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Yeah, we're going to the Ventoux and Alpe d'Huez stages. Thread is here:

https://www.lfgss.com/thread96367.html

Last instalment of Anna's polo yoga course tonight. But despair not, polo yogis! Anna's Saturday morning drop-in class at Timber Wharf , which is well attended by cyclists, continues...

http://www.annablumanyoga.com/#!classes/c1t1x

Real word, though arguably used in a grammatically incorrect manner.

Wilful pedantry. Nerged.

By the way, how's the foot?

How's your foot, Bill? Let's get pissed soon...
#priorities

Foot is nearly ready for polo. Might start swinging a mallet again over Easter.

(Bill will hate both because he hates music.)

Pale-face speaks with forked tongue. Nerged.

Disapproved.

^ Not a real word. Nerged.

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Just reading "Lanced", a collection of Sunday Times articles going back to 1999.

Regarding Banesto, there was something that I missed at that time from the Festina trial. Thomas Davy, who rode on Banesto during the mid-90s, testified in court:

"At Banesto there was systematic doping, under medical supervision."

"Did everyone in the team use drugs?", asked the judge, curios about Indurain's stance.

"I don't know, I didn't go around all the rooms, but I think so", said Davy.

Testimony under oath.

I wonder how many times they've been tested though?

All 3, probably been tested less than 10 times between them.

The "steroid defence" does raise issues about other sportsmen and their fragile mental states.

Gascoine?
Beckham?
Rooney?

Sub-standard troll / conspiracy thread

Deja vu. February. Knocked out of FAC, knocked out of CL, scrapping for 3rd/4th.

Innocent until proven guilty and all that, but it beggars my belief that anyone can think someone who rode for teams run by Ferretti, Riis and Bruyneel and was coached by Luigi Cecchini is clean.

Nailed it again, Andy. Once again, the problem that the sceptical cycling fan faces is that because of the unwillingness of former top pros to finger DSs, doctors etc, our only option appears to be find them all guilty by association.

the 50% was bollocks, 50% isnt normal even in athletes! it was the UCI allowing riders to raise their haematocrit to 50% when most riders were low to mid 40"s!, so they allowed EPO..

Actually, one of the most notorious user of EPO was Riis, who was apparently known in the peleton as Mr 60%.

I think Jonathan Vaughters said he was around 50 ish before he started doping so he was only able to 'bump' a tiny bit when his numbers dropped low enough.

If you were naturally low you could pile on the EPO as long as you stayed below 50% and get a bigger % boost. This is the source of the old 'level playing field' lie; different starting point but the same upper limit.

In 'The Secret Olympian', the writer gives the example of one of his team-mates (reading between the lines, I suspect the writer was part of the 2008 rowing team) who had natural HCT of 50%.

According to the sport scientists, it's uncommon to have natural HCT at 50%, but not physiologically impossible. However, it is physiologically impossible for your HCT level to stay the same, or even increase, during a 3 week GT.

FWIW, the Secret Olympian is a very good read, featuring interviews with a wide range of Olympians. Not too much about doping in there, apart from the author's opinion that his sport was pretty clean, and some discussion of other sports (not just cycling) which had doping problems.

Booked hotels last night for the stage finishes in Saint Malo and Mont-Saint-Michel. Planning to cycle down to Portsmouth to get the overnight ferry. Not the most exciting stages, sure, but couldn't justify spending loads on getting down to the Alps. Another year perhaps.

Anyone else planning to head over? For those stages or any others?

Polo crew expedition to Ventoux and onto Alpe d'Huez.

If anyone's interested, Creative Couriers are looking for cargo bike riders.

020 7612 4040.

Hiring.

He had one positive for testosterone I believe, in the early 90's, which is common knowledge. He talks about 'health additives' and other coded language quite openly in a few interviews in which he frames it as a health thing in restoring natural levels but he doesn't openly say he knowingly doped.

The 'rebalancing' that he talked about was unquestionably hormones. I doubt that he was on the Poe, as he was nearing the end of his career, and I doubt that he would have been willing to risk his health. However, only he knows the answer.

Wenger on doping in football

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/arsenal-arsene-wenger-slams-doping-1594892

Shane Sutton and Tim Kerrison are the two big guns behind Wiggo's TdF win. There may be others.

With respect, Shane Sutton was riding and coaching in the UK when you were still trying figure how to put on long trousers. An Aussie, for sure, but not really part of Cycling Australia.

The real reason is that Mike likes single-sided bikes as they keep the weight down. The ease of puncture repair is an incidental benefit. The bike weighs 20 kg, which is not bad at all for a cargo bike.

I am in the middle of making a list of most improved trollers on this thread:

1. Mikec
   
2. Corney
   

And he bought a house there because he has always aspired to be an Arsenal player.

Yeah, especially after he got serenaded about his wife's sexual preferences by the Clock End.

Beckham (David this time) is once again training with Arsenal, Wenger say's it is only for fitness but lets speculate about the poseur turning out for Pisti's local team.

He's trained with the Arsenal before, more likely to find him turning up in Pisti's local than turning out for a game.

Ha! He's only at London Colney 'cos it's within gelling distance of his house.

20'' 'righty' fork with a drum brake? sweet, never seen one before.

It's an 8 Freight, designed by Mike Burrows, first produced some years ago now.

If anyone wants the box off this bike, which is still in pretty good condition, please get in touch.

Not ours, a happy mutt in a yoga shala that Anna snapped. Ah.