Cycling Pro Discussion 4: Transfers Everywhere, Vuelta & Beyond

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San Sebastian classic tomorrow, really like the race, it is like Il Lombardia but riders are actually in form. As none of the big 4 are there I am fully onboard the LANDISMO wagon!

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This year the added a RAMPAS INHUMANAS climb to 10 km from the line.
 
Vingegaard-Hansen = dropped. Is this why he is ducking classics??? Cant maintain form at all outside of few peaks?!

Basque separatists targeting my bike for using the spanish name for Donostia!
 
Someone please tell me how the third best climber of all time is unable to perform on climby classics?! It is not some god damn Flanders but proper climbs.
 


A revealing interview worth watching. Wiggins spent some time with Lance and Hincapie during the Tour as a guest on their podcast.
 
BangBang said:


A revealing interview worth watching. Wiggins spent some time with Lance and Hincapie during the Tour as a guest on their podcast.
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I only want to know about 3 things:

1. The Jiffy bags.
2. How a guy wins the tour and then his team doesn't let him ride another TdF
3. What did he mean by "I had to leave Garmin because they just weren't 'professional enough' "?.
 
therealdope said:
I only want to know about 3 things:

1. The Jiffy bags.
2. How a guy wins the tour and then his team doesn't let him ride another TdF
3. What did he mean by "I had to leave Garmin because they just weren't 'professional enough' "?.
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Harsh. Olympic champion and TDF winner or not, his story is one worth telling.

Drunkard father and professional cyclist.
Abandoned him as a child
Murdered and left in a ditch.

Reconnected with his father at one point (I think when he was 19) when he found out about Bradley cycling.

Father told him that he would never be as good as his old man

Lost contact again then found out he was murdered

Mother encouraged and pushed Bradley to train. (Hoping he would be better than his father)

Financially bankrupt. He explains why and the role of SKY

How his mental health has been kept from deteriorating by his professional cycling career and now that is over how he is still figuring out how to deal with his past.

What Lance is doing for him should be commended.

I don't have the answers to your questions and clearly you don't seem interested in the human story he has to tell. Whatever
 
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Harsh. Olympic champion and TDF winner or not, his story is one worth telling.

Drunkard father and professional cyclist.
Abandoned him as a child
Murdered and left in a ditch.

Reconnected with his father at one point (I think when he was 19) when he found out about Bradley cycling.

Father told him that he would never be as good as his old man

Lost contact again then found out he was murdered

Mother encouraged and pushed Bradley to train. (Hoping he would be better than his father)

Financially bankrupt. He explains why and the role of SKY

How his mental health has been kept from deteriorating by his professional cycling career and now that is over how he is still figuring out how to deal with his past.

What Lance is doing for him should be commended.

I don't have the answers to your questions and clearly you don't seem interested in the human story he has to tell. Whatever
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I've heard all of that before. Lance has a soft spot for dopers. they somehow justify his doping.

You know what causes depression, and even suicide in ex-cyclists? Doping. If it's not looking for answers in life (post cycling career) and always coming up with chemical solutions to life's problems, then it's accumulation of shame and/or having to lie about doping.

I know a lot of well adjusted ex-cyclists and they were all clean. I know of a lot of troubling cases and they are mostly guys that doped. FWIW - I know a 1980s track sprinter (running - he made 100m finals at the work championships and such, medaled in the 60m indoor WC) and he said all of the 1980s dopers in sprinting had trouble in their lives after retiring (in one form or another).

if you watch the ESPN 30-for-30 about the 100m final in the 1988 olympics, you'll see that the two well adjusted guys were Calvin Smith and Robson Da Silva. It's not a coincidence that they were the only two clean guys in the final.
 
There are so many cycling related things that Pharmstrong and Wiggins could have discussed.

I want to know what know what Wiggins was thinking in 2006 riding for Cofidis as the greatest track rider in history and getting his ass kicked in TdF TTs, then losing 25lbs and going much faster in TTs than he did as a recent track rider. That makes no sense. WTF? Fill in the blanks here Bradley.

What does he think about the young generation dominating? the days of the USPS/Sky train are done. Thoughts?
 
Vollering in yellow already, gonna be brutal at Alpe Huez
 
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