bobke said:Its quite easy to know when other riders around you are on the full program. Ask Chris Horner or read his recent interview in cyclingnews, or ask Michael Barry who wrote the article in velonews about "it seems that the Spanish riders always fly up the road like motorcycles when they race in Spain."
If you are a junior world level track cyclist and compete since age 14 and have done a number of US championship and a number of PanAm and world cup races, you follow the names and the times people are putting down. If you show up and a group or number of riders are unexplainably suddenly a level or two above where they have been, and leaping over people thay have not beaten, and LOOK different than they have in other races...those would be a few clues.
And then in the points races where everyone is going full on and you look at the guy nest to you and he isnt breathing through his mouth, another subtle clue...
Of course juniors mature at different rates and some bloom early and some late, but there is no reason to think that junior arent on the full program, especially when a few didnt pass the 50% health check before the races even started. A few subtle clues like that.
I'm sorry but thats absolute BS! This is only my second year of riding. This time last year I was 54kg's and all I could do was climb handily. Now I am 71kg's and I consider myself a time triallist. My body would look unrecognisable to what it was last year. I also dont show much pain in my face when I am suffering like a dog! Kind of the opposite to a guy like Tom Voekler who looks like hes eaten a chilli whenever he is in the wind (imo he is just trying to win the french public's support...again...slightly off topic lol)
In your logic I am probably a doper lol. I think you will find there is a perfectly legal scientific reason for my growth! Go to a junior event and look at the size of the under 17 riders legs then compare them to the under 19's...I rest my case.
Unless you think everyone starts doping when they hit under 19's haha