Ian Stannard edition
>During the 1998 Tour de Romandie, Gianetti abandoned during a stage and later became unconscious.[5] He was taken to Lausanne University Hospital where he remained on the intensive care for 10 days, as his life was in danger. Initially, doctors suspected an infection, but all tests came back negative. Two doctors then suspected that Gianetti had been transfused with a perfluorocarbon emulsion, to increase the oxygen-carrying capacity of his blood. This was reported to the authorities and an investigation was opened.>According to legal documents and witness testimony uncovered by Radio France, Gianetti blocked the public release of this investigation by filing for damages when he discovered the identities of the whistleblower doctors who reported him.[6] Gianetti filed for 900,000 Swiss francs from Dr Jean-Pierre Randin and 3 million Swiss francs from Dr. Gérald Grémion.[7] In the 2025 Radio France report, Grémion confirmed that the financial pressure forced him to negotiate with Gianetti's lawyer to reach an agreement.[8] “In exchange, I had to promise never to speak publicly about this person again,” Grémion told Radio France. “You could say that my silence was bought.”[9]>A journalistic investigation examined the history of Mauro Gianetti's Wikipedia page following public scrutiny of his career. The investigation reported that IP addresses associated with his previous team headquarters in Spain and his residence in Switzerland were used to modify the page. These modifications reportedly included the removal of sections related to doping controversies and the addition of specific personal biographical details, sometimes written in the first person. A spokesperson for UAE Team Emirates has stated that Gianetti did not modify the page himself.
>Phil dropping truth nukes>Danielson being a coping retard Actually a good video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGlbNApwlaE
The fuck? Why is there no real thread? It's Bastille Day tomorrow ffs
>>156717736QRD?
schizo cyc thread
>>156717973Reliance on rusbert>>156717993Basically danielson is shilling the idea that doping actually doesn't make you better(?) because you're anxious all the time, have to skip training and you can't be consistent with training because doping programs require more preparation than hard training blocks. To me it seems he's coping and downplaying doping because a) he doped and b) his son is up and coming, so it's easier to lie to yourself and pretend cycling is clean so his son won't suffer. He says his son puts out more power now than he did at the peak of his doping. No idea if that's true but whatever, he lacks credibility for various reasons. Clear agenda.Phil on the other hand was more realistic. Suggests the presence of Gianetti and similar characters are definitely not a good thing for the sport, questions whether or not they can be trusted despite extensive history around doping and how likely it is that they'll just stop organised doping all of a sudden. Suggests maybe modern doping is less of a team wide organised program, and more individuals and assisting riders on their own programs, letting them know if they're too obvious etc. That's what I've heard, that doping is far less centralised and it's very small groups or individuals, so in the case it's busted there's plausible deniability. They also went onto say the UCI a) doesn't hold as much power anymore over doping and b) will not expose doping and they basically said they'll shadowban riders and teams to protect the sport.It seems all cycling media wants to deny they're suspicious and are pretending everything is fine. I don't believe they actually think that. PooAE is the most blatant case in the history of the sport. The manner in which poogacar wins is absurd at best.
When will UAE let Almeida dope? I miss that lad. Send him to the Volta
>>156718365Super likable dude. Got a cool riding style too. Wonder how mcnuggets would fare on as a GC leader in a GT too. If poogacar and Jonas didn't exist I think this generation could have been really interesting racing. Hopefully Paul is able to match burrito otherwise the sport dies.
>>156718159>Basically danielson is shilling the idea that doping actually doesn't make you better(?) because you're anxious all the time, have to skip training and you can't be consistent with training because doping programs require more preparation than hard training blocksif he actually said this he is either fucking stupid or on the copium train
Can we please talk about tomorrows stage?
>>156718842He claimed he performed better when he wasn't doping because he's having to hide, he's bricking himself constantly and it takes time to deload. Also mentioned the toll on the body is too great to maintain a high level over the season. Phil was far more pragmatic and reasonable. I think these faggots with their clean tattoos have made antidoping their personality so will say anything and everything to make doping sound terrible. I think the fact he has an emotional investment in his son becoming pro is another factor. It's difficult to come to terms with the fact your son may be faced with the same decisions. Lie to yourself and suggest doping won't actually boost performance, because of other factors, and you feel safe.TLDR his entire point was that working hard and committing yourself to training, doing the small things etc will give more than doping because the negatives that surround doping. He's a weakmind as are all that testified against Lance so I'm not surprised he couldn't cope. It's a decent watch to be fair, both pretty mongy but thought provoking.
>>156718930Pogi wins with 2 minutes and destroys the TDF and cycling as a sport nuking it to the lame and gay agethere done deal
>>156718937what tricks my dopage sensors is that when Pogi does his insane performances, he is not even tiredall the others are gasping for air, sweating like crazy and 100% spend, Pogacar looks like he just did a sunday ride + a sprint to the local bakery and could EASILY do another 250km no problemno off days, no weaknes (anymore), can somehow overcome any and all physical problems he had in the past (heat, very high gradients, long climbs to high altitude) all of those problems gone over the winter of 2023-2024
>>156719104what is this anti tiredness drug? could do with of that myself
>>156719143be like Indurain i guess?if your pulse never goes above the critical threshold then you will never "blow up" and if you never blow up you never get really tired
>>156719104No off days makes it far too obvious. I cannot think of another rider who has never had bad days. Froome was consistent but he definitely had off days. They weren't usually severe but they were always there in every race. Not being tired at the finish line is also very blatant. Exactly what you would see in the 90's 00's. Now do this all season long. The amount of oxygen his fat body must be receiving is beyond me. Those long attacks kind of make sense with bigger riders like MVDP, Wout, Cancellara. But he's not that size and does the same. Pushing big big watts on a relatively small frame for long periods of time. Want to know what he's actually on just on a biology basis and whether they offer the same treatment to elite special forces.
>>156719493peculiar creature. the belly does not match the arms and legs. my mate is like that. too many pints
>>156717045Tour de dope is fucking boring. They should make it so if you won two years in a row, you cant participate any more.
Bam another onetick tock Cavreminder that the tdf is always great, even the shitty ones
>>156719925UCI need to stop being a bunch of losers wishing for a GOAT and do their job. Your heckin goat is not some slav faggot twink larping as eminem. With a team which is run by highly suspicious personnel. This is destroying the sport. Anyone with a brain can see what's going on. UCI once again destroying their credibility like the lazy bunch of money hungry bureaucrats they are.
this chinese race is fookin mental. literally every stage is at altitude. the lowest they go is 2200m
>>156720073yeah yeah you keep saying this. meanwhile in the real world cycling is way more popular than it was before Pog came along and he remains easily the most popular rider.
>>156720108For dunces on social media yes, whilst they sip their legume beverages watching le 60km attack xDD which completely destroys enjoyment. Long term fans are sick to death of it. There's a reason why there are so many basketball and NFL spastics making tiktoks licking his shitty anus clean. PooAE are gutting the sport. TNT yesmen are already starting to make noises. And my fucking bollocks is he the most popular rider amongst real fans. This le heckin' goat larp got boring 2 years ago. PooAE are the epitome of evil and it'll be a matter of days before piss, shit and predator drones descend on his face. French know what's up.
>>156719785>too many pintsIt's genetic dude. I have a belly like him and arms and legs like Vingo
>>156720087If we burn the planet a little more we should move the Tour to China.
>>156719143Just do a cocktail of adrenal cortex hormone and adhd medicine everyday.
>>156720301Diabetes does this because it creates a lot of visceral fat
>>156720819Also low estrogen
>>156720846>Increased Insulin Resistance: Lower estrogen levels make the body use blood sugar less efficiently, which increases fat storage and can raise diabetes risk.Didn't know this. That's interesting.
this is a highly cursed and uncomfy threadhope we get a new one by tomorrow
>>156720914This is how it will be everyday when Rusbert gets droned just outside of Mala Tokmachka.
>>156720914Daddy rusbert went out to get milk. You have a new daddy now. Father schizzy. Things are going to change around here.
>>156717736They make the mistake of assuming doping being a binary on/off thing, that would boost performance suddenly. They claim that there are no sudden improvements, when the top riders are improving year over year with sometimes insane improvements. Somehow they think that the majority of pros is clean and the only dopers are those who 'suddenly' hop on. There is a lot of naivety in this video considering they were in the peloton themselves at some point. The most laughable argument is that they are using the Dopeur as indication for clean cycling. Him always performing in the long term means he isn't doping somehow? When Lance dominated for 7 years and a main aspect of doping for cycling is recovery...
>>156721085Lance didn't give a shit about anything but the tdf. Would have been interesting to see him to go for monuments.
>>156721085>when the top riders are improving year over year with sometimes insane improvementsForgot about this. This was fucking retarded. In the context of the modern era, more so. We saw poogacar win the tour, then smash visa again. Visma responded with a frankenstein Jonas, PooAE doubled down and created a demon after being insulted. The increase in performance down to a change in coach, as if they had the garmin watch planning sessions beforehand. And as you say he gets better every year sometimes with huge jumps in performance. But hey maybe it's down to rounder wheels and a softer chamois.
>>156721118Lance's doping was caveman level compared to what top teams are doing today, both in legal and illegal areas. >>156721171We won't see another public doping scandal, once the secret sauce is finally leaked we'll get a relatively quiet goalpost move (like we saw with the CO ban) followed by a massive drop in performance (like we saw post EPO crisis). Pogacar will never be outright 'caught', and his performances will never be repeated, but not for the reason people think.
>>156721266>Pogacar will never be outright 'caught', and his performances will never be repeated, but not for the reason people thinkAnd this is why the sport is being gutted. Artificial goat. Every broadcast is tarnished by the mention of the biggest fraud in sport. Completely undermines professional cycling. Everyone will be compared to an alien, a completely inhuman career. Just like the legacy that argentina left with maradonna's hand of god. Complete farce. May as well become a WWE style event at this point considering the UCI area clearly in on it. Shadow ban a bunch of riders in the past 10 years but they don't have the bollocks to stand up to the most consequential case of doping the sport will ever see.
>>156717993no one can listen to phil gayman for 30 minutes
Cycling is not even in the top 10 most doped sports. Its really not that exciting to talk circles around for years on end.
>>156719493this guy probably has a higher ftp than me
>>156719493>spend several grand on aero gear >could lose 20kg without starving himself to increase cycling performance by something absurd like 100% instead
https://www.cyclingweekly.com/racing/the-most-promising-cyclists-need-to-go-to-numerous-different-teams-tour-de-france-director-christian-prudhomme-in-favour-of-a-salary-cap-to-increase-excitement>'The most promising cyclists need to go to numerous, different teams' - Tour de France director Christian Prudhomme in favour of a salary cap to increase excitement>"We’re clearly favourable [towards it], and it exists in French rugby. There are discussions in effect with the UCI, the riders, teams and us,">While UAE are by far and away the strongest team in the sport at the moment, Pogačar's performance last week against an in-form Vingegaard is more proof, if it were needed, that he is an outlier, and arguably the best cyclist the world sport has seen. Prudhomme's suggestion is not about clipping Pogačar's wings, but about creating interest, excitement and jeopardy in the racing.
>>156721733>lose less than 30 seconds on the main climb>be stuck alone, totally demoralised and burnt out after going into the red for the climb >lose the tour on the rest of the stage>everyone piles on looking at the 2:40 gap misinterpreting what happenedIf Visma hadn't fucked up and Fishboy didn't have such a hard-on for this weird gearing it would have been closer than most people were expecting
>>156721823Not as if Visma didn't try and get riders in the break. They tried putting Victor and Matteo up the road in anticipation of a poogacar attack. Except their juiced team closed them off and ensure they wouldn't get into the break, just like yesterday. poogacar is fatter and more powerful, also less to lose on descents because his gf has an STD from a BBC, so naturally he's going faster in the downhill and valley. I don't think Visma could do anything more. PooAE had total control. That is what Prudhomme is arguing against, and it's sensible. At least 4 of their riders could realistically lead their own GC team and finish top 10. This is a long time coming. Wage and operating costs need to be controlled.
>>156721923I don't disagree with you. I'm just saying the 2:40 makes it seem like Fishboy is riding with the rest of the peloton when he's closer to Pogacar 1v1 uphill now than he has been in a long time. Unfortunately, the tour is over regardless with 0 excitement to be had.
>>156722108poogacar put 2:10 into him on the hautacam last year. I don't doubt they'd attack earlier if it was a summit finish and burrito wasn't in the running. poogacar seemed to have a lot in the tank. I guess we'll see over the coming days how close he is. If Jonas loses by under 4 minutes it'll be a miracle.
>>156722177>>156722177>I guess we'll see over the coming days how close he isI don't think we will. UAE is just so much stronger that we're unlikely to ever get a real 1v1 this year.
>>156722249Trvke. Hadn't considered this. It's really going to be poogacar working for the burrito cartel paper boy trying to usurp 2nd place in retribution for making poogacar look stupid when he cracked against Jonas. Stupid cunt should've ridden with a brain instead. My albanians will sort them out, another 2 weeks and we'll be free.
Today another day of cyclismo.Contrary to shizobrit and Danes, I don't care about the inhuman performance Tadej nor Jonas. I'm just here for the battle between the humans, Remco rage and chutes. I will enjoy the stage as I always did.
https://www.procyclingstats.com/rider/manuel-eduardo-medina
>>156723003>suspended twiceLmfao typical cycling unc
>>156719493Thats a MASSIVE individual.
Where the FUCK is Marc Soler then?!
>>156723886In hiding after the early season scandal
>>156723947There is no hiding from the squeak
Should be a damn good stage tomorrow
i am not prepared for the amount of seething i will do tomorrowi think i might just stop watching cyc foreveri got better shit to do
fuggg...
Happy Bastille Day guys
