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Barry
No doubt Lemond knows of which he speaks. I do believe though, and I feel modern science and sports science supports this, the years of covert "doping" were as harmful to the riders than beneficial, if not much more harmful. All of these riders were guinea pigs with all sorts of unknown medications, dosages, effects, if any, positive or negative. The "physicians " using these research drugs and off label medications were 100% experimenting on everyone and everything. They absolutely did not have any tried and true method to guarantee any result, let alone any safe and beneficial result. While there certainly was a lot of cheating, the effects of the cheating is nowhere near as simple as many of the athletes remember or imagine. There were a lot of placebo results, even if it didn't put you in a hospital. It's also a contributing factor to the current discussions around " you mean to claim a non doped rider today can go faster than a doped rider from 25 years ago?" when we never stop to think just how clapped those road side drugs practices were. There was so much experimenting with very questionable substances by people with very questionable credentials, they were as likely to kill someone as make them perform better. That didn't stop people like Armstrong and company from cheating, but it does explain some of his bafflement at how modern training, nutrition and equipment can erase his times. Poor old Lance was probably not getting the magic he was paying so much money for. He was a fool on multiple levels.03:19
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Barry
The best of luck to organizers and all participants, and the good people of India. May this endeavor succeed beyond expectations. Bravo and cheers17-01-2026 13:59
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I think that's the point he is making. I believe you guys are saying the same thing07-12-2025 04:57
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Barry
Once again, Horner seems to be the last person in the room to understand the conversation10-08-2025 14:48
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Barry
The 8 points Martinez was docked in the KOM battle seem ludicrously light in comparison to the 20 points for littering. Different points for sure, but the effect is supposed to be equally valid. In this case Martinez's violation was in direct competition for a major jersey, without the infraction he would never been in competition for the KOM jersey, so his punishment should be comparable to his crime, or else it's a race strategy to actively do this again. The littering thing is an error of unattention for a moment.26-07-2025 06:50
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Barry
In all fairness, can you imagine what would have happened has UAE and Pogacar decided to follow the attacks of Jorgenson? With the cross winds and echelons that formed, and the distance left to ride, Vingegard might easily have found himself 20 or more minutes down, without any teammates to help. It would have been effectively the end of his tour, no doubts. Pogacar did him a huge favor by waiting up. This was no minor incident, compared to Pogacar coming off his bike with 3 km to go, shipping his chain and hopping back on to chase. In that case, the GC group were not racing, the breakaway had won the stage, and the best Visma could have hoped for, was a measly handful of seconds, and only if Pogacar didn't catch back anyway, which he probably would have. Vingegard's position, caught up behind a crash with 130 km to go, isolated, on a windy day, as a slight rider, was potentially tour ending disastrous, especially with his own teammates willing to do all the attacking work that would have pulled Pogacar to the finish had he chosen to follow. Vingegard owes Pogacar a big thank you, whether he understands it or not23-07-2025 12:30
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I suppose if you're definition of a bully is a person such as Pogacar, you are leading a pretty charmed life.13-07-2025 15:14
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Boy, Armstrong's take didn't age well did it? It's interesting that the previous comments and discussions center around whether or not Armstrong is a good analyst despite his doping past. But looking at how wrong he turned out to be makes it obvious he was simply reacting to, and forming opinions based on the stages and actions he just saw. The same as the rest of us. He doesn't have any special "insight" into race tactics, or the future or anything that could be considered unique to his "expertise " other than to be confident he knows what he's talking about. In retrospec, Pogocar is probably afraid of noone on a bicycle, Jonas is most assuredly scratching his head and wondering what else he can do, and Pogocar went on to destroy everything in his path in every type of event possible. I'll let Armstrong and company in on the UAE tactics. It's called " who cares, tomorrow I will demolish this race with my legs". Armstrong et al or guilty of wayyy overthinking things because they wayyyy overestimate what they think they know. Turns out, his specialty of targeting one month of performance by clandestine systemic cheating, based on hidden financial transactions, avoiding "off season " surprises by basically not racing anything other than one specific block, living in an area where it was easier to avoid the rules, blowing the whistle on competitors (T Hamilton) and bullying others into not blowing the whistle on him, and you soon realize his skills were definitely in tactics and strategies, but not "cycling " strategies per say. Lance's opinions are not questionable because he is a drugs cheat but because he doesn't seem that bright. Think about it.13-10-2024 20:58