The dutch are now the tallest nation on earth
I just read up on this, and the were one of the smallest in the 1880's...fascinating stuff. Apparently in Holland, the most fertile couples are tall men and tall women, but in the USA the most fertile are average sized men and less and averaged sized women...which again is fascinating, I had no idea folk were measuring heights and fertility
obviously less gravity in the Netherlands
All very much rumours and supposition and guesswork…
Interesting that the nearest to a rational explanation was different styles of chain lubes e.g. newer ceramic waxes etc.
Also, what would kinetic regen tech look like in a (non-obvious) rear wheel? Methinks some people have been playing too much Zwift... 🙄
*If* you had a motor fitted, it would make sense to be able to use it in reverse (thermodynamically speaking) to recharge the battery, then you could have a full battery at the bottom of each climb with a small battery.
could the noise be from a tiny bit of disc / pad touching?
Interesting that it's 4 teams. You can imagine a load of angry calls to dubious equipment supplier "you promised this would give my team an advantage, but you sold the tech to 3 others as well"
All very much rumours and supposition and guesswork…
And DT hubs. Had the same with people looking at my back wheel with giant pslr wheels. All sorts of experimental kit is used by teams.
Brake disc induction motor with a remote from the DS in the car is my bet. Just needs a battery and eddy currents. A battery you say? Hmmm how many bikes in the peloton are rocking batteries? Anyone NEED bigger batteries because they errrr change gear a lot. Wired for brake disk temp sensors? 😉
With wireless gear changes, what's stopping a signal being sent to a rival's gearset? Just about to hit a climb- you're somehow in the highest gear? About to sprint and you're spinning like mad in the granny ring?
With wireless gear changes, what’s stopping a signal being sent to a rival’s gearset? Just about to hit a climb- you’re somehow in the highest gear? About to sprint and you’re spinning like mad in the granny ring?
That got brought up and then rapidly debunked more or less the moment SRAM announced their first wireless system!
So.....
We have cyclocross riders winning:
Grand tour sprint stages
Grand tour mountain stages
Grand tour time trial stages
One day road classic races
And now Olympic mountain bike races
I need to do whatever they're all doing.... I wonder if they sell it in Boots 🤔
I need to do whatever they’re all doing
Train 5* more and 20* better?
I'd like to see Pogacar himself properly tested. Who's to say that he's not some sort of revolutionary, bio-engineered android? My theory is that Roglic was the initial prototype first tested in ski jumping then moved across to cycling. Pog is the mark 2 version, though still needs development in terms of charisma. It'll be interesting to see how he ages.
Funny how they x-ray the bikes at the end of stages, but not the riders. Anyone else find this suspicious. Or am I just being paranormal?
Train 5* more and 20* better?
Yep that's what the drugs allow you to do.
This is the legacy of drug cheating. Or indeed any kind of cheating.
There can never be a David vs Goliath dream story involving ****stan and a lesser nation at the cricket World Cup again without it coming under question.
There can never be a truly exceptional performance without questions being raised.
This is the toxic legacy of all previous cheating and it can never be undone.
This is the toxic legacy of all previous cheating and it can never be undone.
Apparently the Texan know it all has been casting some pretty toxic aspirations. But…
It is also arguable that the very public way in which disgraced former pro- cyclist Lance Armstrong brought disgrace onto the pro cycling ranks generally has also created an environment in which doping is very, very difficult - for cyclists.
Today cycling probably faces far bigger issues with regards to weight and health.
Especially in the "micro-dosing" era, one injection or one course of drugs isn't going to make bugger all difference, it allows the user to train a little bit harder and longer, and recover faster than the non doping athlete, but it is the cumulative effect of doing that over a longer period of time that really makes an impact.
However the important part of that is the PED users actually work harder, work longer and more frequently than those who don't use because the drugs allow them to go beyond the natural human limits.
Everyone involved in cycling knows this full well, and the pretense of naivety is completely transparent. So when athletes like Pogacar come out with the classic misdirection statements like "I don't take shortcuts" or "I don't take the easy option" and it goes completely unchallenged or explained by the wider cycling bubble and media, then it is quite clear that the omerta is still strong.
IMO while the drug agencies are probably doing what they can to catch the cheats, the cycling authorities are only playing lip service to catching the cheats, and the peloton only cares about being caught and couldn't give a flying **** about cheating.
It's in the Star so must be true ☺️
However.....
So if cheating or bending of the rules concerning TUE' is common in cycling, what about other sports where there is a lot more money sloshing about?
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/football/arsenal-footballers-banned-drugs-onana-24232146
https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/eleven-star-footballers-allowed-play-18788338
Strangely I can't find much info on TUE within top flight football, wonder why? 🙄
I think there can be no doubt that rich team sport are absolutely steamrollering the rules.
...and the peloton only cares about being caught and couldn’t give a flying **** about cheating.
All of them?
…and the peloton only cares about being caught and couldn’t give a flying **** about cheating.
All of them?
Sounds like this guy's got the inside track on things, eh?
3 for 3 so far this year, he's a man on a mission....
Having followed all of Dr ISM’s 3 billion videos and podcasts about Z2 to the letter, No!, I’m not remotely surprised 🤣🤣🤣
I fully expect to win every race I enter this summer now too 🤷🏻♂️ 🤣
If you were POG and for the sake of argument were doping either pharma or motor...then why the hell would you take the risk of doing it in some meaningless minor races in Iberia when the season hasn't even begun yet? All it would do is increase the risk of being caught and paint a big target on your back for the testers for when the real racing starts.
He's up against riders that flirt with GT aspirations in terrain that suits him down to the ground, the real test will come in the summer.
It's a bit like Pidders at the moment, he's placing top 10 in sprint stages, granted there's some absolute hair brain manoeuvres happening on his behalf, but it's not a GT sprint stage is it, they're just race training.
As they said on GCN+ yesterday, Pog is a bit like PlayStation cycling, kind of has a play with it when he wants. Yesterday was just like a GT mountain stage, let break away go, start winding them in, sit on and break for the line on a steep (cobbled) section Mas got close, about as close as he would in a GT stage and he's really the only other rider of that standard there.
Yep
thanks to the texan **** there will always be suspicion whether warranted or not, I cannot understand why anyone wants to listen to his pods/commentary etc for that very reason.
But I can't think that Pog is dirty based on what we see in February racing, because everyone is on varied training plans, peaking for different races etc. Also the gaps in last yrs TdF were'nt that big and the year before was decided by essentially a day with grim weather that split the bunch
I'm just glad that Valverde isn't racing any more
I’m just glad that Valverde isn’t racing any more
I think that of a few people and then they invariably turn up a year or so later as a DS or coach or something.
Like, how the hell is Alexander Vinokourov still involved?!
I think the sport is much cleaner now and races are being more hard-fought (possibly because of the way the UCI rankings now work) but yeah, it's always annoying when unrepentant former dopers pop up in team manager roles.
Magnus Cort going well too 😱😱😱😱😱