's not sounding so daft now.
Pro Tour Punditry
Guru
Just after SirDave et al have got something together which sounds plausible...
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
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Marginal explains
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
Margsplaining
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
Pufflailing
Pro Tour Punditry
Guru
Just Bradders
hoopdriver
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I read an interview with Frederico Bahamontes (winner TdF 1959) and he said he was always quite leery of messing around with drugs and didn't use them. He was saying this as an old man in his 80s, looking back, with nothing really to win or lose either way; I believe him.
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mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
Lawyer thinks other lawyers using other tactics aren't as good as him. It's a shock, isn't it?
hoopdriver
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Exactly. He has some face to lose potentially, if Froome’s/Sky’s lawyers succeed where he failed. And they may well do.
