TimoCycling wrote:
If everyone is saying Froome is doped, why not say that Quintana is doped aswell? or Horner?
The problem for me with Froome is that he is actively and aggressively propaganding the image of the clean cyclist when his performances clearly state otherwise. This image campaign starts with simple interviews or SKY general approach, puts itself into his social media stuff et cetera and ultimately ends in his autobiogrpahy The Climb and his Tour slogan "This is one yellow jersey that will stand the test of time."
See, of course the peloton isn't riding clean to 100%, and many of the top performers are likely dopers, riders that I personally like very much. Of course they deny it when they are asked. Everyone of them does. If they wanted to be honest to us, they wouldn't dope in the first place. But they don't go around, finger-pointing at everybody, blaming other poeple, profiting of other doped cyclists in order to praise their allegedly clean performance, and making money of their statements. They don't shout out that they are clean on a constant, almost weekly basis. Froome however is actively telling us we are stupid, in each statement of his and there are so many. The others at least have enough respect left in them to keep quiet and want to avoid the truth.
Edited by Shonak on 10-06-2014 13:37
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TimoCycling wrote:
True, but a rider is still at his best around 27-32. It's changing a bit with all these youngsters the last years though. I still find it almost just as abnormal as Froome's riding.
Again the 32 thing is only recently. 27 is a rider's physical peak in most cases, but everyone is different. Just look at Sagan, he has clearly hit his physical peak at a much younger age than most. Or if you want an extreme example of people getting worse with age, Merckx was slowing down in '74, at age 29.
Edit: Sort-of Zabel'd.
You have crystal ball Count?
Also i agree about Froome with shonak, i would just add his eytremely annoying and stupid girldriend, which does not add to his image much for me.
@Shonak: true, I'm not saying I have respect for him or anything, just saying he's not the only one doing abnormal things and we shouldn't disregard others just because they are more likeable.
ffs got to be in the 100s
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