Doctor.House said:
You mean the para-nursing sneakers, not cleated shoes. Perhaps.
Cow blood IV doping achievements should be rightfully credited to the life scientists, not the riders. Without the protocols and cocktails, no athlete
can hold tempo at the back for very long.
These TDF rider have not the talent, skill nor ability to climb L'Alp DHeuz in 26 minutes w/o anti-anemia trauma care.
Point taken---but please give the credit where credit due. Quit projecting emotion onto billboards unless you enjoyed my Nascar analogy.
Nascar is more even now than it was many years ago. Richard Petty, Dale Earnhardt SR, Gordon??
Cycling is more even then it ever was before as well
You point is that everyone is so strong it comes to team tactics, not rider individuality.
On a final climb, how many teamates of the GC riders are realisticaly left?
1 or 2 tops, and usually coming back semi popped from a break.
The sport is the same as its always been, they race bikes around France for crying out loud.
Look at Vino's team, he had the whole team to support him up to the final climbs then Kloden, kashenkin to deal with everyone for him. But instead he crashes out at loses all the time required to have a chance in the end.
How many still have a shot, Evans, Valverde, Rasmussen, Contador, Leipheimer. Even Moreu who lost time, and Vino is looking stronger and stronger.
You cant say Evans has a lot of support can you, say compared to Vino. But he's doing pretty well huh?
Last year Landis pulled off one of the most epic breaks ever, controversially from a blood transfusion. His team wasnt exactly CSC or T-Mobile.
You say Nascar is boring, technilogicaly bent towards heavy finances. But dont the best drivers deserve the best teams?
Doping is probably a pandemic. I would like to know, how many people in this forum have actually experienced pro racing???
But can your really positively know how it is until you have seen it?
Cycling is a jumbled set of specialities unique to itself. You cannot say its dry because of doping. Its an aquired taste. Its fun to look at, visually appealing. It appeals to the French populace because of this. It thrives in European glamour. Millions watched it in the UK. And Billions like never before watch it worldwide. In the Most northern, center of America, thousands of miles away from the event, people sit down in a restaraunt and dont watch Barry Bonds break the home run record, they watch the Peleton roll through the foothills of the alps, at the pale exhasperated figure of Bradley Wiggins digging deep into his suitcase of courage to last one more mile with the TV Motos riding a full minute in front of 186 of the best professional cyclists in the world.
Solving doping as I said before, is a matter of catching NBA Players doing street drugs, and ordering them to pay the same price as say, Patrick Sinkewitz.
But its not $80,000--- No its like $$80,000,000