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- What is the purpose of this article? Why is whatever Jose has to say relevant right now? Why is anyone continuing to write articles about Lance when this current generation of cyclists deserves much more time and respect? There are hundreds of articles, books, recorded testimonies that contradict everything he says about Lance’s demeanor within the team and the doping program within Postal. I actually feel sorry for Jose if he believes what he’s saying, though that depth of ignorance must be bliss.
- If everything were left to the rider why would there be a team of sport scientists required. Lotto simply dont have the resources to follow up and thats why they are allowing him to do his own thing. But a 19 year old will not have the expertise to optimize the growth curve and he will suffer for it. Its not a good decision.
- I'm surprised that Jose's nickname isn't Pinocchio, with a ridiculous story like that.
- Depends, if since the last rider to cancel, yes, if you noticed the other recent abandon, more becomes a valid term.
- Firstly, hope you recover promptly. No need to do any checking as it’s a hypothetical discussion. Another reason you can’t just add the if that suits your argument is that you then have to factor in everyone else’s ifs for theirs. What if Kwiat hadn’t crashed with Dumoulin on stage 3 when Visma were on the attack. What if Visma’s had changed strategy earlier with a more dangerous Tadej, how would Tadej have fared or ridden if he had led earlier? Primoz is an excellent time trialer, especially with such a climb, it wasn’t to be expected Tadej could knock off 2 minutes on him and the best back then, even he couldn’t have known he’d manage. Until then they’d been very well matched, Primoz still managed to extend his lead somewhat just before the TT. I guess he may have paid a price for it that day?
- Yup, pretty much the entire team has admitted to communal use. He must have said this to save face to his family
- I'm calling bullshit on this entire story and Jose. In a face-to-face conversation with a world class rider that I trained and raced with for decades, he relayed to me the story of Lance's doping through a teammate that was briefly on US Postal. To be on the team, to be able to contribute to Armstrong's cheating and fraud REQUIRED that teammates also dope. Jose's results don't come from just bread and water. Remember Armstrong never tested 'positive'.
- It's not a certainty but he would have been far ahead if not for that mechanical based on the outcome that we saw unfold. If I'm not mistaken he only lost a little time on one mountain stage after that issue but regained it, I can't remember which stages though. I'd have to look up the stage data.
Although I'm sitting here with a viral sinus infection today, so I might go look it up since I'm not doing much else lol
- Really??? How do you know he wouldn’t have crashed and abandoned? You can’t use ifs to prove certainties. If one little thing had changed in history, there’d be no America or it’d be German or there’d never have been humans to cycle or we’d have continued with electric cars 130 years ago.
If Jonas hadn’t waited when Tadej crashed in 2022 he might also not have won. You can regret things didn’t go the way you wanted but you’ll never know how they would have gone if you change ANY detail. We have all escaped death or disaster by seconds or minutes or a complete turn in events at some point in life and would do well to remind ourselves of it when contemplating possible outcomes.
- Yes and also don't forget that Tadej is about o years younger the Jonas and was technically still developing. It's a funny thing to say but it's true. Remco is still developing to as he's currently 25 until the 25th of January. Age does play a part, either good or bad.