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- Well this says a lot about the TDF winner
- This question is not about a pay wall. It is about ads free browsing. And if you want to pay for that.
They are clear that they are never go behind a pay wall.
- I don't believe you are understanding the premise of my statements. You are entitled to your opinion though. Have a nice day.
- Visma was proud of winning all three GTs in a year, with three different riders - and their two best riders had to hold back to let Kuss win the Vuelta.
If riders and teams are as successful as Visma then and UAE now, their dominance will grow, which could well be a problem. But if they can do it, of course they will. It's the UCI who needs to improve the World Tour system.
- What???? Show the evidence another conspirancy theorist with nothing to back it up .So in your opinion Sexias and Remco must have been doping as well as they both finished top 5 and got tested. If you dislike the sport play or watch football lol.
- A lot of if's, but's and maybe's.
- it just strikes me that there’s so much conjecture and speculation in your method that the conclusions — unless i’m misunderstanding you — seem maybe a little sketchy.
you acknowledge that vO2 max is just one factor, but then just as quickly toss that aside to conclude that armstrong would finish an hour down to pogacar PURELY due to a foundational disparity in “giftedness” or “talent.” i think most of us would agree that mvdp appears to be a pretty gifted rider. mathieu van der poel’s vO2 max is about 83–85, but there certainly seem to be “other factors” that are doing some pretty heavy lifting. mvdp ALSO has an even lower maximum heart rate than armstrong did, 191 against armstrong’s 200, so there’s nothing magical about that piece of the dutchman’s physiology either. one could reasonably speculate then that van der poel’s secret sauce lies the slowness of his lactate production and the speed with which his body clears it. this may very well have been the case with armstrong as well.
you note that pog’s time on plateau de beille a couple years ago is six minutes faster than armstrong’s from twenty years ago, as if that time gap represented an absolute measure of rider physiology rather than twenty years of progress in training and technology. by that reasoning then there are club racers in 2026 posting times that make them “more gifted” than merckx and anquetil. is just EVERYBODY who can get on a bike today and beat a time posted by armstrong (or indurain, lemond, merckx…) MORE GIFTED than all those others by whatever their new margin of victory on the clock is? that means a boatload of guys out there on zwift who are much more “gifted” than bernard hinault ever dreamt of being. and since times are always getting faster that means that competitors (in every single sport) are becoming progressively more and more GIFTED rather than just being the product of the evolution of their sport and all its supporting changes in science, etc? i suspect you don’t actually mean to argue that. but if that’s not the case you’re making then i’m having a hard time understanding what is
- Wow, you finally have three likes, that took a while..
- 1000% he is a total narcissists. How much time have you spent with him?
- Do you think he was the only doper of this time period?
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