Le Tour de Pharmaceutical 2018

taipan wrote:

tricycle wrote:Froome cleared

The rules say he can compete so fark knows what this was all about.

Nasty memories at a guess.

he must have sprayed the inhaler repeatedly into his sample ...

he really should be required to reproduce the result by using an inhaler ...

What are the chances of him screwing up the dose if he'd been a longtime user?

Big Dog wrote:

taipan wrote:

Big Dog wrote:Interesting article:

LINK

What does Philippa York say?

this

I seem to recall him also getting nailed.

Sweet. The pineapple input on him at 5.10 yesterday is looking like an outstanding bet.

taipan wrote:

tricycle wrote:Froome cleared

The rules say he can compete so fark knows what this was all about.

Wheels on fire. Rollin down the road. Just notify his next of kin, Froomey's wheel shall explode.

Apols etc to Jools Driscoll, Brian Auger and the Trinity.

Bradman wrote:What are the chances of him screwing up the dose if he'd been a longtime user?

He's taken an oral dose, hoping that he could pretend he had only taken an upper limit inhaled dose.

In any case, nobody 'needs' 16 puffs of Ventolin in the time he would have needed to take it to even approach the level recorded ... and if he had actually 'needed' to take it, he certainly would not have been fit to compete, he should have been in hospital.

I'm calling it ... he's a liar and a cheat.

Nelsonian blind eyes only are now fixed on Le Tour. Zero credibility.

Agreed.

I won't bother watching the Tour this year if the cheating grub is competing.

The tour has always been a cheat. Get over it already

horace wrote:

taipan wrote:

tricycle wrote:Froome cleared

The rules say he can compete so fark knows what this was all about.

Wheels on fire. Rollin down the road. Just notify his next of kin, Froomey's wheel shall explode.

Apols etc to Jools Driscoll, Brian Auger and the Trinity.

This was actually written by 'The Band'. Driscoll's version was just a cover.

Big Dog wrote:

horace wrote:

taipan wrote:

tricycle wrote:Froome cleared

The rules say he can compete so fark knows what this was all about.

Wheels on fire. Rollin down the road. Just notify his next of kin, Froomey's wheel shall explode.

Apols etc to Jools Driscoll, Brian Auger and the Trinity.

This was actually written by 'The Band'. Driscoll's version was just a cover.

Aye. Think Dylan also involved.

Nonetheless Driscoll made it her own.

Wish she had kept making music. Her version of Light my Fire 🔥 was definitive.

taipan wrote:The tour has always been a cheat. Get over it already

Well I like watching it just to see if the obvious cheats (half the field I know) ride off a cliff. Preferably a picturesque cliff.

taipan wrote:

Big Dog wrote:

taipan wrote:

Big Dog wrote:Interesting article:

LINK

What does Philippa York say?

this

I seem to recall him also getting nailed.

Testosterone, no less. Wonder if they write such things with a straight face.

tricycle wrote:

taipan wrote:

Big Dog wrote:

taipan wrote:

Big Dog wrote:Interesting article:

LINK

What does Philippa York say?

this

I seem to recall him also getting nailed.

Testosterone, no less. Wonder if they write such things with a straight face.

Snigger

horace wrote:

Big Dog wrote:

horace wrote:

taipan wrote:

tricycle wrote:Froome cleared

The rules say he can compete so fark knows what this was all about.

Wheels on fire. Rollin down the road. Just notify his next of kin, Froomey's wheel shall explode.

Apols etc to Jools Driscoll, Brian Auger and the Trinity.

This was actually written by 'The Band'. Driscoll's version was just a cover.

Aye. Think Dylan also involved.

Nonetheless Driscoll made it her own.

Wish she had kept making music. Her version of Light my Fire 🔥 was definitive.

Dylan painted the album cover for 'Music from Big Pink' which was the album that featured Wheels on Fire. Album is being re-released this year to mark the 50th anniversary. (you might have guessed i'm a bit of a The Band fan )

Yeah baby. Hard to find a bad song.

RIP Rick Danko, the main writer.

Dylan did also contribute to the writing of this song although I don't think he was present when it was recorded.

Froome cleared to ride

Few more updates from the Froome case in recent days
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/i-made-terrible-blunder-says-drug-test-adviser-lxcnbrd8f

where the doctor whose research helped make the test says that it's flawed for cycling as it was based on swimming and he supported Petacchi as well as Froome.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/cycling/44694122

And this data from stage 19 in the Giro is bloody interesting.

But so much hullabaloo about the salbutamol... even McCullum returned an AAF recently.

A hectic opening stage marred by several crashes. Colombian wunderkind Fernando Gaviria stole the stage from Sagan & Kittel while Porte & Yates were held up by a pile up & Froome crashed (to much cheering from the locals) & Quintana had a mechanical to see them all way back in the field.

Another flat stage today will give little chance for the favorite GC riders to catch up.

Stage two followed a similar line to stage one with a crash splitting the peleton. Sagan won the sprint to the line to take both the yellow & green jersey's.
Team time trial today should help some GC riders get back some time.

How does a team time trial work?

They ride a time trial as teams, and they fifth rider's time is taken.

Always suits the stronger all round (i.e. richer) teams, a bit of a gimme for the likes of Sky, and US Postal in the old days. I remember all-climbing teams like Euskaltel used to take a real battering...

Geraint Thomas should be in yellow tonight, keeping it warm for his team-mate.

Ta.