Cadel to wear number 1 - another snub for Astana & Contador

Crankyfeet

Well... you know as well as I do that this forum is on it's last legs. There have been 3,000 new members who have registered with this forum since late March... and only one of them has been allowed to post... a Chinese spammer called dreamath... as you pointed out.

So it is because we chase people off, that this forum has a problem? That's funny coming from the Bro...

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fscyclist

Cadel will always look like a misplaced idiot regardless of what number is plastered on his jersey.

Bro Deal

I have tried to be a kinder, nicer Bro. It doesn't always work.

We should look up the whois data for this domain name. There should be a phone number.

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Eldron

Yeah cos we all know Barloworld has been involved in drug scandal after drug scandal

Finally - proof that Cadel doped! He beat Soler who was apparently on super charged dope so that proves conclusively that Cadel is on superdupercharged dope...

Gotta love Thunder logic.

I'm just really pissed off that the man wearing Number 1 in this year's tour is a doper - what a poor example.

thunder

no one likes Saffas mate.

Runitout

Mugabe's a bit of a fan. They've propped him up for years.

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Soler and Evans. No souplesse. Two of the most ungainly looking climbers in cycling, and I couldn't hold either of their wheels for more than thirty seconds... makes me sad.

I find the whole "he's a doper!" no - "he's a doper!" thing amusing - that Swiss study taken last year as I recall indicated 80% usage of HGH in the pro peloton - tells you two things:

1. if you look at a cyclist, he's probably a doper;
2. some pros don't dope at all. No, really.

Given fact 1, it's staggering to see that it's only when riders bolt from the blue that they get the "doper" moniker - look at Hombre in dpf, he'll accuse anyone he's never heard of of being doped to the gills. More likely to be the other way around - if any of the top twenty are in the "not doped" crowd, then they are absolute champions, and I salute them.

So yeah, let Evans wear number 1, but I don't think anyone's got any illusions about what it currently takes to wear the maillot jaune. (Might change later - let's hope Slipstream are for real). The chance was there in 1999 and no-one took it. Tant pis.

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Crankyfeet

You did food poison the entire NZ rugby team before the World Cup final in '96...

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thunder

if Barloworld had any balls they would have a decent Saffa team, and Ryan Cox (rip) would still be alive, but they handed corti the reins.


Augustyn
Cox
George
Kannemeyer
Perry
Mcleod
Froome
Impy
Hunter

Then they could round it out with the talented Moroccans and Algerians at the UCI le Monde centre.

As it is, they are underwriting Italians, when they could do the same job.

Eldron

Thank you for your insight global authority on national favouritism...

Fortunately you're a respresentetive sample of 1.

@Runitout - you take that back - South Africa's policy of quiet diplomacy is obviously working wonders in Zim - I mean Mugabe is the leader the majority voted for. At gun point.

Good call on Soler/Evans - they both look like they're suffering on warm up rides...

I read a report some years back asking pro athletes if they could take a drug that was undetectable and would make them invincible but would kill them in 5 years - would they take it? I can't remember the exact % but it was high 80's as I recall. I'm guessing that high 80's is about how many riders dope...

It's the reason I like the "safe to race" controls - now everyone can race at 53% hemacrit(?) regardless of natural levels. It's a nice leveller.

Eldron

Pfffff NZ only have themselves to blame - taking tainted 'roids the day before a big game - what were they thinking?


@thunder - I'd love to see a 100% saffa team at the tour. That's a pretty good line up you have - apart from Froome - he's not South African.

@runitout - agreed - Hunter is an oppourtunistic winner (like last year) - I don't think he has much of a chance in a straight fight though. That said - I'm going to put some money on him for the green jersey - he's fast, consistent and will make it to Paris.

thunder

Zimbo's are about as Saffa as you get, except they are not hated, unless they are Zanu-PF

Runitout

I thought he was Kenyan.

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thunder

is too, I described him as a "an albino Kenyan" in an article I wrote over for the main Dailypeloton site. The owner got a few email replies, some saying it was racist, and some asking did I realise what albinism actually is. They failed to get the satire.

thunder

but Froome has either just applied for UK citizenship/passport or racing licence. He wishes to ride for them.

Hopefuly Dan Martin will too. Switch back.