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- yeah - those huge cyclocross fields certainly are impressive.
- Neither is blind speculation that you so elegantly exhibit, lol
- Oh brother. The only dopants that existed in the Merckx era were mostly amphetamines. Merckx had a long career so chronic amphetamine usage can be ruled out- unlike Maertens who was text book case of abuse.
it's pretty sickening that you disparage the guy who probably had the greatest cycling career in history just because you don't like him.
- La comparaison n'a aucun sens. L'époque de Merckx n'a rien à voir avec celle d'aujourd'hui. A l'époque tout au plus 6 nations qui se disputaient chaque épreuve (Belgique, Espagne, Italie, France, Allemagne, Hollande), aucun coureur des pays du Bloc soviétique, d'Australie, d'Amérique du Nord ou du Sud... Bref le volume de la concurrence par rapport à celui d'aujourd'hui était très petit. Dans la situation actuelle et avec la qualité d'entrainement des tous les coureurs, en particulier du World Tour, il est certain que Merckx serait très loin des résultats qu'il a fait à l'époque.
- Eating in a very orderly manner is very much characteristic of an eating disorder, and of course the less someone eats the easier it is to count and control every mouthful. Pauline dies not hzve an eating disorder, as she had a whole team controlling her weight loss and immediately regained weight. But it is not her discipline, choice of healthy foods, or willingness to suffer that set her apart from those with eating disorders at all. It is that she could change her mindset as soon as the TDFF was over.
- Correct, this is what makes Tadej so amazing in modern cycling, he is a specialist in most disciplines of cycling.
- to be competitive for GC in any grand tour he would have had to dump at least 15lbs. and if he did THAT would he have been competitive in races like Roubaix? would he have been able to sprint? this is the problem of racing in an age of SPECIALISTS.
- Not so long ago the West was outraged at how Chinese (mostly) kids were getting pushed, trained and selected into elite level sports but as this (and American obsession over (young) age best statistics shows, we are all too happy to do the same to have our shot at success. Is it any wonder that so many early performers go through a miserable experience later in life.
PS from having had a very good look at youth athletics world bests for years, I can only confirm that hardly any early achievers nade it through to the very top and very few of the world’s best and biggest winners left a big mark in the youth record books.
- That's not what an expert on eating disorders said, in reference to cyclist's losing weight.
I think it was an interview with Rohan Dennis several years ago.
Eating in an orderly manner is not an eating disorder.
And a cyclist who just won the Tour doesn't have an eating problem as that manifests in heath issues, and you don't win the Tour with health issues.
I am glad she's not planning on keeping that weight long term, though, as there can be health issues from being too light too long.
(I don't even like her, for moral reasons.)
- As has been said, girls are extremely influenced and sensitive about weight and any glorification of weigh loss does a lot of damage. I don’t think many teen boys are that into trying to become skeletal because a few of the middle ranking cyclists are. As pointed out, male rider diets have gone in the opposite direction and all the winning riders look the healthier (and better) for it and seem to be performing better. Maybe Pauline will ride even better with the right 2-3kg back in place.
ScottG13-08-2025