"I would ask Pogacar to make public all his parameters, his data, what he does" - TotalEnergies boss calls for action from Tadej Pogacar to improve cycling's credibility

Pogi is an outlier. You cannot prove an outlier using the statistical data of average pros. If he releases the data, it will only cause even more suspicion. In 2020 TDF he was dropped by Roglic in the mountains. So how does he do the TT where in the flats he nearly beat Tom Dumoulin and beat everybody else on the climb by a ton. No matter what Pogi is too much of an outlier which can be proven by data

Releasing data doesnt solve the issue of credibilty. Because what ended to be is people making intepretation of the data which leads to innuendo.

If he really want to improve his team why don't he just ask UAE of Visma to show them what do they do to their team?

I feel sorry for anyone who was born after the doping era carrying the sins of the past. Their hard work and achievement always viewed as suspicious. I'm glad I'm not a pro cyclist so I don't need to keep proofing my innocent everytime I'm doing something remarkable.

In every sport, records are broken and more-performing athletes emerge every year. And no one questions them. It's sad that certain people INSIDE the cycling are the first to create and increase suspicions about the sport they claim to love . And they do it without any prove, driven by frustration and envy, because they're always the losers to throw shit at their sport. It's never Vingegaard or Van der Poel; it's always the losers who act this way. Shameful. (sorry for my bad english)

It's kinda crazy that people who make a living in professional sport don't understand how competition works. You have the sport. You have pharmaceuticals which may improve performance. You test for as many as you can. If you pass the tests, you keep your result.

It's only in cycling that a substantial minority think that all results should be provisional for 15 years. In nearly every other sport, people watch and enjoy what they see, or if they don't like what goes into producing what they see, they don't watch.

Sounds like a witch hunt! " And then we should keep the samples of his tests for the next 10 years, when scientific research will have made further progress," he concluded."
Throwing shit on the wall and see what sticks...

" I do not want to insinuate doubts, but.."

Oldest backhanded comment in the books. It's not Pog's fault that all the French riders are currently crap.

Why just Pogacar, when he highlights the superb results of others annd compares it to 5 years ago (when carb-based feeding was treated differently, for whatever that is worth). Imagine asking Vingegaard, who recovered incredibly quickly from his awful injury. His climbing times were better than ever before. Does that mean he’s doing something nefarious? I doubt it. But I am pretty sure he had some TUEs that aided his recovery. I am okay with that, like I’m okay with using the cars to come back after a mechanical. If transparency is asked for, it should be asked for more broadly. That gives away a competitive advantage so it’s never going to happen.

Whining from a team boss whose riders never win - nothing to see here

This guy is a loser. Innocent until proven guilty. I’m not naive but this is insulting to the rider.

Riders keep this information to themselves because other riders could create a strategy around a weak point, and he has weak points, all athletes do. I'd agree to it though if they offered forty million bucks.

If dope made Pogi into Pogi, it could just as easily turn another good rider into Pogi.

Some people are blessed with a Vo2 of 90+ and small frames.
If MVDP was 10kg lighter, he'd fly up mountains too.