Chris Froome returns adverse analytical finding for Salbutamol

[Eldron]

I see Cyclingnews even managed to work the word salbutamol into Sky's new Jersey design for the TdF ????

 

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/team-sky-and-chris-froome-launch-new-tour-de-france-kit/

[andydude]

https://m.independent.ie/sport/other-sports/cycling/ewan-mackenna-so-how-is-it-then-that-you-explain-a-freak-like-chris-froome-36968940.html

 

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[Thor Buttox]

https://m.independent.ie/sport/other-sports/cycling/ewan-mackenna-so-how-is-it-then-that-you-explain-a-freak-like-chris-froome-36968940.html

 

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It's a really well-written article but what I don't get about the motor issue is for the same reason cretins who believe we never went to the moon don't understand human nature.

 

If the US never got there, the first people who would have complained were the Russians. Besides that every other piece of physical evidence has been refuted, the Russians would have gone ballistic.

 

So why have no other teams insisted on wheel weighing, or bike testing? Either the Omerta is still strong with this bunch, and they are all using them, or none are. The stakes are too high for every other team to bitch and moan if there is clearly something amiss with one rider.

 

Just like Lance everyone was going after him when the were 99% guilty as well. But in this case the evidence would be far easier to prove just by lifting a wheel.

 

(Of course, if the UCI are complicit again, it's Lance 2.0)

[andydude]

It's a really well-written article but what I don't get about the motor issue is for the same reason cretins who believe we never went to the moon don't understand human nature.

 

If the US never got there, the first people who would have complained were the Russians. Besides that every other piece of physical evidence has been refuted, the Russians would have gone ballistic.

 

So why have no other teams insisted on wheel weighing, or bike testing? Either the Omerta is still strong with this bunch, and they are all using them, or none are. The stakes are too high for every other team to bitch and moan if there is clearly something amiss with one rider.

 

Just like Lance everyone was going after him when the were 99% guilty as well. But in this case the evidence would be far easier to prove just by lifting a wheel.

 

(Of course, if the UCI are complicit again, it's Lance 2.0)

Yeah it's strange. I think your point about Omerta is still true.

 

How many pros do you actually see asking questions? There was Bennet recently with an unscripted post stage interview, but his team quickly downplayed his comments.

 

For the life of my I can't belief motors are being used, but I have also learned that in cycling anything is possible.

 

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[Gen]

Ag cycling isn't the worst sport out there (cheating)

 

The Peru footballer returned a + for cocaine (in competition)..get this.. they have postponed his ban till after the world cup.. because he shouldn't have to miss his first world cup????????????

 

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[Bonus]

Ag cycling isn't the worst sport out there (cheating)

 

The Peru footballer returned a + for cocaine (in competition)..get this.. they have postponed his ban till after the world cup.. because he shouldn't have to miss his first world cup

 

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What a joke.

[Thor Buttox]

Ag cycling isn't the worst sport out there (cheating)

 

The Peru footballer returned a + for cocaine (in competition)..get this.. they have postponed his ban till after the world cup.. because he shouldn't have to miss his first world cup????????????

 

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Come on Gen, it was a metabolite of cocaine... No harm, no foul. Richard Gasquet kissed a girl and liked it (the coke), this oke gets a reprieve but Paolini got bust, didn't Tom B, too? And a whole shed load of others...

 

Perhaps cycling is at the forefront of coke detection?

[HDW]

Does cocaine give you an advantage in athletic performance?

[NotSoBigBen]

Oh well ....

 

http://road.cc/content/news/242872-uci-president-david-lappartient-says-decision-chris-froome-case-now-unlikely

 

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[Eldron]

Oh well ....

 

http://road.cc/content/news/242872-uci-president-david-lappartient-says-decision-chris-froome-case-now-unlikely

 

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Daaamn. 1500 pages is hard-core. That must have cost a pretry penny!

[Patchelicious]

Does cocaine give you an advantage in athletic performance?

Maybe if you did a line somehow at 50kmh moments before a short climb or sprinted started you could get a moments advantage, but it’s not banned as a PED, it’s banned because it’s illegal.

[Yo-Yo]

How many pros do you actually see asking questions? There was Bennet recently with an unscripted post stage interview, but his team quickly downplayed his comments.

 

I have no idea how people have been writing this up as being a scathing criticism on Froome. Bennet is a straight talking, p*ss taking kiwi and that is nothing more that a tongue in cheek comment laced with irony and humour that has been seized on as the rallying cry for all twitter warriors as proof from within the peloton that Froome not only took a few puffs on his inhaler but his inhaler has some magic sauce in it that makes you work hard on your weaknesses, descend better, have your rivals mess-up their tactics, wait for a helper who was a *** descender and not a great engine and was hanging on, not realise that it was a the attack that it was at the time it was and generally blow their chance of the giro. 

 

If the same attention was paid to Bennetts comments the next day when he clarified what he said you can tell that he was genuinely annoyed how his comments had been attributed. Maybe he should have been a bit less jokey in the first comments with the 'done a landis' but it's incredible how blindly people fit comments to suit their narrative. 

 

But even GB's comment the next day are happily seized upon as evidence that he's been told to toe the line and wiped into line by the conspiracy. 

 

"If we can’t compare a cyclist to another cyclist, we can’t make a comparison to any cyclist in the last 20 years,” Bennett argued just before the stage start.

 

“I didn’t say that Froomey went out and railed a load of gear and came back and won the stage. I’m just saying he made a bigger comeback than Easter Sunday. There’s no innuendo. I’m not [implying] anything. But if we can’t make comparisons in cycling, if we can’t compare it to Pantani, we can’t compare it to Merckx then, because we don’t know what was going on there.

“It’s nothing to do with drugs or anything like that. But it’s a self-fulfilling prophecy. People on Twitter want it to mean what they want it to mean."

[Eldron]

I have no idea how people have been writing this up as being a scathing criticism on Froome. Bennet is a straight talking, p*ss taking kiwi and that is nothing more that a tongue in cheek comment laced with irony and humour that has been seized on as the rallying cry for all twitter warriors as proof from within the peloton that Froome not only took a few puffs on his inhaler but his inhaler has some magic sauce in it that makes you work hard on your weaknesses, descend better, have your rivals mess-up their tactics, wait for a helper who was a *** descender and not a great engine and was hanging on, not realise that it was a the attack that it was at the time it was and generally blow their chance of the giro. 

 

If the same attention was paid to Bennetts comments the next day when he clarified what he said you can tell that he was genuinely annoyed how his comments had been attributed. Maybe he should have been a bit less jokey in the first comments with the 'done a landis' but it's incredible how blindly people fit comments to suit their narrative. 

 

But even GB's comment the next day are happily seized upon as evidence that he's been told to toe the line and wiped into line by the conspiracy. 

 

"If we can’t compare a cyclist to another cyclist, we can’t make a comparison to any cyclist in the last 20 years,” Bennett argued just before the stage start.

 

“I didn’t say that Froomey went out and railed a load of gear and came back and won the stage. I’m just saying he made a bigger comeback than Easter Sunday. There’s no innuendo. I’m not [implying] anything. But if we can’t make comparisons in cycling, if we can’t compare it to Pantani, we can’t compare it to Merckx then, because we don’t know what was going on there.

“It’s nothing to do with drugs or anything like that. But it’s a self-fulfilling prophecy. People on Twitter want it to mean what they want it to mean."

 

I love conspiracy theorsists - they'll happily believe what they think Bennet said but when he clarifies they don't believe what he actually said he said. 

 

Talk about creating your own truth...

[Thor Buttox]

Maybe if you did a line somehow at 50kmh moments before a short climb or sprinted started you could get a moments advantage, but it’s not banned as a PED, it’s banned because it’s illegal.

But imagine if you started acting like an advertising executive at a critical point in a race?

[Patchelicious]

But imagine if you started like an advertising executive at a critical point in a race?

And then the following day...?

 

Maybe that’s how Yates lost 20mins in day, had his little celebration a day early.

[Thor Buttox]

And then the following day...?

 

Maybe that’s how Yates lost 20mins in day, had his little celebration a day early.

Only heaven nose.