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    Shenanigans!!! I call Shenanigans!!

    No fucking way you can do that 2 days in a row. No fucking way.

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    @machpants said in Tour De France 2021:

    That was a fucking amazing performance by Pog. Aaaand the cops are investigating his team.

    They’re investigating Bahrain Victorious aren’t they, not UAE? (Colbrelli turning into a mountain goat , anyone?) Still, 2 days in a row Pogacar looks like he’s out riding to pick up the Sunday papers. I want to celebrate him as a cycling freak, but I can’t.

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    @scribe It's failing my "If it seems too good to be true it probably is" test.

    Haven't seen last night's stage yet, but Stage 17, some of the best riders in the world have fallen by the wayside and Tadej is then able to launch attack after attack.

    I guess that they're investigating Bahrain Victorious suggests that all is not well in the peloton. (As well as Colbrelli, I thought Caruso's performance in the Giro was well beyond what he'd shown before).

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    So Wout Van Aert did win the final sprint on the Champs-Élysées. And the hardest mountain stage 2x Ventoux. And a time trial. Competing in a peloton of highly, highly specialised elite riders.

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    @tewaio said in Tour De France 2021:

    So Wout Van Aert did win the final sprint on the Champs-Élysées. And the hardest mountain stage 2x Ventoux. And a time trial. Competing in a peloton of highly, highly specialised elite riders.

    so, shenanigans?

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    The optimist in me looks at the guys who were out injured who were expected to be winning the sprints or the whole thing and wonders if this might have been an unusually weak field. But the pessimist in looks at the past, and there's plenty of precedent for doping and not much for a guy demolishing everyone else just because the top couple of riders were out injured.

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    I don't know if anyone has seen this - it's old, but it's a speech by David Walsh from 2014 where he discusses his chase of Armstrong. I don't think there is anything new, but I don't think I've ever heard him explain it.

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    @gt12 fuck David Walsh. You listen to him and he's convinced he's the single person who bought this all down by himself. Egotistical wankstain. I ain't listening to him again

    And, as i have said before, great work on getting the ONLY guy in the peloton doping David, incredible investigative work

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    @mariner4life said in Tour De France 2021:

    @gt12 fuck David Walsh. You listen to him and he's convinced he's the single person who bought this all down by himself. Egotistical wankstain. I ain't listening to him again

    And, as i have said before, great work on getting the ONLY guy in the peloton doping David, incredible investigative work

    I'm not defending Lance in any way. But no wonder he is angry about being singled out. They are all juicing

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    There is a reason they didn't just then give the tours to the second placed rider.

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    https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/other-sports/126009079/george-bennett-leaving-jumbovisma-to-join-tour-de-france-champions

    I completely missed the news that George is leaving TJV to join Pogacar at UAE - and that Finn Fisher-Black is already there.

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