Same feelings, sport as a whole has felt pretty empty to me since reading the full details of the USADA report on Armstrong and the whole Fuentes fiasco. Football has virtually no drugs testing, some players may have their urine tested maybe 2-3 times in their whole career. Tennis is a total joke.
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Tour de France 2013 |OT| Celebrating 100 Years
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Same feelings, sport as a whole has felt pretty empty to me since reading the full details of the USADA report on Armstrong and the whole Fuentes fiasco. Football has virtually no drugs testing, some players may have their urine tested maybe 2-3 times in their whole career. Tennis is a total joke.
They might, but there's no real hard evidence for it, not even rumours from credible people
It's fun to do internet searches for peds (epo/gw1516/aicar etc) and read forum posts from amateurs who tries it. Still nowhere near as many as those who use PEDs to bulk. People love shortcuts
If the riders aren't going to put an effort into riding outside of the intermediate sprint and the finish, I don't feel the need to watch anything beyond those two things. Flat stages are dull as hell.
True enough.
That's why Mark doesn't normally do post race interviews after a loss.
Flat stages can be interesting, but it normally takes a strong wind or a crash to make that happen :|
To be fair, this is only the first time he caused an accident. He is normally not a dangerous rider and it wasn't on purpose. That is why he didn't get a penalty either.
Lol http://velonews.competitor.com/2010...ned-for-finale-crash-at-tour-de-suisse_121246 he has also been declassified at least two times in tdf, both when sprinting against hushovd.
cheechwizard
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It looks like Cavendish has made some enemies in the crowd from yesterdays sprint.
Joking aside, I don't think this is anyway to act when spectating!
http://road.cc/content/news/87804-s...endish-urine-during-tour-de-france-time-trial
Joking aside, I don't think this is anyway to act when spectating!
http://road.cc/content/news/87804-s...endish-urine-during-tour-de-france-time-trial
Nice day for Omega Pharma. A win for Martin, fifth place for Kwiatkowski and seventh for Chavanel. I hope Kwiatkowski can keep the white jersey till the end.
Okay, it wasn't good to listen to the commentators on that case. Anyway, still clear Veeleers wasn't supposed to be there at all. If you assist a sprinter, you go to the side where there is nobody when you're done.Are we talking about the same Cavendish?
That urine was probably positive lol
Not when you have someone like Oleg Tinkov (TST sponsor).
Starts of quite "innocent":
Finally someone mentioned his hilarious tweets to which he replied:
:lol
bobnowhere
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These flat transition stages are a bit like basketball, tune in with 5mins to go.
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Was not nice for whoever was at the bottom of that group of people.
Haha that is fantastic.
Haha that is fantastic.
Boasson hagen with two fractures in his right shoulder
So Omega Pharma Quick Step and Belkin are killing Valverde. Quick Step formed an echelon to 'punish' Kittel (whose team didn't lead the pack despite being the big winner) and Valverde lost time due to a flat tire. At the moment Valverde, Rui Costa, Rolland and Kittel are 1m40 behind Froome and the favorites.
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Valverde's group have all but sat up, 2'37" and only getting bigger.
They have lost Froome! Contador and Molema are dumping Froome! Hardly 10-20 people including Belkin, Saxo Bank and Omega Pharma in the front with Sagan.
Come on, twenty-thirthy years ago they wouldn't have doubted for a second. When Merckx crashed Ocana, he didn't wait a second. In the end Zoetemelk would take out Ocana anyway, but in those times they didn't wait for a second.
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Valverde's going to lose 6 mins+ at this rate. Froome v Contador in the Alps now.
Edit: Sky is finally starting to organise, not sure why Froome is so far back in the group.
Edit: Sky is finally starting to organise, not sure why Froome is so far back in the group.
Evans and Van Garderen would still like to get a good position in the end. Quick Step, Belkin and Cannondale guys that got left behind are now also sabotaging so that is good. Contador is showing fighting spirit. Exciting!
Yeah, luckily they left Quintana.
Why is Katusha helping by the way?+
It would be pointless if he didn't, his team is the 'cause' of all this.
Yeah, but why on earth they thought it a good idea to send the #9 in the GC back to help their leader on a flat stage where wind had put everything into disarray is beyond me.
A glorious day for Omega Pharma. They take the victory and the entire team gets the combative trophy!
At first it seemed logical. At one point Valverde and Costa were only 12 seconds behind, but Valverde ruined it at that point by ditching his own team mates.
And honestly, it is becoming quite clear that Froome was so good last year because Wiggins was there to guide him. He blew his load on Saturday without keeping himself in check. Wiggins was a lot more calculated.
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