lacticturkey wrote:
Seems legit aerobike wrote:
mungub50 wrote:
10 minutes behind men’s winner, Tim O, and 5 minutes behind Nils Frommhold. HAHAHAHA
7th overall. We’ve never seen anything like this before.
it's tough - on the one hand, i think we should just generally be skeptical (if not necessarily cynical) about super-dominant performances in sport these days, and this one in particular is way out beyond the margins. 20+ minutes on rinny? OK, she's still coming back into form, but this is a half, not a full. 5 minutes behind nils? how many second-tier male pros would she have beaten outright?
on the other hand, ryf generally doesn't raise the some of the usual red flags identified by joel filiol. she has a long history of results and has been pretty consistent. her coach is controversial but not for doping. her body composition seems like it's stayed pretty much the same for her career. sadly, i suspect if she came from a different country her results might get laughed out, though.
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